My weekly paycheck is about $300, after taxes and payments for health benefits. That's all I have to work with, business-wise and personally.
This might be a source of encouragement to people who think that they don't have enough money to invest in their own businesses generally or Sports Cards specifically.
Anyway, for a sole proprietor like Myself, you have to be as proficient in "Home Economics" as you are in "Business Economics". I had wanted an upright freezer for a while, and I finally got one. It cost about $160. But, now that I have the extra space, I can take advantage of sales. These three blocks of steak were fresh but discounted. I saved $23.85, and they are sitting snuggly in My freezer. I've done stuff like that about four times, so I'm more than halfway to breaking even. After I do that, it'll be like money in my pocket until the freezer breaks, which shouldn't happen for at least five years.
I am having to wait to see my investment show fruit (or, steak and frozen pizzas). This is another lesson to prospective entrepreneurs living in a world which expects large and immediate returns: real enterprises take a lot of time, investments, and hard work to payoff.
