New challenge - start making money with 0 funds - 3

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Hello,

I planned to save a day for this challenge. Due to my job, that requires a lot of travelling, I could not make it.

I see today some real good stuff today on ebay-kleinanzeigen and will contact some people which are close to me. I can only go by foot as this is the purpose of my challenge, to start from scratch with 0 resources. When I will use the car, I will need to deduct the gas I use for the trip.

This is for me kind of a hurdle as there are some good offers in the very rich neighborhoods, but they are 4-5 km away and I don't want to walk so long on this cold. Well, when I will have more money I will go with the car and pick things there up as they would be an easy flip.

We are not like in the US, where @steemmatt finds all the good stuff for flipping on the street. Here are strict rules and littering stuff like this is kind of expensive. I prefer the European way, as it is organised, but it makes harder to hustle. Well people offer things for free as getting rid of them is much more expensive if they bring it to the recycling center.

Every region has to be learned with it's specific case.

I did clean the baby chair this week. It was tremendous dirty with crumbs of oiled bread in the screw thread. It looks better now, but it is missing a cord, which I'm searching for or need to rebuild. This will cost something, so I save some money or search for free material.

As I was away for 5 days this week, I did not do a research on free stuff. I did some other small flips, because my wife searches for toys like bobby cars and we buy them at a decent price, clean them, do some good photos and place them online with a good markup but not the highest available, just to flip them fast.My son plays with them and when we have buyer we sell them. With this method we can cover the cost of his diapers.

This week I did two cleaning runs around the block. We have some guys in the area that drink in the parking lot and litter their red bull cans on the floor. I did not see them, as I would say to them to pick up their trash. I did pick up two big Ikea bags of plastics and 10 cans and plastic bottles that I brought back to the store for 2.5 €.

That makes my available budget of 4 €. The cleaning of the chair took me 15 minutes and the two runs 35. It is not a decent hourly wage, but it can show that one can make some money starting with nothing.

The simple advice I can give you is to know your area and market. What people buy and try to aim to get them for free or a much lower price.