My wife delivered our son back in August, at which time she left her job to stay home full-time with him. We planned the pregnancy, and planned for the loss of income.
The bills are all getting paid, but we are chronically short on money for other things like groceries and other everyday expenses. We always figure something out, but we are dipping into savings and charging more things on the credit card to get by, which I don't feel is a sustainable way to go on.
I have been looking for the past 3 months for a part time job (My full time job is from 7am to 5pm.) I know my availability isn't great for retail-type places, but I can't even get a job unloading trucks or stocking shelves at 24-hour places. I have applied to literally every business around here, and nothing.
If I could make around 500-600 extra dollars a month, it would help tremendously. I am thinking about doing something on my own to make money, since I can't seem to find a 2nd job right now.
From July 2012 to July 2014, I was selling used auto parts on Ebay. We have several junkyards within 2 hours of here, and I would pull parts, clean them up, and sell on Ebay. I would mostly sell small interior pieces, like gloveboxes, ashtrays, console lids, things like that. I stayed away from electronic items because I don't know how to test them, and I don't want to get into selling and returning defective electronic parts.
Most of the cars and trucks in these yards are from the 1990's and early 2000's.
I stopped doing because I was netting around $100 per month, which really wasn't worth the time of 8+ hours on a Sunday driving and collecting parts, and then another night during the week out in the shed cleaning, photographing, and boxing parts and then listing them.
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The bills are all getting paid, but we are chronically short on money for other things like groceries and other everyday expenses. We always figure something out, but we are dipping into savings and charging more things on the credit card to get by, which I don't feel is a sustainable way to go on.
I have been looking for the past 3 months for a part time job (My full time job is from 7am to 5pm.) I know my availability isn't great for retail-type places, but I can't even get a job unloading trucks or stocking shelves at 24-hour places. I have applied to literally every business around here, and nothing.
If I could make around 500-600 extra dollars a month, it would help tremendously. I am thinking about doing something on my own to make money, since I can't seem to find a 2nd job right now.
From July 2012 to July 2014, I was selling used auto parts on Ebay. We have several junkyards within 2 hours of here, and I would pull parts, clean them up, and sell on Ebay. I would mostly sell small interior pieces, like gloveboxes, ashtrays, console lids, things like that. I stayed away from electronic items because I don't know how to test them, and I don't want to get into selling and returning defective electronic parts.
Most of the cars and trucks in these yards are from the 1990's and early 2000's.
I stopped doing because I was netting around $100 per month, which really wasn't worth the time of 8+ hours on a Sunday driving and collecting parts, and then another night during the week out in the shed cleaning, photographing, and boxing parts and then listing them.
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