I had a Brutha tell me one day that if a man owns pick-up and he doesn't make at least $50 a day with it then it means he never left the house.
Randy, I have no idea what part of the country you are from but owning a pick up truck has saved the lives of millions here in the north east. Legal or illegal, that truck can be a gold mine.
The weekend scavengers have existed since the American Indians followed waggon trains to pick up the items the people left beside the track due to needing to lighten their load.
One can in fact make good money grabbing stuff others throw out to be picked up by the city. Old appliances from air conditioners, stoves, refrigs, tubs to toilets. A remodeling job has counters and sinks that can be rehabilitated, windows and old solid doors are a good find.
Antique dealers keep an eagle eye out for the distruction of older buildings, be it historic homes to library's or city buildings. Then there are the people that haunt ship salvage yards for the ships clock, the wheel, motors or anything from the propelsion system.
Then there are the idiots that just look for construction sights for copper and what ever. These are numb skulls, get caught and do time. I had a acquaintance get caught ripping out brand new airconditioners from a building site-------5 years he got.
Just one $500.00 pick up truck can start a BIG business. Like all businesses if you have a kid over 20 years old living at home you have to teach them what is just junk and what is valuable. One has to look ahead at what in the future people will be looking for.
One essential need is to befriend someone that works at a city or town dump. They will alert you to prizes that come in for distruction and will sell them to you for Penny's on the dollar.
The Rub comes in as after one gets some goodies, one has to know how to bring it to a state of sale. Here is where the real work comes in, lots of reading and practice to make an item worth money.
There is no way I am going to do as some others do, end up with a child who refuses to work or gives me any excuses on why they cannot pay child support or why they get pregnant every year and live in my cellar expecting me to baby sit their kids.
If the kids cannot find a job, make them volunteer in the comunity, I find it interesting that the old folk that make excuses for their kids not working, when they pass on the kids suddenly become self sufficient and better off then when Mom and Pop supported them.
Your friend was correct, if for instance you live in the Tidewater area and have a kid over 16 that cannot take a string and 2-3 chicken necks out and catch blue crab to sell to those willing to buy in the ghettos, then you have a dumb crap kid on your hands.--Or YOU are making them dumb--don't complain when they quit school or end up in jail.
