I don't think anyone reasonable hates you btw

hell yea

you can definitely make some money selling shit people throw out for free. generally requires patching it up. if you have the ability to go to a rich people neighborhood and look there they tend to throw out perfectly good stuff fairly often.

no one that matters hates you, and i think that includes most people here on the 'bear .

i know negative voices ring the loudest but please remember they're the minority and objectively wrong

I don't hate you, I just get upset seeing comrades infighting.

My recommendation if this is the route you want to take is find some buy nothing Facebook groups. My mom finds all sorts of shit on there.

This is more involved and requires some capital but I know people who got into doing local only overstock auctioning.

But they bid on pallets from places like target, Costco, home depot, etc, and putting the stuff they get on their own auction site.

They don't ship. They don't deliver. So if you win an auction you have to go pick it up. From what they tell me it's doing well.

Not that I think this is something anyone can do, but as people buy less the over stock will become more abundant.

It can be a pretty solid way to make money if you know what to look for. Bikes are a good one since demand is always high

I hope it works out! Also I hope you know a lot of us don’t hate you. To me you’re a valuable member of our community and I’m glad you ask for help here.

Acquiring items, fixing them up, and selling them was how I made money through highschool/after I graduated. I mostly focused on computers since I love tinkering with them. But I'd buy them broken/dirty, clean them, upgrade them, then when I'm bored of playing with it sell it.

If you can find the right niche you can make some good money off it. And as a wise man once said: "If it's free it's me."

I dont think anyone on here has a parasocial relationship enough to hate me. I barely remember the usernames of people I engaged with even.

I don't know if it is that people hate you, I think it's more people get frustrated, because they want to see your life improve, rather than be at a standstill, but sometimes just "surviving" is all we can manage, and some of us have longer periods of our lives where survival is the only thing we can focus on than others do. At least that's my thoughts when I see your posts.