I decided on a stay-in day today. I got 15 things ready to list but only ended up listing 8 of them as I just kind of "ran out of gas" and eventually went to bed, telling myself I'd sleep all I want.
I woke up at 4, thinking it was 5. But it was 4, and I stayed in anyway. I found and packed things, although one thing has disappeared as things do so often around here. It wasn't even listed that long ago, and there are two of them actually, and just poof! Gone.
If I end up selling on Ebay from Hawaii, firstly I'll follow Don Lancaster's rule of never selling anything I can't hold in one hand out at arm's length. In fact if I'm smart I'll just stick to seashells, jewelry, and books/ephemera because all of those things are pretty small and easy to ship. Seashells get a slight edge as I don't have to buy them to resell but just pick them up.
I rather like the idea of running a business where my expenses are so low I don't even bother to write most of them off.
Best of all being a business where nothing physical changes hands, which is why busking is such a good business. Get an instrument that doesn't eat strings, reeds, batteries, etc. and that's really the best. And don't be the kind of performer that "needs" booze/cigs/Kratom/crack/heroin etc. to ply their trade.
And do a performance that's in keeping with the local culture. Trumpet's the winner on all these counts for the mainland, where "Look at me!! Look at me!!" is an esteemed personality trait. Hawaii, being more and more an extension of Japan, is the opposite.
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