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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, hear how one college student flipped used furniture from Facebook Marketplace—and paid off half their tuition bill without ever taking out a loan.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | How I flipped Facebook marketplace fines into tuition money. |
0:15.0 | That is today's story. Welcome to SIDISO school. |
0:17.8 | My name is Chris Gillibault, your host. |
0:19.4 | This wasn't actually me. |
0:20.4 | I did not flip Facebook Marketplace fines into tuition money, although long ago when I had tuition to pay, I did in fact do a bit of reselling. Today is a more modern story because I was born in the 1800s. We were all just, you know, using Dialup Internet on MySpace back then. So today, a college student, in fact, |
0:38.4 | a recent one, flipped used furniture from Facebook marketplace, paid off half their tuition |
0:43.2 | bill without ever taking out a loan. That's no small thing in today's economy, of course. |
0:48.3 | So I look forward to hearing that story and sharing it with you. Welcome to Throwback Thursday. |
0:52.6 | This is our weekly segment where we take an |
0:54.7 | in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Last week, it was about |
0:59.1 | guitar pedals. We heard how a side hustler learned to repair broken guitar pedals on YouTube, of course. |
1:05.6 | Built a profitable business, he actually discovered that he made more money from guitar pedals |
1:10.0 | than from guitars. |
1:11.9 | So I think that's so interesting. When you are reselling, often the markets are a little bit |
1:15.8 | maybe different or unexpected. And the way you figure it out is by experimenting. So today, |
1:21.1 | without further ado, let's hear about this college student selling used furniture strictly |
1:25.2 | on Facebook marketplace, maybe some other platforms. I don't know, |
1:28.1 | but I think that's where they focused. So much reselling is happening there on that platform. |
1:32.8 | Of course, no fees. That helps. And they paid off half their tuition bill without taking out a loan. |
1:37.9 | So let's hear the story or the update. I'm going to pass the microphone. I'll be back at the end with a quick wrap up. |
1:50.2 | Okay. update. I'm going to pass the microphone. I'll be back at the end with a quick wrap up. When I was staring down my tuition bill, I felt sick. Even with scholarships and a part-time |
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