The great Kamakiri $10 experiment

[bgadow]

I've thought of experiments like that myself from time to time. I've had a number of things that I made out like a bandit on-stuff I got for free and sold on ebay. I think the best such deal was a pickup load of tapes that a local radio station was giving away for free (bunch of carts with top 40 pop music, and oodles of big open reels of easy listening). The latter, especially, sold very well...that free load eventually netted me over a thousand dollars.

What I've considered: could a person just start out walking, and sustain themselves on what they could find/what oddjobs they could do? Could you pick up enough spare change to buy a bargain in a thrift store, then resell it for a tidy profit? Ideas...