April 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Thrifting isn't just about stretching your budget – it's a legitimate way to generate extra income with minimal time investment. We explore how to turn other people's castoffs into your cash flow with experts Betty and Johnny Manella from the Fellowship Center.
• Developing an eye for valuable items – look for quality materials, weight, and craftsmanship
• Starting with items already in your home – if you bought it once, someone else probably wants it
• Using Google Lens to quickly identify potential treasures and determine market values
• Finding niche markets like vintage clothing or specialty collectibles
• Creating effective eBay listings with detailed photos and descriptions
• Recognizing authentic designer items versus counterfeits
• Moving inventory quickly by setting competitive prices rather than holding out for maximum profit
• Success stories including a $2 teapot that sold for over $250
• Unexpected sources for resellable items – from grandparents' attics to neighborhood curbsides
If you're ready to make income from thrifting, start small and experiment. Begin with items around your house, research prices first, and use tools like Google Lens to help set the right price. You can definitely make income from doing it – drop us a line if this episode helps you get into the market!
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Emcee (00:02):
Welcome to Money Matters, the podcast that focuses on how
to use the money you have, makethe money you need and save the
money you want.
Now here is your host, ms KimChapman.
Kim Chapman (00:14):
We're going to be talking about how to generate
some income from thrifting.
So this is part two.
We already did one episodewhere, hey, you can thrift to
stretch your budget.
Instead of going and buying thename brand items for $50, $100
in the.
Hey, you can thrift to stretchyour budget.
Instead of going and buy thename brand items for $50, $100
in a store, you can get themgently used or sometimes brand
new at a thrift store.
So if you just need to stretchthe budget that was another
(00:36):
episode Today sometimes you needextra income.
When I see clients they're likehow can I make extra income?
I don't have time for extra job, but that's okay, you can sell
stuff.
People do this all the time.
Coming back or joining us againis Betty.
Basically, when she's not atneighbors, she's thrifting.
Right, she is thrifting and shehas turned me on to the ideal
(00:59):
in the world of thrifting,showing how you can stretch your
dollar, but also how you canbuy something for pennies on the
dollar and then turn around andsell it and make income.
But we also have another expertwith us, mr Johnny Manella, and
he's with the Fellowship Centerout in Gonzales.
It's a thrift store and so he'sthat expert that gets those
things in that you know peopledonate anything.
(01:20):
That's trash but it really is atreasure.
So welcome guys hey.
Betty Mujica-Milano (01:25):
Kate Good morning.
Kim Chapman (01:32):
This is going to be fun, because Betty dragged me
all over the city.
We went to all types of thriftstores, garage sales, estate
sales to find some really goodstuff at a really, really cheap
price.
And then she turned around andput it on.
Was it eBay, betty?
Yep, ebay On eBay.
And she's going to tell youthroughout this episode how much
it cost her when she bought itand then how much money she made
.
So I mean, who doesn't needextra income?
(01:53):
And it didn't really seem likea lot of work.
I mean, you go shopping, hey, Ilike to shop, you like to shop,
right, you go shopping, pick upa couple of things for pennies
and then stick it online andthen somebody wants to buy it.
So we're going to go ahead andget started.
So, johnny, tell us about whatyou do at the Fellowship Center.
Betty Mujica-Milano (02:12):
So I am the manager of the Fellowship
Center here in Gonzales and weaccept donations of all types,
mostly clothing types, mostlyclothing, but you name it, we
pretty much get it, and so webasically sell it, obviously,
(02:35):
and all of the proceeds that arefrom our sales go back into our
community in the form offinancial assistance in addition
to our food pantry.
Kim Chapman (02:40):
So tell us a little bit about what you actually do
in terms of your role, taking inthat merchandise and being able
to price it and put it out onthe shelves.
Betty Mujica-Milano (02:48):
Okay.
So we do have two people thatwork in our warehouse and they
take in all of the goods that weget, again mostly clothing.
So for clothing we have sortersthat sort it by gender, by
sizes, by types, by seasons andso forth, and then we price it.
We started using pricingmethods where we tag at certain
(03:10):
colors to make it a little biteasier.
So things may be $3, $4, and $5, and that tag is a certain
color, and so we've gotten wherewe're using that more to be a
little bit more efficient.
For your knickknacks and moredecorative home decor things,
which I kind of focus more of myattention on, I just sort of go
through them.
(03:30):
If I think they are of value,or if others see them and think
they're of value, we put them tothe side and then I do research
through Google, Lens, eBay, andthen we go pricing from there
and we set things up from there.
Kim Chapman (03:44):
Cool.
So, benny, as you said theprevious episode, you've been
thrifting for quite a minute,but tell us how long have you
been thrifting for income?
Did you start off just doing itto stretch your dollar or did
you start off doing it for theincome?
Johnny Manela (03:58):
I started thrifting for fun when I was a
teenager like I said in the lastepisode that you should go
watch when I was a teenager likeI said in the last episode that
you should go watch but only inthe last couple of years have I
actually started thrifting, orthrifting to sell the items.
And actually really during thepandemic, I couldn't go
thrifting, so I started going oneBay and I started purchasing
(04:18):
things on eBay during during thepandemic and then, probably
after my daughter was born in2021, 2022, I started realizing
that I had too much stuff andthat I had thrifted and I needed
to figure out a way to get ridof it.
Kim Chapman (04:36):
And I thought so I'm going to stop you right
there because I know if you'relistening everybody listening.
We have stuff that we boughtthat seemed like a good idea at
the time, but it's over in thecorner.
Maybe it never even made it outof the box.
So you may think why am I evenlistening to this?
Because it's you.
You have some stuff that maybeyou can actually turn around and
sell.
You may not even need to go tothe thrift store.
(04:57):
You may just need to listen toBetty and figure out how you can
turn that stuff, that wastedspace, into income.
Johnny Manela (05:08):
Okay, Betty, let's roll Absolutely Well, and
I'm glad you mentioned that,because I didn't start by going
to thrift stores and findingthings to resell.
I actually started by lookingthrough my own house and
reselling things in my own house, and usually when people find
out that I will sell stuff oneBay or whatever, that's the
first thing I tell them.
I say don't go spend any moremoney on doing it Like, learn
how to do it via selling stuffthat you have in your house that
(05:29):
you're not using and you know.
I like to say like if youbought it at some point,
somebody would probably buy itfrom you, you know, and you kind
of never know.
You really kind of never knowwhat's going to actually sell
quickly and what's going toactually make you a decent
amount of money.
So definitely shop your housefirst if you're interested in
getting into reselling online.
Kim Chapman (05:51):
So, johnny, tell us a little bit more about what
goes into the process ofactually pricing an item,
because I imagine we've bothbeen to the Fellowship Center.
You get there's a warehousewith tons of stuff.
I mean my eyes are just like,oh my God, I'd be overwhelmed.
So what is that process likebeing able to look at something?
I mean, is it just somethingyou can look at and say, ok,
(06:12):
this is valuable, put it overhere.
This is, you know, not thatvaluable, let's put it over
there.
Or do you have to really kindof go through each and every
item?
Do you have an eye for it?
Betty Mujica-Milano (06:25):
Well, great question.
So I do sort of have an eye forthings.
My wife and I are avidcollectors, have an art
collection, personal artcollection, and then I do watch
a lot of YouTube videos and ofcourse everybody has seen
American Pickers, which probablyeverybody started looking at
that, and so I was able to beginassessing values through that.
So when I initially was hiredto the store that was, my job
was to do a lot of the homedecor.
As I mentioned, the clothing iskind of set priced, you know,
(06:47):
and so that's easy, you know, wejust kind of sort it by there.
But for things like home decorI just get a sense of, hey, that
looks valuable, or, and then mystaff has begun to kind of
notice that too, and so we'llput that to the side, and things
surprise me all the time.
So, like the other day, we gotthis mirror and I call it the
monkey mirror, and I knew it hadsome value to it.
(07:09):
It was heavy, it just lookedvery well made.
I have an interior designdegree, so I sort of have an eye
for all of that as well, and soI cleaned it all up and so
forth and it's on eBay for $395.
And we're selling it for $50.
Wow.
So it's amazing the things thatyou find.
But typically if it's heavy it'svery intricate and of course
(07:32):
there are certain brands thatyou know, like Lennox and
Wedgwood and Waterford, thosetype of brands you automatically
know.
Oh, those typically have alittle bit higher value, but
higher value.
And so I kind of learned fromthere, just from practice and
going to estate sales andwatching a lot of YouTube videos
of pickers and so forth who dokind of like Betty does, who do
it more full time, and so I'velearned about different things
(07:55):
and so it's interesting.
I mean, who would have thoughtthat monkey mirror that I put on
to a text message to our group?
I said, look at this monkeymirror.
Everybody said, oh, I hate it,and I'm like, oh, it's $3.95 on
eBay.
Kim Chapman (08:07):
Wow, wow.
And it really is an eye,because when Betty and I started
this journey, I was like alittle kid in a candy store and
I was like, hey, is this worthsomething?
She'd be like, nope, what aboutthis?
Nope, you tiny, definitely not,because it was heavy.
If it just looked pretty and alot of those things that I
showed her, it was like thumbsdown, oh, maybe four, five, six,
(08:28):
eight, I don't know.
Weeks in, I finally startedbringing stuff in or bringing it
to her and she's like, yeah,you're kind of catching it.
So, betty, what is yourstrategy?
You know, what tips can yougive to somebody if they are
going to go out thrifting, or ifthey're actually looking at
stuff in their house, or maybeeven grandma's house?
Right, what should they belooking for?
Johnny Manela (08:47):
So I completely agree with you.
I think it's really aboutmaterials, it's about the weight
of something you know, and itis hard because it's like you
develop an eye over time.
I've been thrifting since I waslike 14, 15 years old.
You know, at a certain point itjust becomes like second nature
, like an instinct of like oh,this fabric is good, this
(09:08):
fabric's cheap.
You know, you get a sense.
But you know, a lot of times Ithink even moving away from like
, the idea of like somethingthat's worth a lot of money, is
really looking at somethingthat's niche.
So thinking about a customer,that is niche.
So I actually find that mythings that sell best for me on
(09:28):
eBay is when I sell my husband'sold clothes, the clothes he
doesn't fit anymore.
I can sell a pair of JCrucinoson eBay.
Lickety split because that isthe type of person who's just
buying their pants on eBay issome random 30 to 40 year old
man who's like I don't want togo to the store and I don't want
to pay full price.
Oh, this is my size of JakeCruchino's, I'll buy it.
(09:51):
So I find that if I'm at thethrift store and I find a pair
of like golf shorts or athleticshorts for men right, those go
off the shelves quickly.
So I think thinking about whois actually shopping on eBay and
what are they looking for.
Another thing that I really liketo look for is vintage dresses.
(10:12):
Vintage dresses always go wellon eBay because, much like me,
during the pandemic, I wasbuying a bunch of vintage
clothing on eBay.
So now, in turn, I go to thriftstores.
I can buy a long vintage gownfor like $5 and I can go ahead
and sell it on eBay for $35 to$40.
So it's really thinking aboutlike who's actually online
(10:34):
shopping for this stuff andreally finding items that cater
to those people.
Kim Chapman (10:38):
So I got a question .
Clearly, if I brought in apainting of the Mona Lisa, you'd
look and laugh because you knowI didn't have that, I didn't
own that.
But how do you develop an eyeto detect if something is
authentic, if it's real or not?
Especially, you know there's abillion dollar industry in terms
of tennis shoes, especiallythings like Air Jordans not
Nike's, whatever they may be andso you see all the time in the
(11:01):
news sometimes somebody buyssomething they thought it was
worth $500 and really it's justa $3 pair tennis shoe.
So how can you determine ifit's something that's authentic
or not?
Betty Mujica-Milano (11:12):
Well, I know one of the things that we
get a lot of and I'm definitelynot an expert in is coach bags
and other designer handbags.
We get coach bags like crazywhich I have staff members that
go through those and 99.99% ofthem are not real.
We had a Jimmy Choo handbag Ihave staff members that go
through those and 99.99% of themare not real.
We had a Jimmy Choo handbag andI could tell, not knowing
(11:32):
anything, but it was wrapped inplastic.
Well, I would assume thatsomebody of that designer brand
I know that that's more of ashoemaker, at least that's what
I know that would never be a$1,000 bag or whatever.
It would be a, you know, athousand dollar bag or whatever
it would be.
We do get a lot of Jordans andwe are, again, not experts on
(11:52):
those as far as that but I dohave somebody that kind of looks
at them and says, yeah, that'sreal and that kind of thing.
But I have Jordans that thatthey're in the showcase for two
hundred dollars but they'reworth seven, eight, nine hundred
bucks based on eBay prices.
Kim Chapman (12:05):
So, betty, what do you find?
You know, what are the clues?
If you're looking for somethingand, like you say, you might
use Google Lens, and if this isauthentic, then hey, it's worth,
worth a lot of money, how canyou ensure that, if you're going
to put something online andyou're selling it as something
authentic, that it is?
I mean, can you look at thestitching?
I know, like with scams, welook for misspelled letters and
(12:26):
things.
What are the type, what are thered flags that you can look for
that says this is not authentic?
Johnny Manela (12:31):
Yeah.
So I think a lot of you know,obviously the internet has a
wealth of resources.
So you know, one of the greatthings is, if it's a clothing
piece, a clothing item, you canactually go online and compare
tags.
So there'll be like websiteswhere you can look at all of the
tags, like, let's say, you finda Chanel dress at the thrift
(12:53):
store.
Never happened to me, stillpraying for it to happen Anytime
, it would be great, godthrowing that one up to you but
you can actually go online andsay Chanel clothing tags and
there will be, like there's agosh, I wish I could remember
the name of it but there's awebsite that has every tag that
a designer has ever used intheir clothing.
(13:14):
So you can basically go throughand compare and see if any of
those tags match up to what youhave.
Most likely, you it's likeagain, though you can kind of
tell.
It's like you can tell and Ithink people you know don't
often follow their instinct Withanything, but it's like you can
tell, you can feel it and justknow it's of quality.
(13:37):
Stitching is a huge thing.
If, like it's a logo bag let'ssay it's a Louis Vuitton bag
they, they painstakingly matchup like logos.
So if it's an entire logo bagand there's kind of like a
mismatch of the logos, a bigdesigner brand would never do
that because they're sellingquality.
And then another great thing isthere are authentic
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authentication services so youcan actually bring your stuff to
an authentic authenticator toget authenticated, and then eBay
actually offers authenticationas well.
So if you do have a designerbag that's worth a lot of money
that you want to sell, you canactually send it into eBay and
(14:19):
they will authenticate it foryou.
And then when you're selling iton eBay, it'll say there's an
authenticity guarantee.
And then there's also websiteslike the real real, which I do a
little bit of selling on theretoo, and that's exclusively
designer items.
So if you have something thatyou purchased has the dust bag
still all that stuff.
I have a friend who actuallyhad a Prada bag that she
(14:42):
purchased.
She was in Italy, she purchasedit for a couple thousand
dollars and she resold it on thereal world because she was like
you know what?
I don't really have a use forthis, I need the cash instead,
and so you can send it in.
But those typically have ahigher fee.
Kim Chapman (14:56):
All right.
So we know, in this day and age, scammers rule.
They're out there everywhere.
So, whether you're the buyer orthe seller, how can you protect
yourself online?
Betty Mujica-Milano (15:08):
Well, I think, as Betty said, you've got
to be educated.
With the Internet out there,you can find out so much more
than you ever could years andyears ago.
I can't imagine doing my jobTen years ago when you sort of
had to guess what things werelike.
We get a lot of crystalline andthings that just feel much
heavier.
For instance, I found adecanter that we had come to be.
(15:29):
It was a Waterford decanter,and so without and I had to
really really look for theWaterford logo, and I finally
did find it, but without havingeBay and be able to match up
things or Google Lens, the jobwould be much more challenging.
Kim Chapman (15:46):
And so I know, of course you know this is a brick
and mortar facility, afellowship center, but do you do
things online?
Can I shop online to find yourmerchandise?
Betty Mujica-Mila (15:54):
Unfortunately not.
We're just not set up for thatdue to the number of staff
members and volunteers that wehave.
Now we do put a lot of thingson Facebook.
I run our social media page.
Our membership, since I've beenthere for many half years, has
grown from 250 to over 1,800.
So we are steadily busy.
Y'all have been in the store.
You know how busy we can get,but we have faithful Facebook
(16:18):
followers and, for instance,last night before I left I put a
bunch of Christmas stuff out.
That was sort of a Candylandtheme with lollipops and all
that kind of thing.
Two ladies came in just beforewe closed and bought everything
that we had.
They were watching.
Kim Chapman (16:33):
You know what?
And that leads me to my nextquestion.
So when you're putting thingsout there for sale right, you
mentioned, you found somethingfor $300 and you put it for $50.
How long will you let it sit at$50 before you'll drop it to
$40 or $30 or $20?
Betty Mujica-Milano (16:49):
I will if I notice it's been there a while.
One thing that I have learnedis if I move it around the store
, it looks brand new somewhereelse Get that little Walmart
grocery aisle strategy going.
And I can move it around.
For instance, one of the firstmore valuable things I found was
a signed Robert Rucker print,framed, beautifully done, and,
(17:13):
for those of you who don't know,he's a fairly famous Louisiana
artist.
So I had it on an easel rightas you walked in and I had
marked it at the time, if Iremember correctly, about $100,
which is probably a third ofwhat it was really worth.
And that was one of the firstmore valuable pieces that the
store had ever received.
And it didn't sell when peoplelike that's never going to sell
and I'm like it'll sell when theright person comes in.
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And so it didn't sell.
So I moved it to the left sideof the store on the wall and a
lady walked in and saw it fromacross and she said is that what
I think it is?
And it sold.
So I found moving things around.
But now if somebody is watchingsomething and say, hey, johnny,
would you take a little bitless for that?
And we'll work with them,because my job is to move stuff,
(17:56):
because the more money I make,the more money I can give back
to the community.
So it's all about getting itout of the store.
So, yes, we do bargain some.
Kim Chapman (18:03):
But, betty, you're doing it for money, you're doing
it for income.
So let's talk about that.
Let's talk about some of thethings that we purchased while
we were doing this littleproject and, you know, tell us
about how much you paid for it,what was the process like,
trying to sell it, and then howmuch profit did you make?
Absolutely.
Johnny Manela (18:24):
So actually the first item is an item that we
purchased at the fellowshipcenter.
So Kim and I went on, uh, onour little excursion over to the
fellowship center, you know,and and I had Kim tailing me
around the store, I was kind ofdoing quick work, um, you know,
looking all around the store andfor me it really is kind of
that instinctual, just kind oflike all like flip through and
you know, and I say some daysare are hitters and some days
(18:46):
are not, some days are gonnalike hit and some days aren't.
Um, and we found actually acocktail shaker, um and this
again speaks to kind of likeknowing what people are kind of
interested out there, because Icould tell immediately it was a
mid-century cocktail shakerglass with a metal top.
It had kind of a golf theme toit, um.
So again it's like that's thatitem where it's like if people
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are into mid-century modern, ifthey're in the 50s and 60s style
things and they have a husbandwho's in a golf, there's a lady
who's buying that for herhusband and I have to admit it
was just a dusty piece of stuff.
Kim Chapman (19:19):
Yeah, yeah it was?
Johnny Manela (19:20):
you looked at me crazy and it was only 225.
Kim Chapman (19:23):
Right, it was this and it was dollars and $2 and 25
cents.
Johnny Manela (19:27):
But I, when I picked it up, it was solid, um,
you know, and I just I just hada feeling right.
So I I pulled out google lens,I I scanned it and I was like,
okay, like people are sellingthis online for 20 bucks, 30
bucks, whatever, um, so I listedit and it actually sold really
quickly.
I think it sold within like twodays of me listing it.
(19:48):
This was probably our quickestsale that we did.
Sold for $17.
They paid $11.35 in shippingplus sales tax, and so, total,
they paid $30.99 for an itemthat I paid $2.25 for.
So after eBay does chargetransaction fees so you have to
take that into account and thosehave gone up as of late and
(20:10):
then everything else, the orderearnings were $12.49.
And then, after we subtractwhat the original price that we
paid, $2.25, our total profitfor that item was $10.24.
So that's pure profit in yourpocket, or, in this case, all of
the profits of this are goingback to our neighbor's capital
area foundation.
Kim Chapman (20:28):
All right.
So tell us about a couple ofthe items and then I want you to
go through the process of.
You know, after you found theshaker because, again, it looked
kind of dusty, I wouldn't haveeven wanted to touch it, but she
made a $10 profit.
So tell us about a couple ofother things and then walk us
through the process of puttingit online.
You know who does the shipping,who pays for shipping, all of
(20:49):
those good little details,Absolutely so.
Johnny Manela (20:50):
Another item we found at the Purple Cow was a
Taylor Swift concert t-shirt.
Obviously, Taylor Swift is thename on everyone's mouth right
now, so again, you have a prettyhigh likelihood there's a lot
of Swifties out here in theworld who are looking for
concert merch and things likethat.
The shirt was $3.99 and Ilisted it.
(21:12):
It ended up selling for $15.
So whenever I get the shirt, ifI get clothing items, I'll be
honest unless it's really reallybad off, I'm not washing it.
Respectfully, that's your jobwhen you buy it.
Get it home, wash your clothes,hey, but you're telling the
process.
Emcee (21:26):
I'm just telling the process.
Johnny Manela (21:27):
So unless it's like really bad off, if there's
stains and I feel like I can getyou know more money if I can
get stains out or things likethat, I'll try.
But for the most part withclothing it's as is and if
there's any defects or any items, when I'm doing the listing I
make note of those in thelisting.
So basically the eBay app makesit super easy.
(21:48):
You just say start a newlisting and you can actually
search for a similar item.
So you can say Taylor Swiftconcert shirts and it'll pull up
other listings and you can justsay sell one like this and a
lot of those details will be thesame.
So you don't have to go throughfilling out like all the
different details, just changeit for what it is.
So if the shirt that you sawsold was white, obviously you
(22:12):
need to change our shirt herewas red, change the color to red
, make sure the size is correct,all of that stuff.
But it makes it really quick.
Like you can probably list anitem within five minutes.
Realistically, you can take allthe pictures from within the
app, which actually Chad ourhelpful podcast producer here.
He actually took all thepictures for us here in the
studio, but you just uploadthose and then you know you can
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actually find comparable pricesfor what things sold for.
And I am not like Johnny, I'mnot necessarily trying to fetch
top dollar, I'm just trying tomove inventory.
If I can make a couple dollarspretty quickly, I'd rather do
that, except for when there'slike a really like a good mind
find what you were saying.
But otherwise it's like I'mgoing to sell it for what it
typically sold for.
So I'm going to list it at aprice that's going to move it
(22:57):
quickly.
So if everything's selling for20, I might list it for 17, just
so we can get it out the doorand then yeah, and then you just
kind of leave it there.
You post the listing and Iusually leave it for a couple
days and then after a coupledays if it's not moving, if
there's not a lot of interest onit, then I will create a
promotion.
(23:18):
So on eBay you're able tocreate promoted listings and
that basically just pushes youto top the search.
It does cost extra money.
If you do sell it you do pay afee, and in this case with this
t-shirt it's sold for $15.
They pay the shipping $4.43.
So once they buy it.
Then eBay offers discountedshipping if you purchase your
(23:40):
shipping label through them.
So you just package it with at-shirt.
It's super easy.
You just get like a littleDollar Tree envelope with
bubbles.
Dollar Tree envelope withbubbles or with a T-shirt.
Kim Chapman (23:48):
It's super easy.
Johnny Manela (23:48):
You just get like a little Dollar Tree envelope
with bubbles, or with a T-shirtnot even with bubbles, just a
plastic little sleeve and youfold the shirt, put it in there,
go to the post office and scanyour little QR code after you've
purchased your shipping labelon eBay and print it out, stick
it on there and send it out andthey've paid for the shipping
(24:10):
and you just print that shippinglabel and you send it out.
In this case I did have an adfee because I did have to
promote it.
A lot of the items that we didpurchase didn't necessarily move
as quickly as one would hope,so I did end up having to do ads
on these.
So it was a $2.41 ad.
So order earnings aftereverything, after the cost of
(24:33):
the shirt, we made $5.45 on this.
Taylor Swift t-shirt.
Kim Chapman (24:37):
All right.
So some of our listeners may besaying that's great, but I
don't want to go through allthat work for $10 and $5.
So tell us about some of yourbigger sales, because this idea
actually came because Betty wasin a staff meeting.
She was like guys, for thisweekend I sold XYZ and made $200
.
Tell our listeners about thosetypes of mindfuckers.
Johnny Manela (24:55):
Yeah, okay, so this is the.
This is the boring stuff, butit's still good, hey, and every
dollar counts.
Don't act like every dollardoesn't count.
Kim Chapman (25:02):
$5.45 that's like a block of cheese and a pound of
butter or money in your savingsaccount if you're struggling to
find that extra income to saveand build that emergency fund
had to plug that in.
Johnny Manela (25:14):
Absolutely so.
So you know, don't sleep.
You know, on the smaller items,but I did have what my best one
, the one that I just I holddear in my heart, was.
I was out of Goodwill and I wasin the glassware section and I
saw this black teapot with likea gold spout and like gold
detailing on it and it had likethis kind of ornate design on it
(25:35):
and it was for a restaurant.
It was like a restaurant.
I guess that had been in NewYork and I just saw it and I
caught my eye.
You know, and I think you'veprobably had this experience
many times where you're likethat's so different, it seems
special, I don't know what aboutit.
And so I took out Google Lens,which, google Lens, is your
friend.
If you are trying to resellstuff, all you have to do is
pull up Google, take a pictureof the item and it'll pull up
(25:59):
anything that looks similarthat's already online.
So, especially with items likethis, you'll sometimes find them
listed as sales.
So if there's another similaritem that's being sold online
from what you just scanned like,you can actually find out a lot
more information on it.
So I did that and pulled up andfound out it was a teapot that
was used at this famousrestaurant in New York City that
(26:24):
, like famous people, went toJFK, like Marilyn Monroe, all
this stuff in the 50s and 60sand it had closed, I think
sometime in the 2010s or early.
And it had closed, I think,sometime in the 2010s or early,
maybe late 2010s, and I found iton a very fancy antique resale
website for $800.
(26:45):
It was $2.
It was $2.
I found it on this resalewebsite for $800.
And then I found one on eBayfor $500.
So really, I only found twobeing sold online, found one on
eBay for $500.
So really, I only found twobeing sold online, one for $800,
one for $500.
But they hadn't sold right.
It's like I saw that the one oneBay had been there for a while
for $500.
So I said, you know what, intrue Betty style, I said I'm not
(27:05):
trying to hold on to thisteapot for the rest of my life
waiting for someone to pay me$800 for it.
I was like, let me list it forlike $350.
And I went in a back and forthwith this man, the people trying
to really get the deals, butthen, after everything was said
and done, I ended up selling itto him, and I made $250 off of
that Awesome.
Kim Chapman (27:25):
So, Jannie, in your many years with the Fellowship
Center, what do you think hasbeen like your biggest mind?
Find that you turned around andwas able to sell for the
fellowship center and bring inthat money.
Betty Mujica-Milano (27:41):
Sure.
So one day I was in the back,going through my treasure pile,
as I call it, I found severalboxes of these glass figures
cars, planes, cannons, boatships and so forth and some had
what looked like to be littlecandies.
And I'm like, well, what arethese?
And I'm like, oh my gosh,there's tons of them.
And so I'm like these willnever sell, I'm never gonna make
.
There's just too many of them.
And so I went, let me load upthe car and I will.
(28:02):
If there's a lot of things thatI need to do a little bit more
research, I'll put them in thecar, I'll take them home.
So I did.
I loaded all these things up inthe car and, um, looking at
them and trying to ebay them soforth, well, come to find out
they were from the early 20s.
They were antique candycontainers that they were for
kids, made of glass, and, like Isaid, they were cars and trains
(28:25):
and planes and figures and allkind of different things.
So there was just so many ofthem and so I'm thinking, am I
going to sell these?
So I went.
It's got to be a Facebook groupof these people.
So I went on Facebook and putin antique candy container
collectors or whatever.
Lo and behold, there's one Ofcourse there is, with about 85
(28:45):
people in it.
And so I set up a card tablethat we had at the house and I
lined them up by category and Ishot a video saying, hey, my
name is Johnny and I'm from theFellowship Center and I have
these.
What do I have, can you help me?
And so I sent that out, postedit on that Facebook group,
joined the group and put it onthere and people went crazy.
(29:07):
They're emailing me and they'reFacebooking me and that kind of
thing.
And so it got to where I waslike here's my number, call me.
So I sold these things in toCalifornia, florida, illinois,
north Dakota.
In the end we made about $3,000from these antique candy
containers.
Kim Chapman (29:25):
Oh, my God, Wow, that's awesome.
And while, of course, thepremise of this show is making
income, but of course it's moneythat you're putting back in the
community, so tell us a littlebit about where that $3,000 goes
.
Betty Mujica-Milano (29:39):
So all of the proceeds that we make from
the Fellowship Center.
Of course we have utility billslike anybody else electric,
water and so forth and then thefew employees that we have.
We pay them as well.
And then somebody goes intoreserve for repairs and so forth
and things that we may need inthe future.
But then a lot of it goes backto our financial assistance
office where people can come ontypically Monday, wednesday,
(30:01):
friday, and they meet with MsBrenda and she assess their
needs and it could be help withutility bills, car repairs and
so forth.
So we basically give all thatmoney back to the community.
None of it is done withanything else other than the few
items that I mentioned, and soyou know the building's been
repainted, we've put new ceilingtiles in, led lighting,
(30:23):
security you know differentthings like that.
So some of it goes to that.
You know that.
But the bulk of it is to goback into the community, and
that doesn't even include whatwe provide to families through
the food pantry, and so that'swhere all of our funding goes.
Kim Chapman (30:37):
That's awesome.
Question can this stuff bereturned On eBay?
Yes, have you sold somethingthat somebody said?
You know what I don't like this?
Can I give my money back, or doyou have a return policy at the
folks?
Betty Mujica-Milano (30:52):
So our policy is basically no exchanges
, no returns.
Now there have been instanceswhere there's been an unusual
situation and we've done that,or maybe there's been a slight
overcharge and so we just makeit good.
So in general, no, because youare at a thrift store, it's sort
of as is kind of thing.
So I typically don't put outtorn or ripped or stained things
(31:16):
.
Now, do those slip by?
Of course they do, and so ourcustomers, thankfully and we
have daily customers that comeevery single day they'll say,
hey, this is ripped, oh, thankyou for showing love it.
Or hey, this is broken.
Now, if I find something thathas a chip in it but it still
has a lot of value to it, I puta sticker with an arrow so that
people can say, hey, I'm justletting you know this has got a
chip in it, and then I reducethe price from there and go from
(31:38):
there.
But again, in general we don't.
It's no returns.
Johnny Manela (31:42):
Yeah, so eBay is kind of the same way.
Since I'm the store owner of myeBay store, I get to set the
policies in my store Since, likeI said, I'm trying to move
inventory out.
I'm not trying to move inventoryin, and I'm usually selling
things for a really good price.
And I accept offers, which isanother feature of eBay.
(32:03):
Somebody can send you an offerand I always leave all my items
open to get an offer.
Um, I'm so sorry, um, but Idon't accept returns.
Um, I will again in certainscenarios.
If someone's really unsatisfiedor somebody's really upset,
(32:25):
I'll deal with that on acase-by-case basis, but for the
most part I put pictures up ofevery single part of the item.
Like, I will go through andtruly like, do close-ups.
If there's a pit stain, you'regetting a close-up of that.
If there's a little hole in theback, you're getting a picture
of that In the description.
I make note, like please viewall the photos before you
(32:45):
purchase.
There should be no reason thatthey feel surprised by what they
got once they got it, becausein my pictures I try to include
everything that's going on withthat.
Kim Chapman (32:54):
So you're not trying to make Motel 6 look like
the Taj Mahal.
Johnny Manela (32:58):
No, ma'am, I'm not.
I'm not trying, I'm not puttinglipstick on a pig.
You're getting what you'regetting.
Look at the pictures.
Kim Chapman (33:03):
All right, a couple of final questions before we
wrap up.
Johnny, what is your advice forsomebody that wants to get
started and they want to be ableto come to places like the
Fellowship?
Is there a certain day of theweek that's better than other
season of the year?
How can we find the really goodfinds?
Is it Sunday night, rightbefore closing that?
Hey, you're going to markeverything down.
What's your tip?
Betty Mujica-Milano (33:24):
So at the Fellowship Center we are on a
daily basis renewing our stock.
So new clothing goes out everymorning, knickknacks and so
forth, maybe not necessarilyevery day, but frequently.
I think, as Betty has mentionedin some of her comments, you've
got to become educated.
Look up things Google Lens,eBay, watch YouTube videos.
(33:46):
Find out if you have a niche.
I mean, I have certain and wecall it the Johnny Club, where
we have certain people thatcollect certain things, and so I
have their names and numbers inmy phone.
So if, let's say, Betty'slooking for a crystal bowl, I
may find this fabulous crystalbowl and I'll text her and say,
hey, I have this, it's Waterfordand it's 50 bucks, Are you
interested?
And she may come in to buy it.
(34:07):
So there's not a particular day, but I do post quite a few
times during the day.
Our Facebook followers, as Imentioned, our Facebook
followers are over 1,800.
So they're watching and they'relooking for things.
I have collectors that havestores in New Orleans, Lafayette
, and they will comeperiodically and load up and
(34:27):
then they resell it, and so forthose some of those, we do make
deals on, because again, I'mtrying to move it and get rid of
it so I can put new stuff out.
I have a unlimited supply ofthings that are ready to go out
at any given time.
Kim Chapman (34:38):
And I tell you it's a really big market because
when Betty and I were outshopping, immediately she
identified another you knowperson that was thrifting for
income and it was like they werehaving this big conversation.
Emcee (34:49):
So you know, it's kind of like what are you doing here?
Kim Chapman (34:52):
You know, nobody's in there shopping to buy stuff
to take home.
So, betty, what is your advicefor somebody that's just getting
started, like I heard youmention earlier?
Maybe start with some of thestuff at your house, because I
tell you, if there's a name forthis episode, it is one man's
trash is another man's treasurethere is something out there
that somebody that you don'twant but somebody else is
(35:13):
willing to pay for.
Out there that somebody thatyou don't want.
Johnny Manela (35:14):
But somebody else is willing to pay for.
Yeah.
So I would say definitely, lookin your own house and take your
Google lens out.
Like I said, just download theGoogle app and when you pull it
up, instead of typing in thesearch bar, there's actually a
picture button.
So you just press that picturebutton.
It pulls up a camera and goaround your house and just be
like.
I haven't worn this shirt for ayear.
Kim Chapman (35:35):
I'm not going to fit it again.
Yeah, it's been 10 years.
Johnny Manela (35:38):
Take a picture with your Google Lens and see,
you know, see how much it mightbe worth.
You'll find whether the item iseven being listed online, or
you know, or if it is like andit's being sold for $20, might
as well give it a shot.
Also, another great thingpeople have a lot of junk in
(36:01):
their houses and you might findsomebody's just doing some
spring cleaning.
Go to your parents' house, Belike you, trying to get rid of
any of this stuff.
Let me help you out.
Betty Mujica-Milano (36:10):
And then grandma's house is a great place
.
Grandma's house is a great.
Grandma's house is a greatplace.
Johnny Manela (36:15):
Yeah, um, and it's also great because it's
like your parents andgrandparents need help cleaning
out their houses, you knowanyways.
So maybe you can strike up adeal with them and say, hey, why
don't we list some of thisstuff online and we can split
the profits?
Um, another thing, and this isgonna sound crazy, but I've sold
things from the side of theroad.
If your neighborhood is a typeof neighborhood where people put
(36:38):
random stuff on the side of theroad, you better stop.
I found a hat.
I found a Stetson cowboy hatside of the road free.
It had stains on it andeverything.
I sold that thing for $300.
I paid $0.99 for that hat.
I paid $0.99 for that hat.
So really it's like deals andsteals and things that mean
(36:59):
something to somebody are kindof everywhere.
So never discount somethingbecause there's somebody out
there looking for that toy candyholder from the 20s.
There's somebody out therelooking for that Taylor Swift
concert T-shirt.
So it really is.
One man's trash is anotherman's treasure.
Kim Chapman (37:17):
And the bottom line is, if you want to thrive
financially thrive in 2025, thisis how you can do it.
It doesn't matter Do you needto start an emergency fund?
Build your savings, pay offthat debt a little bit at a time
, fund that vacation.
It doesn't matter.
This is an opportunity that youcan do on the side.
It's not going to take fromyour main job.
It's an excellent opportunity.
(37:38):
So I'm going to thank ourexperts our resident expert,
betty here she's going to helpme get a better eye on that
thrifting and Johnny, thank youso much for joining us.
My pleasure.
Emcee (37:52):
It's time for Blueprint Building Blocks Small changes
that lead to big financial wins.
Let's stack up for success.
Kim Chapman (38:01):
If you're ready to make income from thrifting,
start small and experiment.
Start with the little thingsthat you have around your house.
Put those up for sale and seehow you do.
If you're not certain where tostart, be sure to research
prices first.
Use tools like Google Lens tohelp you set the price and then
(38:23):
make those profits.
You can definitely make incomefrom doing it, and be sure to
watch our YouTube page and ourFacebook page, and if this
episode helped you get into themarket and make some income from
thrifting, drop us a line andlet us know.
Emcee (38:38):
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Now here is your host, ms KimChapman.
Kim Chapman (00:14):
We're going to be talking about how to generate
some income from thrifting.
So this is part two.
We already did one episodewhere, hey, you can thrift to
stretch your budget.
Instead of going and buying thename brand items for $50, $100
in the.
Hey, you can thrift to stretchyour budget.
Instead of going and buy thename brand items for $50, $100
in a store, you can get themgently used or sometimes brand
new at a thrift store.
So if you just need to stretchthe budget that was another
(00:36):
episode Today sometimes you needextra income.
When I see clients they're likehow can I make extra income?
I don't have time for extra job, but that's okay, you can sell
stuff.
People do this all the time.
Coming back or joining us againis Betty.
Basically, when she's not atneighbors, she's thrifting.
Right, she is thrifting and shehas turned me on to the ideal
(00:59):
in the world of thrifting,showing how you can stretch your
dollar, but also how you canbuy something for pennies on the
dollar and then turn around andsell it and make income.
But we also have another expertwith us, mr Johnny Manella, and
he's with the Fellowship Centerout in Gonzales.
It's a thrift store and so he'sthat expert that gets those
things in that you know peopledonate anything.
(01:20):
That's trash but it really is atreasure.
So welcome guys hey.
Betty Mujica-Milano (01:25):
Kate Good morning.
Kim Chapman (01:32):
This is going to be fun, because Betty dragged me
all over the city.
We went to all types of thriftstores, garage sales, estate
sales to find some really goodstuff at a really, really cheap
price.
And then she turned around andput it on.
Was it eBay, betty?
Yep, ebay On eBay.
And she's going to tell youthroughout this episode how much
it cost her when she bought itand then how much money she made
.
So I mean, who doesn't needextra income?
(01:53):
And it didn't really seem likea lot of work.
I mean, you go shopping, hey, Ilike to shop, you like to shop,
right, you go shopping, pick upa couple of things for pennies
and then stick it online andthen somebody wants to buy it.
So we're going to go ahead andget started.
So, johnny, tell us about whatyou do at the Fellowship Center.
Betty Mujica-Milano (02:12):
So I am the manager of the Fellowship
Center here in Gonzales and weaccept donations of all types,
mostly clothing types, mostlyclothing, but you name it, we
pretty much get it, and so webasically sell it, obviously,
(02:35):
and all of the proceeds that arefrom our sales go back into our
community in the form offinancial assistance in addition
to our food pantry.
Kim Chapman (02:40):
So tell us a little bit about what you actually do
in terms of your role, taking inthat merchandise and being able
to price it and put it out onthe shelves.
Betty Mujica-Milano (02:48):
Okay.
So we do have two people thatwork in our warehouse and they
take in all of the goods that weget, again mostly clothing.
So for clothing we have sortersthat sort it by gender, by
sizes, by types, by seasons andso forth, and then we price it.
We started using pricingmethods where we tag at certain
(03:10):
colors to make it a little biteasier.
So things may be $3, $4, and $5, and that tag is a certain
color, and so we've gotten wherewe're using that more to be a
little bit more efficient.
For your knickknacks and moredecorative home decor things,
which I kind of focus more of myattention on, I just sort of go
through them.
(03:30):
If I think they are of value,or if others see them and think
they're of value, we put them tothe side and then I do research
through Google, Lens, eBay, andthen we go pricing from there
and we set things up from there.
Kim Chapman (03:44):
Cool.
So, benny, as you said theprevious episode, you've been
thrifting for quite a minute,but tell us how long have you
been thrifting for income?
Did you start off just doing itto stretch your dollar or did
you start off doing it for theincome?
Johnny Manela (03:58):
I started thrifting for fun when I was a
teenager like I said in the lastepisode that you should go
watch when I was a teenager likeI said in the last episode that
you should go watch but only inthe last couple of years have I
actually started thrifting, orthrifting to sell the items.
And actually really during thepandemic, I couldn't go
thrifting, so I started going oneBay and I started purchasing
(04:18):
things on eBay during during thepandemic and then, probably
after my daughter was born in2021, 2022, I started realizing
that I had too much stuff andthat I had thrifted and I needed
to figure out a way to get ridof it.
Kim Chapman (04:36):
And I thought so I'm going to stop you right
there because I know if you'relistening everybody listening.
We have stuff that we boughtthat seemed like a good idea at
the time, but it's over in thecorner.
Maybe it never even made it outof the box.
So you may think why am I evenlistening to this?
Because it's you.
You have some stuff that maybeyou can actually turn around and
sell.
You may not even need to go tothe thrift store.
(04:57):
You may just need to listen toBetty and figure out how you can
turn that stuff, that wastedspace, into income.
Johnny Manela (05:08):
Okay, Betty, let's roll Absolutely Well, and
I'm glad you mentioned that,because I didn't start by going
to thrift stores and findingthings to resell.
I actually started by lookingthrough my own house and
reselling things in my own house, and usually when people find
out that I will sell stuff oneBay or whatever, that's the
first thing I tell them.
I say don't go spend any moremoney on doing it Like, learn
how to do it via selling stuffthat you have in your house that
(05:29):
you're not using and you know.
I like to say like if youbought it at some point,
somebody would probably buy itfrom you, you know, and you kind
of never know.
You really kind of never knowwhat's going to actually sell
quickly and what's going toactually make you a decent
amount of money.
So definitely shop your housefirst if you're interested in
getting into reselling online.
Kim Chapman (05:51):
So, johnny, tell us a little bit more about what
goes into the process ofactually pricing an item,
because I imagine we've bothbeen to the Fellowship Center.
You get there's a warehousewith tons of stuff.
I mean my eyes are just like,oh my God, I'd be overwhelmed.
So what is that process likebeing able to look at something?
I mean, is it just somethingyou can look at and say, ok,
(06:12):
this is valuable, put it overhere.
This is, you know, not thatvaluable, let's put it over
there.
Or do you have to really kindof go through each and every
item?
Do you have an eye for it?
Betty Mujica-Milano (06:25):
Well, great question.
So I do sort of have an eye forthings.
My wife and I are avidcollectors, have an art
collection, personal artcollection, and then I do watch
a lot of YouTube videos and ofcourse everybody has seen
American Pickers, which probablyeverybody started looking at
that, and so I was able to beginassessing values through that.
So when I initially was hiredto the store that was, my job
was to do a lot of the homedecor.
As I mentioned, the clothing iskind of set priced, you know,
(06:47):
and so that's easy, you know, wejust kind of sort it by there.
But for things like home decorI just get a sense of, hey, that
looks valuable, or, and then mystaff has begun to kind of
notice that too, and so we'llput that to the side, and things
surprise me all the time.
So, like the other day, we gotthis mirror and I call it the
monkey mirror, and I knew it hadsome value to it.
(07:09):
It was heavy, it just lookedvery well made.
I have an interior designdegree, so I sort of have an eye
for all of that as well, and soI cleaned it all up and so
forth and it's on eBay for $395.
And we're selling it for $50.
Wow.
So it's amazing the things thatyou find.
But typically if it's heavy it'svery intricate and of course
(07:32):
there are certain brands thatyou know, like Lennox and
Wedgwood and Waterford, thosetype of brands you automatically
know.
Oh, those typically have alittle bit higher value, but
higher value.
And so I kind of learned fromthere, just from practice and
going to estate sales andwatching a lot of YouTube videos
of pickers and so forth who dokind of like Betty does, who do
it more full time, and so I'velearned about different things
(07:55):
and so it's interesting.
I mean, who would have thoughtthat monkey mirror that I put on
to a text message to our group?
I said, look at this monkeymirror.
Everybody said, oh, I hate it,and I'm like, oh, it's $3.95 on
eBay.
Kim Chapman (08:07):
Wow, wow.
And it really is an eye,because when Betty and I started
this journey, I was like alittle kid in a candy store and
I was like, hey, is this worthsomething?
She'd be like, nope, what aboutthis?
Nope, you tiny, definitely not,because it was heavy.
If it just looked pretty and alot of those things that I
showed her, it was like thumbsdown, oh, maybe four, five, six,
(08:28):
eight, I don't know.
Weeks in, I finally startedbringing stuff in or bringing it
to her and she's like, yeah,you're kind of catching it.
So, betty, what is yourstrategy?
You know, what tips can yougive to somebody if they are
going to go out thrifting, or ifthey're actually looking at
stuff in their house, or maybeeven grandma's house?
Right, what should they belooking for?
Johnny Manela (08:47):
So I completely agree with you.
I think it's really aboutmaterials, it's about the weight
of something you know, and itis hard because it's like you
develop an eye over time.
I've been thrifting since I waslike 14, 15 years old.
You know, at a certain point itjust becomes like second nature
, like an instinct of like oh,this fabric is good, this
(09:08):
fabric's cheap.
You know, you get a sense.
But you know, a lot of times Ithink even moving away from like
, the idea of like somethingthat's worth a lot of money, is
really looking at somethingthat's niche.
So thinking about a customer,that is niche.
So I actually find that mythings that sell best for me on
(09:28):
eBay is when I sell my husband'sold clothes, the clothes he
doesn't fit anymore.
I can sell a pair of JCrucinoson eBay.
Lickety split because that isthe type of person who's just
buying their pants on eBay issome random 30 to 40 year old
man who's like I don't want togo to the store and I don't want
to pay full price.
Oh, this is my size of JakeCruchino's, I'll buy it.
(09:51):
So I find that if I'm at thethrift store and I find a pair
of like golf shorts or athleticshorts for men right, those go
off the shelves quickly.
So I think thinking about whois actually shopping on eBay and
what are they looking for.
Another thing that I really liketo look for is vintage dresses.
(10:12):
Vintage dresses always go wellon eBay because, much like me,
during the pandemic, I wasbuying a bunch of vintage
clothing on eBay.
So now, in turn, I go to thriftstores.
I can buy a long vintage gownfor like $5 and I can go ahead
and sell it on eBay for $35 to$40.
So it's really thinking aboutlike who's actually online
(10:34):
shopping for this stuff andreally finding items that cater
to those people.
Kim Chapman (10:38):
So I got a question .
Clearly, if I brought in apainting of the Mona Lisa, you'd
look and laugh because you knowI didn't have that, I didn't
own that.
But how do you develop an eyeto detect if something is
authentic, if it's real or not?
Especially, you know there's abillion dollar industry in terms
of tennis shoes, especiallythings like Air Jordans not
Nike's, whatever they may be andso you see all the time in the
(11:01):
news sometimes somebody buyssomething they thought it was
worth $500 and really it's justa $3 pair tennis shoe.
So how can you determine ifit's something that's authentic
or not?
Betty Mujica-Milano (11:12):
Well, I know one of the things that we
get a lot of and I'm definitelynot an expert in is coach bags
and other designer handbags.
We get coach bags like crazywhich I have staff members that
go through those and 99.99% ofthem are not real.
We had a Jimmy Choo handbag Ihave staff members that go
through those and 99.99% of themare not real.
We had a Jimmy Choo handbag andI could tell, not knowing
(11:32):
anything, but it was wrapped inplastic.
Well, I would assume thatsomebody of that designer brand
I know that that's more of ashoemaker, at least that's what
I know that would never be a$1,000 bag or whatever.
It would be a, you know, athousand dollar bag or whatever
it would be.
We do get a lot of Jordans andwe are, again, not experts on
(11:52):
those as far as that but I dohave somebody that kind of looks
at them and says, yeah, that'sreal and that kind of thing.
But I have Jordans that thatthey're in the showcase for two
hundred dollars but they'reworth seven, eight, nine hundred
bucks based on eBay prices.
Kim Chapman (12:05):
So, betty, what do you find?
You know, what are the clues?
If you're looking for somethingand, like you say, you might
use Google Lens, and if this isauthentic, then hey, it's worth,
worth a lot of money, how canyou ensure that, if you're going
to put something online andyou're selling it as something
authentic, that it is?
I mean, can you look at thestitching?
I know, like with scams, welook for misspelled letters and
(12:26):
things.
What are the type, what are thered flags that you can look for
that says this is not authentic?
Johnny Manela (12:31):
Yeah.
So I think a lot of you know,obviously the internet has a
wealth of resources.
So you know, one of the greatthings is, if it's a clothing
piece, a clothing item, you canactually go online and compare
tags.
So there'll be like websiteswhere you can look at all of the
tags, like, let's say, you finda Chanel dress at the thrift
(12:53):
store.
Never happened to me, stillpraying for it to happen Anytime
, it would be great, godthrowing that one up to you but
you can actually go online andsay Chanel clothing tags and
there will be, like there's agosh, I wish I could remember
the name of it but there's awebsite that has every tag that
a designer has ever used intheir clothing.
(13:14):
So you can basically go throughand compare and see if any of
those tags match up to what youhave.
Most likely, you it's likeagain, though you can kind of
tell.
It's like you can tell and Ithink people you know don't
often follow their instinct Withanything, but it's like you can
tell, you can feel it and justknow it's of quality.
(13:37):
Stitching is a huge thing.
If, like it's a logo bag let'ssay it's a Louis Vuitton bag
they, they painstakingly matchup like logos.
So if it's an entire logo bagand there's kind of like a
mismatch of the logos, a bigdesigner brand would never do
that because they're sellingquality.
And then another great thing isthere are authentic
(13:59):
authentication services so youcan actually bring your stuff to
an authentic authenticator toget authenticated, and then eBay
actually offers authenticationas well.
So if you do have a designerbag that's worth a lot of money
that you want to sell, you canactually send it into eBay and
(14:19):
they will authenticate it foryou.
And then when you're selling iton eBay, it'll say there's an
authenticity guarantee.
And then there's also websiteslike the real real, which I do a
little bit of selling on theretoo, and that's exclusively
designer items.
So if you have something thatyou purchased has the dust bag
still all that stuff.
I have a friend who actuallyhad a Prada bag that she
(14:42):
purchased.
She was in Italy, she purchasedit for a couple thousand
dollars and she resold it on thereal world because she was like
you know what?
I don't really have a use forthis, I need the cash instead,
and so you can send it in.
But those typically have ahigher fee.
Kim Chapman (14:56):
All right.
So we know, in this day and age, scammers rule.
They're out there everywhere.
So, whether you're the buyer orthe seller, how can you protect
yourself online?
Betty Mujica-Milano (15:08):
Well, I think, as Betty said, you've got
to be educated.
With the Internet out there,you can find out so much more
than you ever could years andyears ago.
I can't imagine doing my jobTen years ago when you sort of
had to guess what things werelike.
We get a lot of crystalline andthings that just feel much
heavier.
For instance, I found adecanter that we had come to be.
(15:29):
It was a Waterford decanter,and so without and I had to
really really look for theWaterford logo, and I finally
did find it, but without havingeBay and be able to match up
things or Google Lens, the jobwould be much more challenging.
Kim Chapman (15:46):
And so I know, of course you know this is a brick
and mortar facility, afellowship center, but do you do
things online?
Can I shop online to find yourmerchandise?
Betty Mujica-Mila (15:54):
Unfortunately not.
We're just not set up for thatdue to the number of staff
members and volunteers that wehave.
Now we do put a lot of thingson Facebook.
I run our social media page.
Our membership, since I've beenthere for many half years, has
grown from 250 to over 1,800.
So we are steadily busy.
Y'all have been in the store.
You know how busy we can get,but we have faithful Facebook
(16:18):
followers and, for instance,last night before I left I put a
bunch of Christmas stuff out.
That was sort of a Candylandtheme with lollipops and all
that kind of thing.
Two ladies came in just beforewe closed and bought everything
that we had.
They were watching.
Kim Chapman (16:33):
You know what?
And that leads me to my nextquestion.
So when you're putting thingsout there for sale right, you
mentioned, you found somethingfor $300 and you put it for $50.
How long will you let it sit at$50 before you'll drop it to
$40 or $30 or $20?
Betty Mujica-Milano (16:49):
I will if I notice it's been there a while.
One thing that I have learnedis if I move it around the store
, it looks brand new somewhereelse Get that little Walmart
grocery aisle strategy going.
And I can move it around.
For instance, one of the firstmore valuable things I found was
a signed Robert Rucker print,framed, beautifully done, and,
(17:13):
for those of you who don't know,he's a fairly famous Louisiana
artist.
So I had it on an easel rightas you walked in and I had
marked it at the time, if Iremember correctly, about $100,
which is probably a third ofwhat it was really worth.
And that was one of the firstmore valuable pieces that the
store had ever received.
And it didn't sell when peoplelike that's never going to sell
and I'm like it'll sell when theright person comes in.
(17:34):
And so it didn't sell.
So I moved it to the left sideof the store on the wall and a
lady walked in and saw it fromacross and she said is that what
I think it is?
And it sold.
So I found moving things around.
But now if somebody is watchingsomething and say, hey, johnny,
would you take a little bitless for that?
And we'll work with them,because my job is to move stuff,
(17:56):
because the more money I make,the more money I can give back
to the community.
So it's all about getting itout of the store.
So, yes, we do bargain some.
Kim Chapman (18:03):
But, betty, you're doing it for money, you're doing
it for income.
So let's talk about that.
Let's talk about some of thethings that we purchased while
we were doing this littleproject and, you know, tell us
about how much you paid for it,what was the process like,
trying to sell it, and then howmuch profit did you make?
Absolutely.
Johnny Manela (18:24):
So actually the first item is an item that we
purchased at the fellowshipcenter.
So Kim and I went on, uh, onour little excursion over to the
fellowship center, you know,and and I had Kim tailing me
around the store, I was kind ofdoing quick work, um, you know,
looking all around the store andfor me it really is kind of
that instinctual, just kind oflike all like flip through and
you know, and I say some daysare are hitters and some days
(18:46):
are not, some days are gonnalike hit and some days aren't.
Um, and we found actually acocktail shaker, um and this
again speaks to kind of likeknowing what people are kind of
interested out there, because Icould tell immediately it was a
mid-century cocktail shakerglass with a metal top.
It had kind of a golf theme toit, um.
So again it's like that's thatitem where it's like if people
(19:08):
are into mid-century modern, ifthey're in the 50s and 60s style
things and they have a husbandwho's in a golf, there's a lady
who's buying that for herhusband and I have to admit it
was just a dusty piece of stuff.
Kim Chapman (19:19):
Yeah, yeah it was?
Johnny Manela (19:20):
you looked at me crazy and it was only 225.
Kim Chapman (19:23):
Right, it was this and it was dollars and $2 and 25
cents.
Johnny Manela (19:27):
But I, when I picked it up, it was solid, um,
you know, and I just I just hada feeling right.
So I I pulled out google lens,I I scanned it and I was like,
okay, like people are sellingthis online for 20 bucks, 30
bucks, whatever, um, so I listedit and it actually sold really
quickly.
I think it sold within like twodays of me listing it.
(19:48):
This was probably our quickestsale that we did.
Sold for $17.
They paid $11.35 in shippingplus sales tax, and so, total,
they paid $30.99 for an itemthat I paid $2.25 for.
So after eBay does chargetransaction fees so you have to
take that into account and thosehave gone up as of late and
(20:10):
then everything else, the orderearnings were $12.49.
And then, after we subtractwhat the original price that we
paid, $2.25, our total profitfor that item was $10.24.
So that's pure profit in yourpocket, or, in this case, all of
the profits of this are goingback to our neighbor's capital
area foundation.
Kim Chapman (20:28):
All right.
So tell us about a couple ofthe items and then I want you to
go through the process of.
You know, after you found theshaker because, again, it looked
kind of dusty, I wouldn't haveeven wanted to touch it, but she
made a $10 profit.
So tell us about a couple ofother things and then walk us
through the process of puttingit online.
You know who does the shipping,who pays for shipping, all of
(20:49):
those good little details,Absolutely so.
Johnny Manela (20:50):
Another item we found at the Purple Cow was a
Taylor Swift concert t-shirt.
Obviously, Taylor Swift is thename on everyone's mouth right
now, so again, you have a prettyhigh likelihood there's a lot
of Swifties out here in theworld who are looking for
concert merch and things likethat.
The shirt was $3.99 and Ilisted it.
(21:12):
It ended up selling for $15.
So whenever I get the shirt, ifI get clothing items, I'll be
honest unless it's really reallybad off, I'm not washing it.
Respectfully, that's your jobwhen you buy it.
Get it home, wash your clothes,hey, but you're telling the
process.
Emcee (21:26):
I'm just telling the process.
Johnny Manela (21:27):
So unless it's like really bad off, if there's
stains and I feel like I can getyou know more money if I can
get stains out or things likethat, I'll try.
But for the most part withclothing it's as is and if
there's any defects or any items, when I'm doing the listing I
make note of those in thelisting.
So basically the eBay app makesit super easy.
(21:48):
You just say start a newlisting and you can actually
search for a similar item.
So you can say Taylor Swiftconcert shirts and it'll pull up
other listings and you can justsay sell one like this and a
lot of those details will be thesame.
So you don't have to go throughfilling out like all the
different details, just changeit for what it is.
So if the shirt that you sawsold was white, obviously you
(22:12):
need to change our shirt herewas red, change the color to red
, make sure the size is correct,all of that stuff.
But it makes it really quick.
Like you can probably list anitem within five minutes.
Realistically, you can take allthe pictures from within the
app, which actually Chad ourhelpful podcast producer here.
He actually took all thepictures for us here in the
studio, but you just uploadthose and then you know you can
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actually find comparable pricesfor what things sold for.
And I am not like Johnny, I'mnot necessarily trying to fetch
top dollar, I'm just trying tomove inventory.
If I can make a couple dollarspretty quickly, I'd rather do
that, except for when there'slike a really like a good mind
find what you were saying.
But otherwise it's like I'mgoing to sell it for what it
typically sold for.
So I'm going to list it at aprice that's going to move it
(22:57):
quickly.
So if everything's selling for20, I might list it for 17, just
so we can get it out the doorand then yeah, and then you just
kind of leave it there.
You post the listing and Iusually leave it for a couple
days and then after a coupledays if it's not moving, if
there's not a lot of interest onit, then I will create a
promotion.
(23:18):
So on eBay you're able tocreate promoted listings and
that basically just pushes youto top the search.
It does cost extra money.
If you do sell it you do pay afee, and in this case with this
t-shirt it's sold for $15.
They pay the shipping $4.43.
So once they buy it.
Then eBay offers discountedshipping if you purchase your
(23:40):
shipping label through them.
So you just package it with at-shirt.
It's super easy.
You just get like a littleDollar Tree envelope with
bubbles.
Dollar Tree envelope withbubbles or with a T-shirt.
Kim Chapman (23:48):
It's super easy.
Johnny Manela (23:48):
You just get like a little Dollar Tree envelope
with bubbles, or with a T-shirtnot even with bubbles, just a
plastic little sleeve and youfold the shirt, put it in there,
go to the post office and scanyour little QR code after you've
purchased your shipping labelon eBay and print it out, stick
it on there and send it out andthey've paid for the shipping
(24:10):
and you just print that shippinglabel and you send it out.
In this case I did have an adfee because I did have to
promote it.
A lot of the items that we didpurchase didn't necessarily move
as quickly as one would hope,so I did end up having to do ads
on these.
So it was a $2.41 ad.
So order earnings aftereverything, after the cost of
(24:33):
the shirt, we made $5.45 on this.
Taylor Swift t-shirt.
Kim Chapman (24:37):
All right.
So some of our listeners may besaying that's great, but I
don't want to go through allthat work for $10 and $5.
So tell us about some of yourbigger sales, because this idea
actually came because Betty wasin a staff meeting.
She was like guys, for thisweekend I sold XYZ and made $200
.
Tell our listeners about thosetypes of mindfuckers.
Johnny Manela (24:55):
Yeah, okay, so this is the.
This is the boring stuff, butit's still good, hey, and every
dollar counts.
Don't act like every dollardoesn't count.
Kim Chapman (25:02):
$5.45 that's like a block of cheese and a pound of
butter or money in your savingsaccount if you're struggling to
find that extra income to saveand build that emergency fund
had to plug that in.
Johnny Manela (25:14):
Absolutely so.
So you know, don't sleep.
You know, on the smaller items,but I did have what my best one
, the one that I just I holddear in my heart, was.
I was out of Goodwill and I wasin the glassware section and I
saw this black teapot with likea gold spout and like gold
detailing on it and it had likethis kind of ornate design on it
(25:35):
and it was for a restaurant.
It was like a restaurant.
I guess that had been in NewYork and I just saw it and I
caught my eye.
You know, and I think you'veprobably had this experience
many times where you're likethat's so different, it seems
special, I don't know what aboutit.
And so I took out Google Lens,which, google Lens, is your
friend.
If you are trying to resellstuff, all you have to do is
pull up Google, take a pictureof the item and it'll pull up
(25:59):
anything that looks similarthat's already online.
So, especially with items likethis, you'll sometimes find them
listed as sales.
So if there's another similaritem that's being sold online
from what you just scanned like,you can actually find out a lot
more information on it.
So I did that and pulled up andfound out it was a teapot that
was used at this famousrestaurant in New York City that
(26:24):
, like famous people, went toJFK, like Marilyn Monroe, all
this stuff in the 50s and 60sand it had closed, I think
sometime in the 2010s or early.
And it had closed, I think,sometime in the 2010s or early,
maybe late 2010s, and I found iton a very fancy antique resale
website for $800.
(26:45):
It was $2.
It was $2.
I found it on this resalewebsite for $800.
And then I found one on eBayfor $500.
So really, I only found twobeing sold online, found one on
eBay for $500.
So really, I only found twobeing sold online, one for $800,
one for $500.
But they hadn't sold right.
It's like I saw that the one oneBay had been there for a while
for $500.
So I said, you know what, intrue Betty style, I said I'm not
(27:05):
trying to hold on to thisteapot for the rest of my life
waiting for someone to pay me$800 for it.
I was like, let me list it forlike $350.
And I went in a back and forthwith this man, the people trying
to really get the deals, butthen, after everything was said
and done, I ended up selling itto him, and I made $250 off of
that Awesome.
Kim Chapman (27:25):
So, Jannie, in your many years with the Fellowship
Center, what do you think hasbeen like your biggest mind?
Find that you turned around andwas able to sell for the
fellowship center and bring inthat money.
Betty Mujica-Milano (27:41):
Sure.
So one day I was in the back,going through my treasure pile,
as I call it, I found severalboxes of these glass figures
cars, planes, cannons, boatships and so forth and some had
what looked like to be littlecandies.
And I'm like, well, what arethese?
And I'm like, oh my gosh,there's tons of them.
And so I'm like these willnever sell, I'm never gonna make
.
There's just too many of them.
And so I went, let me load upthe car and I will.
(28:02):
If there's a lot of things thatI need to do a little bit more
research, I'll put them in thecar, I'll take them home.
So I did.
I loaded all these things up inthe car and, um, looking at
them and trying to ebay them soforth, well, come to find out
they were from the early 20s.
They were antique candycontainers that they were for
kids, made of glass, and, like Isaid, they were cars and trains
(28:25):
and planes and figures and allkind of different things.
So there was just so many ofthem and so I'm thinking, am I
going to sell these?
So I went.
It's got to be a Facebook groupof these people.
So I went on Facebook and putin antique candy container
collectors or whatever.
Lo and behold, there's one Ofcourse there is, with about 85
(28:45):
people in it.
And so I set up a card tablethat we had at the house and I
lined them up by category and Ishot a video saying, hey, my
name is Johnny and I'm from theFellowship Center and I have
these.
What do I have, can you help me?
And so I sent that out, postedit on that Facebook group,
joined the group and put it onthere and people went crazy.
(29:07):
They're emailing me and they'reFacebooking me and that kind of
thing.
And so it got to where I waslike here's my number, call me.
So I sold these things in toCalifornia, florida, illinois,
north Dakota.
In the end we made about $3,000from these antique candy
containers.
Kim Chapman (29:25):
Oh, my God, Wow, that's awesome.
And while, of course, thepremise of this show is making
income, but of course it's moneythat you're putting back in the
community, so tell us a littlebit about where that $3,000 goes
.
Betty Mujica-Milano (29:39):
So all of the proceeds that we make from
the Fellowship Center.
Of course we have utility billslike anybody else electric,
water and so forth and then thefew employees that we have.
We pay them as well.
And then somebody goes intoreserve for repairs and so forth
and things that we may need inthe future.
But then a lot of it goes backto our financial assistance
office where people can come ontypically Monday, wednesday,
(30:01):
friday, and they meet with MsBrenda and she assess their
needs and it could be help withutility bills, car repairs and
so forth.
So we basically give all thatmoney back to the community.
None of it is done withanything else other than the few
items that I mentioned, and soyou know the building's been
repainted, we've put new ceilingtiles in, led lighting,
(30:23):
security you know differentthings like that.
So some of it goes to that.
You know that.
But the bulk of it is to goback into the community, and
that doesn't even include whatwe provide to families through
the food pantry, and so that'swhere all of our funding goes.
Kim Chapman (30:37):
That's awesome.
Question can this stuff bereturned On eBay?
Yes, have you sold somethingthat somebody said?
You know what I don't like this?
Can I give my money back, or doyou have a return policy at the
folks?
Betty Mujica-Milano (30:52):
So our policy is basically no exchanges
, no returns.
Now there have been instanceswhere there's been an unusual
situation and we've done that,or maybe there's been a slight
overcharge and so we just makeit good.
So in general, no, because youare at a thrift store, it's sort
of as is kind of thing.
So I typically don't put outtorn or ripped or stained things
(31:16):
.
Now, do those slip by?
Of course they do, and so ourcustomers, thankfully and we
have daily customers that comeevery single day they'll say,
hey, this is ripped, oh, thankyou for showing love it.
Or hey, this is broken.
Now, if I find something thathas a chip in it but it still
has a lot of value to it, I puta sticker with an arrow so that
people can say, hey, I'm justletting you know this has got a
chip in it, and then I reducethe price from there and go from
(31:38):
there.
But again, in general we don't.
It's no returns.
Johnny Manela (31:42):
Yeah, so eBay is kind of the same way.
Since I'm the store owner of myeBay store, I get to set the
policies in my store Since, likeI said, I'm trying to move
inventory out.
I'm not trying to move inventoryin, and I'm usually selling
things for a really good price.
And I accept offers, which isanother feature of eBay.
(32:03):
Somebody can send you an offerand I always leave all my items
open to get an offer.
Um, I'm so sorry, um, but Idon't accept returns.
Um, I will again in certainscenarios.
If someone's really unsatisfiedor somebody's really upset,
(32:25):
I'll deal with that on acase-by-case basis, but for the
most part I put pictures up ofevery single part of the item.
Like, I will go through andtruly like, do close-ups.
If there's a pit stain, you'regetting a close-up of that.
If there's a little hole in theback, you're getting a picture
of that In the description.
I make note, like please viewall the photos before you
(32:45):
purchase.
There should be no reason thatthey feel surprised by what they
got once they got it, becausein my pictures I try to include
everything that's going on withthat.
Kim Chapman (32:54):
So you're not trying to make Motel 6 look like
the Taj Mahal.
Johnny Manela (32:58):
No, ma'am, I'm not.
I'm not trying, I'm not puttinglipstick on a pig.
You're getting what you'regetting.
Look at the pictures.
Kim Chapman (33:03):
All right, a couple of final questions before we
wrap up.
Johnny, what is your advice forsomebody that wants to get
started and they want to be ableto come to places like the
Fellowship?
Is there a certain day of theweek that's better than other
season of the year?
How can we find the really goodfinds?
Is it Sunday night, rightbefore closing that?
Hey, you're going to markeverything down.
What's your tip?
Betty Mujica-Milano (33:24):
So at the Fellowship Center we are on a
daily basis renewing our stock.
So new clothing goes out everymorning, knickknacks and so
forth, maybe not necessarilyevery day, but frequently.
I think, as Betty has mentionedin some of her comments, you've
got to become educated.
Look up things Google Lens,eBay, watch YouTube videos.
(33:46):
Find out if you have a niche.
I mean, I have certain and wecall it the Johnny Club, where
we have certain people thatcollect certain things, and so I
have their names and numbers inmy phone.
So if, let's say, Betty'slooking for a crystal bowl, I
may find this fabulous crystalbowl and I'll text her and say,
hey, I have this, it's Waterfordand it's 50 bucks, Are you
interested?
And she may come in to buy it.
(34:07):
So there's not a particular day, but I do post quite a few
times during the day.
Our Facebook followers, as Imentioned, our Facebook
followers are over 1,800.
So they're watching and they'relooking for things.
I have collectors that havestores in New Orleans, Lafayette
, and they will comeperiodically and load up and
(34:27):
then they resell it, and so forthose some of those, we do make
deals on, because again, I'mtrying to move it and get rid of
it so I can put new stuff out.
I have a unlimited supply ofthings that are ready to go out
at any given time.
Kim Chapman (34:38):
And I tell you it's a really big market because
when Betty and I were outshopping, immediately she
identified another you knowperson that was thrifting for
income and it was like they werehaving this big conversation.
Emcee (34:49):
So you know, it's kind of like what are you doing here?
Kim Chapman (34:52):
You know, nobody's in there shopping to buy stuff
to take home.
So, betty, what is your advicefor somebody that's just getting
started, like I heard youmention earlier?
Maybe start with some of thestuff at your house, because I
tell you, if there's a name forthis episode, it is one man's
trash is another man's treasurethere is something out there
that somebody that you don'twant but somebody else is
(35:13):
willing to pay for.
Out there that somebody thatyou don't want.
Johnny Manela (35:14):
But somebody else is willing to pay for.
Yeah.
So I would say definitely, lookin your own house and take your
Google lens out.
Like I said, just download theGoogle app and when you pull it
up, instead of typing in thesearch bar, there's actually a
picture button.
So you just press that picturebutton.
It pulls up a camera and goaround your house and just be
like.
I haven't worn this shirt for ayear.
Kim Chapman (35:35):
I'm not going to fit it again.
Yeah, it's been 10 years.
Johnny Manela (35:38):
Take a picture with your Google Lens and see,
you know, see how much it mightbe worth.
You'll find whether the item iseven being listed online, or
you know, or if it is like andit's being sold for $20, might
as well give it a shot.
Also, another great thingpeople have a lot of junk in
(36:01):
their houses and you might findsomebody's just doing some
spring cleaning.
Go to your parents' house, Belike you, trying to get rid of
any of this stuff.
Let me help you out.
Betty Mujica-Milano (36:10):
And then grandma's house is a great place
.
Grandma's house is a great.
Grandma's house is a greatplace.
Johnny Manela (36:15):
Yeah, um, and it's also great because it's
like your parents andgrandparents need help cleaning
out their houses, you knowanyways.
So maybe you can strike up adeal with them and say, hey, why
don't we list some of thisstuff online and we can split
the profits?
Um, another thing, and this isgonna sound crazy, but I've sold
things from the side of theroad.
If your neighborhood is a typeof neighborhood where people put
(36:38):
random stuff on the side of theroad, you better stop.
I found a hat.
I found a Stetson cowboy hatside of the road free.
It had stains on it andeverything.
I sold that thing for $300.
I paid $0.99 for that hat.
I paid $0.99 for that hat.
So really it's like deals andsteals and things that mean
(36:59):
something to somebody are kindof everywhere.
So never discount somethingbecause there's somebody out
there looking for that toy candyholder from the 20s.
There's somebody out therelooking for that Taylor Swift
concert T-shirt.
So it really is.
One man's trash is anotherman's treasure.
Kim Chapman (37:17):
And the bottom line is, if you want to thrive
financially thrive in 2025, thisis how you can do it.
It doesn't matter Do you needto start an emergency fund?
Build your savings, pay offthat debt a little bit at a time
, fund that vacation.
It doesn't matter.
This is an opportunity that youcan do on the side.
It's not going to take fromyour main job.
It's an excellent opportunity.
(37:38):
So I'm going to thank ourexperts our resident expert,
betty here she's going to helpme get a better eye on that
thrifting and Johnny, thank youso much for joining us.
My pleasure.
Emcee (37:52):
It's time for Blueprint Building Blocks Small changes
that lead to big financial wins.
Let's stack up for success.
Kim Chapman (38:01):
If you're ready to make income from thrifting,
start small and experiment.
Start with the little thingsthat you have around your house.
Put those up for sale and seehow you do.
If you're not certain where tostart, be sure to research
prices first.
Use tools like Google Lens tohelp you set the price and then
(38:23):
make those profits.
You can definitely make incomefrom doing it, and be sure to
watch our YouTube page and ourFacebook page, and if this
episode helped you get into themarket and make some income from
thrifting, drop us a line andlet us know.
Emcee (38:38):
That's a wrap on today's Blueprint Building Blocks.
Stay on track with yourfinancial journey.
Subscribe to the Money Matterspodcast and visit
neighborsfcuorg slash financialwellness for more tools to help
you build a strong financialfuture.
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