did the math on my Depop "income" and its kind of humbling
been selling vintage stuff on Depop and Poshmark for about 9 months. was feeling good about it, seeing sales come in, felt productive. had it in my head that i was pulling in a real extra income stream on the side.
sat down last weekend and actually tracked everything for the first time. time spent thrifting, washing, photographing, editing the photos, writing listings, answering like 40 messages to sell 4 things, packaging, and driving to the UPS store. then Depop takes 10%, Paypal takes their cut, and whatever you spent on packaging materials.
sold a vintage Carhartt jacket for $65. kept $48 after fees. probably spent 2.5 hours total on that one item from finding it to it leaving my hands. thats not even counting the failed listings that never sold.
i was making somewhere between $4 and $6 an hour. i have a small amount saved up that i was mentally attributing partly to this "hustle" and realizing most of it just came from my regular job is a weird feeling to sit with.
not saying quit your reselling or whatever, some people actually scale it and make it work. but i was treating it like a meaningful income source when really it was a hobby that occasionally paid out. now i only list stuff if the margin actually justifies the time, otherwise it just goes to Goodwill.