By the time Earl was ready to train me to take over his shop, he was too old to do it the right way. Earl was never good with knowing how long things took, and for some reason he thought that my training could wait until a few weeks before his 70th birthday. At this […]

For the last few years I have turned the internet into my side business. I find things online for cheap, I buy them, and then I turn around and resell them in a different markup for a huge profit. It’s all about knowing what people want, and figuring out how to find it before they […]

When I first went away to college I fell head over heels in love with Jessie. We met in building construction school, which is an incredibly rigorous and work-intensive program. We were together for over a year, and then she got a new interest in life. She didn’t want to be an architect or a […]

I love going to yard sales and garage sales, but what I really love is the flea market. Do you have flea markets in your area, or are they called something else? I went to something called a “swap meet” one time, and was surprised to find that it was basically just a flea market. […]