Reseller Hangout Podcast - Jason ButlerJump into Jason's 5-day Thrifting Challenge:  https://mymoneychronicles.com/ThriftingChallengeRob: What's up guys, today we are honored to have Jason Butler here withMy Money Chronicles, so excited to hear his amazing journey and some great tips that he has about paying down debt with his reselling side hustle. Jason, welcome!! Jason: Thank you for having me. I'm looking to share my story. Rob: Awesome. Melissa: Awesome. Jason, we're so glad you're here. So tell everybody a little background about yourself. Jason: My name is Jason Butler. [00:01:00] I run the website, My Money Chronicles, where I talk about side hustles, personal finance, and my personal debt story as well. I started out, graduated from college in 2008. I was excited, happy to get the degree ready to get into the real world and make that $50,000 with that first job.Unfortunately, when I graduated in 2008, nobody told me that the great recession was going to happen. It took me a year and a half to find my first full-time job, and during that time, I had to make a decision. Was I going to pay my rent and my cell phone bill? Or was I going to pay student loan debt and credit card debt?I had to have make the decision. And that decision was that I needed my phone for job interviews and for companies to call me back and I needed to pay rent because I needed a place to stay. Let's just say, well, I made the right decision on one hand. The other hand, it allowed me to get into of debt. And this actually happened for, I want to say the debt accrued for about two to three years [00:02:00] before I started getting a, before I got a better high-impact higher paying job.And literally I had years where I was going back and forth, doing good and doing bad. So around 2015, I decided to get serious. At that point I had $72,000 worth of debt, student loans, credit card debt, and like a couple of other small bills. And I had to figure out some different ways to pay it off because these jobs wasn't going to help me just do it by myself.So I started trying multiple side hustles and side hustle that I stuck with was flipping things online. I'm selling items on eBay and other platforms. And from here, from there every year, the income has been going up. Rob: Awesome. And I know there are so many people out there that can relate to your story. You get out of college, it's not everything that you expected. You have to pay off that college loan to do it. So there are so many people out here who are in that same exact boat. So kudos to you. We give you credit, you kept working with what you had and you kept going. You found a [00:03:00] sweet side hustle that we all love. We love flipping, so a little passionate about, great job on that, for sure.So yeah, now let's get a little deeper with it. Melissa: So you've been selling since 2015. Is that what you said? Jason: Yep. Since 2015, I got serious with it around 2017. In 2015, I probably was making anywhere between a hundred to $200 a month. Now I'm making atleast $1,200 per month selling on my multiple platforms. And that amount is going to get a lot higher than that. Melissa: Awesome!! I love it. So what are your platforms that you use to sell? Jason: I think we sell on at least six different platforms. Ebay, Mercari, Poshmark, Offer up, Facebook marketplace,Craigslist. And actually recently I started selling on Next door and it's done does pretty well from time to time.Melissa: Huh? I haven't thought about selling on next door. They have a, so they have like a special place for marketplace? Jason: Yep. They have a marketplace. This is actually called it's on a tab called Finds. And [00:04:00] you can just upload your stuff right there. Cause I do a lot of cross posting on that site. Melissa: I love it! Yeah, that's really cool. I have the, the app, but I don't put it on like it's I just get an email notifications and I'm like, there's a lot of drama on this app, so I don't know Jason: You are hun