Since April 23rd I’ve had one sale on craigslist of the the Yamaha Receiver for $40. I bought it for $14.71 and made $25.29 in profit. This is another good flip for me and is 69% of the amount I started with at the beginning of the change jar flip experiment. This is such a win in my mind for taking a small amount and trying to build it into something bigger.

I took the total amount from that one flip and intentionally tried to roll into into one other item. I found a pair of shoes online which looked like I could have a good potential to make another 50% plus on the total amount. It is going to take a week or so for me to get the shoes and then I’ll get them listed online and see how long it takes to flip these pair of shoes. I paid $37.86 for the pair of shoes, and with at least a 50% profit margin on them I would end up with $56.79. If I can keep up this amount on the next successive item I can build the $14.71 into a pretty big amount fairly quickly.

I also picked up three other items: a Dyson vaccum cleaner, Christmas cookie jar, and Japanese doll. These three items totaled $27.94 in cost with the Dyson costing me $18.94. I got the Dyson by purchasing it online, like the shoes, but had to wait a while to be able to pick it up. I have listed it online at $75 on craigslist, and based on what I saw this puts me under the average price I’ve seen it sell at and it is about 50% of retail new. This is another good potential flip. The cookie jar and Japanese doll are both within my criteria to be able to double my money on the flips.

At this point I am $314.88 in inventory possible, with only $.53 uninvested. Again, I am really happy with what is going on with the small amount I started with and where I am at. I could pivot in a couple of directions and try to specialize in a certain type of item and just keep buying it over and over if I wanted. However, I am going to try and keep going up the cost amount to take my inventory to a higher and higher levels. The reason I feel this way is because I am not trying create a monthly income off of what I am doing.

If I had the goal of pulling out a certain amount a month I would take the first option and start buying the same type of item over and over with a known amount of gross margin. Then I would just continue building up the inventory amount, because I know I could sell those items so much it would be consistent.

This is what I did for years with books. I sold into the tens of thousands of books. It is something anyone can do with an item if you understand the market of what you are selling. It involves running an actual business, or side hustle. I enjoyed it for a long time, and liked the freedom of making a decent amount of money on the side.

Like I have said in other blog posts, if you continue to think you can build up something good from a small amount of money. I still read other people’s blogs to this day to discover other thoughts about effective ways to flip. Never stop learning and thinking.

Current Inventory

Item	Cost	Date Purchased	Sold	Profit
Ireland Puzzle	$3.45	6/27/22
NFL Puzzle	$2.37	6/27/22
Animal puzzle #1	$1.18	6/29/22
Animal puzzle #2	$1.18	6/29/22
3 Hole Punch	$1.18	6/29/22
Serving Dish and Bowl	$9.29	7/20/22
*Star Wars Puzzle	$2.37	7/25/22
Star Wars Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
*2 Coca Cola Puzzles	$6.91	9/13/22
*Christmas Coffee Cup	$1.18	9/13/22
*Stapler and Stapler remover	$.54	9/26/22
*Floral Plate	$2.71	9/26/22
*Old Spice Cologne bottle	$3.25	9/26/22
*Wood block set- kid’s toy	$2.17	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 1	$3.25	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 2	$4.33	9/26/22
*Satellite Puzzle	$2.37	11/28/22
*Tealight	$2.37	11/30/22
*Board Game	$3.78	1/4/23
*Painter’s puzzle	$3.78	1/30/23
*Roblox characters	$5.94	1/30/23
*New Hard Drive	$5.94	2/9/23
*Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1	$10.27	2/9/23
*Antique? vase	$8.11	2/21/23
*Teapot	$5.94	3/3/23
*Yamaha Receiver	$14.71	3/13/23	5/3/23	$25.29
*Antique Plates	$7.56	3/19/23
*Marriage book/game	$8.11	3/24/23
*Rollerblades	$16.77	4/1/23
*Granite Cutting Blades (6)	$48.65	4/4/23
*TI BA II Plus calculator	$5.94	4/5/23
*Airequipt slide projector	$11.46	4/10/23
*Crystal bowl	$5.94	4/10/23
*Perfume bottle	$8.11	4/10/23
*Traumlicht candle holder	$3.78	4/10/23
*BOSE Alarm Clock with remote	$32.99	4/11/23
*Japanese Doll	$2.70	4/24/23
*Christmas Cookie Jar	$5.99	4/24/23
*Dyson Vaccum	$18.94	4/24/23
*Pair of Shoes	$37.86	5/4/23
Underinvested	$.53
Total inventory amount	$314.88

I sold the Flower Vase for $46 in just over a week. I made a mistake on the amount of shipping I needed for it, but still ended up making as much money as the item I bought. The amount of profit on the flower vase was $16.07 in 9 days. This is another phenomenal flip for me because I’m able to go reinvest the money very quickly again.

I went out a couple of days after I sold the flower vase to try and find an item with the amount I had to get another double on what I have to reinvest. I found two potential good flips, one was a handheld steam cleaner and another was an older tape deck receiver.

I looked at the market for both of them and the tape deck was a very big potential flip for me. It costs $27.70, and I saw a couple that had sold for over $250. I took the tape deck home and tested it out. Unfortunately, it did not work properly.

In this scenario I can take it to get fixed, or return the item. I choose the second option because I don’t have any idea what it would cost me to get it fixed. I could have also figured out how to fix it. There is always a way to maximize the potential resell, if you want put in the time

However, I’m not looking to learn to fix it at this flip price point, or pay someone to fix, because I don’t think it’s worth the effort and money yet. It certainly could get to the point where it’s worth it for me to fix an item.

For example, if I could buy a guitar for $500 that sold for $1500, and needed $300 of repairs I would certainly do that. This may well happen as I continue to move along in my flipping journey.

After returning the item I need to reinvest $35.20 to be fully invested. I’m creeping up on a year of my changejarflip experiment and am excited to see where I’ll be in that amount of time.

I’ve been doing some thinking and research for where I’m going to try and focus moving forward with the thoughts of how I want to do this. My goals are to not grow the number of items I have in my inventory beyond what I currently have, and maximize the potential profit I’m making on the limited number of items I’ll have in my inventory. The is so much potential in this as I continue to move forward.

Current Inventory

Item	Cost	Date Purchased	Sold	Profit
Ireland Puzzle	$3.45	6/27/22
NFL Puzzle	$2.37	6/27/22
Animal puzzle #1	$1.18	6/29/22
Animal puzzle #2	$1.18	6/29/22
3 Hole Punch	$1.18	6/29/22
Serving Dish and Bowl	$9.29	7/20/22
*Star Wars Puzzle	$2.37	7/25/22
Star Wars Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
*2 Coca Cola Puzzles	$6.91	9/13/22
*Christmas Coffee Cup	$1.18	9/13/22
*Stapler and Stapler remover	$.54	9/26/22
*Floral Plate	$2.71	9/26/22
*Old Spice Cologne bottle	$3.25	9/26/22
*Wood block set- kid’s toy	$2.17	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 1	$3.25	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 2	$4.33	9/26/22
*Satellite Puzzle	$2.37	11/28/22
*Tealight	$2.37	11/30/22
*Board Game	$3.78	1/4/23
*Painter’s puzzle	$3.78	1/30/23
*Roblox characters	$5.94	1/30/23
*New Hard Drive	$5.94	2/9/23
*Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1	$10.27	2/9/23
*Antique? vase	$8.11	2/21/23
*Teapot	$5.94	3/3/23
*Yamaha Receiver	$14.71	3/13/23
*Antique Plates	$7.56	3/19/23
*Marriage book/game	$8.11	3/24/23
*Rollerblades	$16.77	4/1/23
*Granite Cutting Blades (6)	$48.65	4/4/23
*TI BA II Plus calculator	$5.94	4/5/23
*Flower vase	$13.52	4/5/23	4/14/23	$16.07
*Airequipt slide projector	$11.46	4/10/23
*Crystal bowl	$5.94	4/10/23
*Perfume bottle	$8.11	4/10/23
*Traumlicht candle holder	$3.78	4/10/23
*BOSE Alarm Clock with remote	$32.99	4/11/23
*Tape Deck-Returned	$0	4/17/23	4/19/23	$0
Underinvested	$35.20
Total inventory amount	$293.37

I have taken the time to get myself almost fully invested again with inventory. I bought eight separate items, with one of them having six of the same item.

The first item bought was a granite cutting blade and I found six of them, brand new. I paid a total of $48.65 for the six of them, or $8.11 each. These type of blades retail for over $50 new online. When all six of these sell it could turn into $200 profit from them alone. I continue to find great deals at Goodwill, and this one will hopefully not dissappoint as they are sold.

The next item I got was a TI BA II plus calculator for $5.94. I bought this because I have used this type of calculator since college and they are really great for what they do. As well, it looked like I could make around 50% on my money on this flip and there were a decent amount of them sold recently.

On the same visit there was a floral, gold looking vase I picked up. It is an interesting looking vase and I found a match for it on the manufacturer’s website for $70 retail. I bought it for $13.52, or 20% of retail, which has worked out for me based on percentages many times. I have found if I can buy for under 25% of retail the majority of the time I will be able sell an item an make money. I can normally list it for 50% of retail and get a sale out of it. This is not always the case, but with something in very good condition as long as the market is not flooded it is a fairly safe flip.

The fourth item I bought was a slide projector for $11.46. I have never flipped a projector before, but looking online some of this brand, Airequipt, sale for over $60, if they work properly. This is another good potential flip for me and could bring in over $35 in profit, when it sales.

The fifth and sixth items I bought were on a hunch they could be worth enough to make them flips. I normally like to be able to confirm my flips are going to be reasonable when I buy them, because it reduces the amount of risk I am taking. Every once in a while though I will buy without researching to see if I can select something purely off of a hunch. At this point in flipping as many items as I have since I started I wanted to see if I could pick a couple which would make money. I won’t do this often, but a large part of what I am doing at this point is making sure I am enjoying flipping items. I did research on them once I had time and the first one was a perfume bottle I paid $8.11 for, and the second is a crystal bowl with inlaid red designs I paid $5.94 for. I have both of them listed to be able to double my money on them. I don’t know the manufacturer for them and I will see what happens. Based on my research I have a better chance of making more on the bowl than the perfume bottle.

The seventh item was a candle holder by the same manufacturer I have bought in changejarflip.com and knew the range of amounts they sell for. I paid $3.78 and have it price to double my money. It is a Traumlicht candle holder.

The last item is a BOSE alarm clock which sales for over $125 online used. I had to buy a remote to go with it and am waiting for it so I can sell the parts of it all together. I spent $32.99 for the BOSE and remote. I’ve never bought the additional parts for something like this before, but had no way to tell if it worked without one. If it does not function properly I can still sell it and make a little bit of profit either way. If it does work I can turn my $33 into over $100.

I am underinvested by $5.61 currently and am not going to go look for more items till something else sales. I like to be able to have at least $20 to reinvest each time at this point in case I find a higher cost item to flip. As well, the number of items in my inventory is about as large as I want it to be. I have 38 items for sale right now and don’t want to get anymore. I just don’t want to end up having things I am selling take up a bunch of space.

Current Inventory

Item	Cost	Date Purchased	Sold	Profit
Ireland Puzzle	$3.45	6/27/22
NFL Puzzle	$2.37	6/27/22
Animal puzzle #1	$1.18	6/29/22
Animal puzzle #2	$1.18	6/29/22
3 Hole Punch	$1.18	6/29/22
Serving Dish and Bowl	$9.29	7/20/22
*Star Wars Puzzle	$2.37	7/25/22
Star Wars Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
*2 Coca Cola Puzzles	$6.91	9/13/22
*Christmas Coffee Cup	$1.18	9/13/22
*Stapler and Stapler remover	$.54	9/26/22
*Floral Plate	$2.71	9/26/22
*Old Spice Cologne bottle	$3.25	9/26/22
*Wood block set- kid’s toy	$2.17	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 1	$3.25	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 2	$4.33	9/26/22
*Satellite Puzzle	$2.37	11/28/22
*Tealight	$2.37	11/30/22
*Board Game	$3.78	1/4/23
*Painter’s puzzle	$3.78	1/30/23
*Roblox characters	$5.94	1/30/23
*New Hard Drive	$5.94	2/9/23
*Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1	$10.27	2/9/23
*Antique? vase	$8.11	2/21/23
*Teapot	$5.94	3/3/23
*Yamaha Receiver	$14.71	3/13/23
*Antique Plates	$7.56	3/19/23
*Marriage book/game	$8.11	3/24/23
*Rollerblades	$16.77	4/1/23
*Granite Cutting Blades (6)	$48.65	4/4/23
*TI BA II Plus calculator	$5.94	4/5/23
*Flower vase	$13.52	4/5/23
*Airequipt slide projector	$11.46	4/10/23
*Crystal bowl	$5.94	4/10/23
*Perfume bottle	$8.11	4/10/23
*Traumlicht candle holder	$3.78	4/10/23
*BOSE Alarm Clock with remote	$32.99	4/11/23
Underinvested	$5.61
Total inventory amount	$277.30

Since my last update I have bought three more items and sold four items. I have bought two decorative plates which appear to be antiques, after I did research on them. I bought them for a total of $7.56 and others have sold for around $80 each online. I currently have them listed at $145 for both, which could end up turning into my largest flip in changejarflip to this point. I continue to be amazed by the high dollar value of some of the items I am finding in my local Goodwill. I will say Goodwill has been a real eye opener for me on low cost items I did not expect with such high value, at times. It has given me the gambit of items to buy to be able to build up the inventory amount.

The second item I purchased was a marriage advice game and book combo. I paid $8.11 for this item and it looks like I can make 60% on the amount I have put into it. This one is a little below where I would like to be selling inventory items, but I have not been dedicating much time to finding items and thought this was a good one to keep things going with the money I need to reinvest.

The third item I purchased was a set of roller blades. I paid $16.77 with the expectation to be able to double my money on them. This is another good flip, and I found them in less then five minutes in Goodwill. My whole thing right now is to be able to find items in a short amount of time to keep the overall amount of effort involved in this low and show just how much can be earned with minimal effort.

When I view this from an hourly rate on what I have been buying lately, and the expected returns I am getting well over $20 an hour which will should continue to grow my initial investment well for a long time. I break the hourly in the following way. It takes me at most 10 minutes to find an item, and I am looking to make at least $10 on them in average now. It will then take me less than five minutes to get it online and less than five minutes to package it up and drop it off. All said and done I should be 20 minutes or less on each item I end up flipping. At $10 profit an item I should easily make $20 an hour or more.

Sales for this period

I sold the Iowa puzzle, Butter tray, DVD, and the 2 Hot Wheels all this past week between 3/31 to 4/2/23.

The Butter tray I bought for $10.27 and ended up making $13.24 of profit from it. This was another very quick buy and flip situation with me having bought it on March 8th and selling it on March 31st. This type of flip is what I am trying to focus on moving forward for a while.

The Iowa puzzle was a very small loser for me. I paid $1.18 for it and lost $.05 when all the shipping and fees were done. I am ok with this loss at this point, because the puzzles helped me get this experiment going they are no longer the driver I need to continue to grow my overall inventory value. As well, a $.05 loss on the $1.18 makes me know I have my shipping costs estimated fairly well moving forward. I have reduced the price down on many of my initial items to try and get them to move so I don’t have to deal with making smaller amounts of profit as much, and can move into the higher priced items.

The DVD was another expected fast flip for me, or I would have not bought it, and it did not disappoint in the speed. I bought it on March 1st for $2.15 and sold it on March 31st and made $2.09 profit. An almost doubling of my amount I put into it is always the result I am looking for on the lower amount flips at the minimum.

The 2 Hot Wheels were bought on August 3rd of last year for $2.10 and sold on April 2nd making me $1.70 of profit. At the time I bought these in a grocery store to show you can find items to flip in almost any type of store, and this proves my point in a simple way. I made 81% on my money in eight months. An annual return would work out to over 100% in 12 months.

I know have made over $240 in profit since I started at the end of last June. I will be at a year in the next couple of months and want to have the $136.58 I need to reinvest back into items so I can see how much can be done in one year. I am still very happy with how this has went.

Current Inventory

Item	Cost	Date Purchased	Sold	Profit
Ireland Puzzle	$3.45	6/27/22
NFL Puzzle	$2.37	6/27/22
Animal puzzle #1	$1.18	6/29/22
Animal puzzle #2	$1.18	6/29/22
Iowa Puzzle	$1.18	6/29/22	3/31/23	-$.05
3 Hole Punch	$1.18	6/29/22
Serving Dish and Bowl	$9.29	7/20/22
*Star Wars Puzzle	$2.37	7/25/22
*2 Hot Wheels	$2.10	8/3/22	4/2/23	$1.70
Star Wars Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
*2 Coca Cola Puzzles	$6.91	9/13/22
*Christmas Coffee Cup	$1.18	9/13/22
*Stapler and Stapler remover	$.54	9/26/22
*Floral Plate	$2.71	9/26/22
*Old Spice Cologne bottle	$3.25	9/26/22
*Wood block set- kid’s toy	$2.17	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 1	$3.25	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 2	$4.33	9/26/22
*Satellite Puzzle	$2.37	11/28/22
*Tealight	$2.37	11/30/22
*Board Game	$3.78	1/4/23
*Painter’s puzzle	$3.78	1/30/23
*Roblox characters	$5.94	1/30/23
*New Hard Drive	$5.94	2/9/23
*Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1	$10.27	2/9/23
*Antique? vase	$8.11	2/21/23
*DVD	$2.15	3/1/23	3/31/23	$2.09
*Teapot	$5.94	3/3/23
*Butter tray	$10.27	3/8/23	3/31/23	$13.24
*Yamaha Receiver	$14.71	3/13/23
*Antique Plates	$7.56	3/19/23
*Marriage book/game	$8.11	3/24/23
*Rollerblades	$16.77	4/1/23
Underinvested	$136.58
Total inventory amount	$260.89

I sold the coffee maker I purchased recently for $89.99 on March 12th. After all the shipping and fees I ended up making almost $40 on this flip. With this flip it puts me having made over $200 since I started flipping my change jar coins at the end of June of last year.

I’m pretty amazed I was able to make this amount of profit this quickly. I thought I might be able to make double my initial amount in a year and have turned the amount I had into over $100 in inventory with me buying the items I did initially to get all invested. The first sales I had really helped to grow the amount and the first big profit off of the coffee grinder has made this easier to make more moving forward and some good luck along the way is definitely working together.

I have not been able to get all the profit reinvested back into items at this point. I purchased a metal cupcake tray, a butter tray, and another receiver. Just like the coffee grinder, I got a bid the first day the cupcake tray went live online. I ended up selling it on March 17th for $21.24 and made $5.60 of profit from it. I paid $10.27 for it and made over 50% in just eight days. The speed at which items are selling has been something I haven’t expected. I thought I would be selling around one item a month but I am getting close to one item a week. In the month of March I’ve sold five items already.

I ended up also selling two other items since my last update. I sold the book one, two, three infinity and the snowglobe. I ended up only making $.02 on the book, because I had the amount of fees off as a percentage I was required to pay on a book. My previous experience of flipping books has taught me books are a way you can go, but the market is much tougher for these now than when I was selling them. I won’t likely sell any more books, because the margins are going to be too low and I need to invest too much now.

I sold the snowglobe for $28.00 plus shipping. Once everything was all calculated I ended up making $18.17 of profit on this. The snowglobe ends up being a very good flip with me having bought it for $3.45. I made 5.26 times my initial money in profit in just over four months. Rough math for annual return would be 5.26 times 3 for 15 times the amount invested which would be over $50. This shows again how starting with a small amount can turn into something much bigger.

I need to reinvest $136.22 to have all the profit I’ve made in inventory to flip. This would put me at $260.89 of inventory. My current profit is at $224.51 and I am going to try to see if I can do some very quick flips through craigslist to push the total amount to $500 as fast as possible. I don’t know how this will go, but I’m interested to see what will happen. The first receiver I sold on craigslist showed me there is a lot of possibilites in quick flips on it.

Current Inventory

Item	Cost	Date Purchased	Sold	Profit
Ireland Puzzle	$3.45	6/27/22
NFL Puzzle	$2.37	6/27/22
Animal puzzle #1	$1.18	6/29/22
Animal puzzle #2	$1.18	6/29/22
Iowa Puzzle	$1.18	6/29/22
3 Hole Punch	$1.18	6/29/22
Serving Dish and Bowl	$9.29	7/20/22
*Star Wars Puzzle	$2.37	7/25/22
*2 Hot Wheels	$2.10	8/3/22
Star Wars Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
Animal Puzzle	$1.18	8/31/22
*2 Coca Cola Puzzles	$6.91	9/13/22
*Christmas Coffee Cup	$1.18	9/13/22
*Stapler and Stapler remover	$.54	9/26/22
*Floral Plate	$2.71	9/26/22
*Old Spice Cologne bottle	$3.25	9/26/22
*Wood block set- kid’s toy	$2.17	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 1	$3.25	9/26/22
*Japanese Stein 2	$4.33	9/26/22
*One, two, three infinity	$1.07	10/19/22	3/7/23	$.02
*Satellite Puzzle	$2.37	11/28/22
*Snowglobe	$3.45	11/30/22	3/17/23	$18.17
*Tealight	$2.37	11/30/22
*Board Game	$3.78	1/4/23
*Painter’s puzzle	$3.78	1/30/23
*Roblox characters	$5.94	1/30/23
*New Hard Drive	$5.94	2/9/23
*Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1	$10.27	2/9/23
*Antique? vase	$8.11	2/21/23
*DVD	$2.15	3/1/23
*Coffee Maker	$7.35	3/3/23	3/12/23	$39.85
*Teapot	$5.94	3/3/23
*Butter tray	$10.27	3/8/23
*Cupcake tray	$10.27	3/9/23	3/17/23	$5.60
*Yamaha Receiver	$14.71	3/13/23
Underinvested	$136.33
Total inventory amount	$260.89