[Episode 6] Wife joins store-based reselling for the first time! A couple's side hustle challenge 🚗✨ One step at a time toward retirement funds

🌱Synopsis up to the previous episode:

My husband tries store-based reselling for the first time.
He picks up actual items to evaluate them and calculates potential profits using Mercari sales data.
He finally takes the plunge and purchases a genuine leather wallet, but the story unfolds with the wife feeling anxious about whether it will sell.

💡Highlights of this episode

To support my husband, who is struggling to find profitable items, I, the wife, finally step in to help.
The actual experience of sourcing and the reality of a couple's reselling tour will be presented.

📌What you can learn from this article

🔰 Preparing for store-based reselling with enthusiasm

Even though my husband was visiting recycle shops, he couldn't find any profitable items, so I, his wife, decided to join him on weekends when I was feeling well enough.

Since I have an underlying chronic illness, I always carry emergency medication.

In addition, to save on household expenses, I also prepare snacks for when we get hungry, rice balls, drinks, wet wipes for cleaning hands, and trash bags.

I haven't fully recovered my physical strength or health from being almost bedridden, so I do this within reasonable limits. I prepare so that I can return to the car and rest immediately if I get tired.

Since I do not have a second-hand dealer's permit at this point, I am strictly just helping my husband.

Once preparations are complete, we finally head out by car as a couple to visit stores!

📜 Rules of thumb for store-based reselling

Notes I learned on YouTube about important things to keep in mind when doing store-based reselling at reuse shops.

🔷If you can't find profitable items

I went to my first store with the above six points in mind.

👚 My experience up until then and what I felt at the first store

Until then, my only experience with reuse shops was having my husband drive me to suburban stores to sell off our accumulated unwanted items.

Some stores were neat and tidy, while others were dusty and poorly cleaned; some staff were friendly, while others were blunt...

And even though I would wander around the store while waiting, Ihad never bought used clothes, even though I love fashion.

Yet, I found it strange that I was trying to source and sell items as a business for my retirement funds.

However, when I picked up items and looked at them closely with a sourcing perspective, I realized thatbasically, many of them were properly laundered and still quite clean.

Some were even sold with new tags attached, and I realized, 'I see, they must be buying up unsold inventory from retail stores in bulk...'

Depending on the store, I learned for the first time that they don't just rely on household items to fill their inventory, but also buy up wholesale and retail deadstock to build their lineup.

And if they had new tags or were relatively clean,

🌀 Can't the wife source items either!?

As a wife, I joined in to help for the first time, but I couldn't find anyprofitable items at all, and I keenly felt that 'it really is difficult'.

Even when I thought, 'Could this be it?', I felt a lot of resistance to taking out my smartphone to search, and I did it timidly while worrying about the staff and the eyes of those around me (lol).

But when I looked around the store again, I realized that the people I had assumed were just regular customers were actually...

"Are they actually a sedori seller...?"I encountered people who seemed like that at every store.

There were people with baskets in both hands piled high with clothes that were clearly more than any ordinary family would need, and others busy searching on their smartphones in front of the products.

——It was the moment the scenery I had been looking at changed.

And there I was, taking too long to search for each individual item, and even when my husband and I searched with our eyes peeled, we ended up finding nothing and our efforts were in vain.

Even so, it was funbecause it was a rare outing, and while we ate lunch in the car during a break, my husband and I talked:

>Wife: "What about that...? It's a bit scary for us to stock, but maybe an expert sedori seller could stock it...?"

>Husband: "That's true, I'm sure we'll find something at the next store."✨
We had a fun chat, holding onto faint hopes like that.

It was like a picnic, a mini-trip, or a drive date; the time we spent together as a couple was a very enjoyable moment.

(To be continued)
*Some real names and details have been omitted, and the content includes fiction.

👉Next time, the couple is struggling to stock... Will the wife succeed in her first purchase!? (Planned)

❤️If you can relate, I would be happy if you could quietly support our couple's challenge with a "Like♡" or a follow🐰✨