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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3371 - Q&A: “Any tips for buying stuff at flea markets to resell?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Reselling is the easiest way to get started making money apart from your job. What are some tips to get started, and how can you find items to buy and sell?

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 



Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Let's buy some stuff at flea markets and resell it.

0:08.9

This is something everyone can do.

0:10.5

It truly is one of the easiest ways to get started making money apart from your job.

0:14.9

I talk about reselling from time to time because it is, in fact, one of the easiest ways to get started, making money apart from your job.

0:21.8

And it doesn't have to be a flea market, by the way. It could also be a yard sale, garage sale, thrift store, charity shop, swap meet, whatever they call it where you live. So if you want to get into this, as I said, easy side hustle category, if you want to get some experience, perhaps, before trying something else.

0:36.6

How do you do it?

0:37.6

Like what are some tips to get started?

0:39.1

How can you find items to buy and sell? If you want to get some experience, perhaps, before trying something else, how do you do it?

0:58.9

Like, what are some tips to get started? How can you find items to buy and sell? It's funny, because yesterday we had this question about fake luxury goods. Can you sell information for where people can find fake luxury goods? And I said in my answer, that may not be the greatest idea. Like, there's probably something better you can do. Well, guess what? Today's episode, something better you can do, perhaps. Here's how you can buy and resale items completely legally without any sort of gray area and so on. Detailed question from our caller and my answer

1:04.1

coming right up. I'll do my best to give you some helpful tips. I make thanks to our partner

1:09.6

Notion for sponsoring today's episode. Notion is a pretty cool tool. I've been to our partner, Notion, for sponsoring today's episode.

1:12.5

Notion is a pretty cool tool. I've been using it for years. And now they've got something new.

1:17.4

Notions, all new custom agents. Custom agents. Just imagine if like all of the quick questions

1:23.7

that you get from email or direct messages or something else. What if they disappeared? And an AI

1:29.3

agent took care of them, but also did a good job. Well, with Notion's new custom agents,

1:34.4

the busy work is handled. A Q&A agent can pull from your existing knowledge and notion,

1:39.3

share answers directly in Slack, so your team gets the instant answers it needs without constantly interrupting

1:44.8

your own work. I've been playing around with custom agents. It is a fun and helpful process.

1:49.3

And just in case you don't know, Notion, it is an AI-powered, connected workspace for teams.

1:53.8

Notion brings all your node, stocks, projects into one space that just works. It is seamless,

1:58.5

flexible, powerful, and actually fun to use. With AI built in,

2:02.4

you spend less time switching between tools and apps and more time creating great work.

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