Making Money from Junk

I had this problem – my house was a collection of over 20 years of clutter. My mother and the other people who lived in my house, they kept everything. Even if it was broken, rotting, didn’t work, wasn’t used, can’t be repaired, or better off with someone else. In other words, I had over 20 years of junk on my hands.

Obviously, I had to clean it all up. This “whole house cleaning” was something I’ve been postponing because of the laborious hours it would require. But I finally had to do it to make some space for my home office.

While I was cleaning and sorting out the junk, I noticed that most of it was metal, Tupperware, various plastics, paper, and cardboard. All of these can be sold to junk shops.

So I called up the nearest junkshop, and they were more than happy to pick up the stuff from my house.

I earned P 1,000 from selling most of my junk (The other, still useful, things were donated) . It took 2-3 days to purge the house of all of it.

You’re probably thinking “One thousand pesos for 2-3 days! That’s not worth it!” If you’re going to look at it that way, I agree. I would never accept a job that offered that kind of hourly rate (roughly P60 per hour at most).

However, this was something I had to do. These things were gathering dust and eating up space – the space that I needed to be more efficient with work and to earn more money.

Getting P 1,000 in exchange for something you were gonna do anyway is an ok deal by me. Try it the next time you do a complete house cleaning project.