[LuxLiving]

sort of - I have a junque' booth at an antique mall. I price the stuff at home and keep all records at home, just run over once a week to stock items and straighten the booth. Actually have space in my basement to do this as an actual at-home business once I get my F-I-L's estate items thinned down some and my son's 'moving out soon' furniture out of the basement.

I don't think I'd be comfortable doing it full time in my basement unless I became busy enough to have another person on staff and present with me - which would likely be never in our small town. Maybe once The Hubster retires...but we once had a lady in our town who had a similar setup and she would open her store only upon occasion and run a weekend sale seven or eight times a year. She has since moved away.

Monitarily it is 'okay' money for the time invested. I've had checks as small as $25 after booth rent ($50) was paid and on up to over 350.00. Most fall in the 150-195 a month range, but it keeps me moving items thru my house - I've been a junk' collector for years so for a couple of years now have had lots of my own stuff to sell - I do occasionally buy items at auctions and thrift stores to resell.

I have a decorator's eye and have good display skills and have an inherant ability to price my items right so that they move quickly enough but are not always snatched the first day because they were underpriced KWIM?

I enjoy doing this - I can price stuff while I watch TV in the evenings, stock items on my normal errand day taking me about 20-30 minutes so it's no real effort. The store owner is on duty and I can be off doing other things making it a rather nice little almost passive income. Many of the other boothies have full time jobs and come in and restock on their lunch hours - easy.

I had to come up with the original $50 booth rental in cash, but have made enough sales every month to never have to cough up any more cash, as the booth is paying it's own way.