I posted four books on half.com and have sold two! I have mailed them and have $5.94 profit off the two despite they sold for $4 a piece. The $2.64/each shipping allowance covers the $2.41/each postage, But it doesn’t really cover the bubble envelope that I found at dollar general for $0.66/each. I need to find an envelope for 23 cents or less. Any ideas? The only thing I’ve found close was 35 cents but I had to buy 100 from uline.

I wouldn’t worry much if I had pricey books, but the out 41 books I looked at, only 4 of them could be sold for $1 or more. The rest were all $0.75 so far. If I can’t find packaging that would be less than 23 cents, I would really only get 21 cents profit. And what’s the point of that?

I got an email today from Wells Fargo. My personal checking that holds my weekly allowance is no longer going to be free. There will be a $7/month fee starting mid-September. Well, that is unless I direct deposit $500/month or keep $1500 in it… which is hard when I only have a $10/week allowance. Hah. So time to get a new checking account.

Although I’m half tempted to just make a “sub-account” in my joint checking instead and just use that to make my purchases. I don’t really want to open another account at this moment. What’s funny is my husband’s personal account isn’t changing, but it’s probably because he had gotten it as a student account initially. I used to like Wells, but I’m beginning to change my mind.

Also, it seems like Netflix has raised its prices, but is removing watch instantly shows – no more Up, District 9, Babylon 5… We were just going to downgrade to watch instantly only, but now we’re more than half-tempted to drop it all together. It was the one frivolous thing we were going to allow, but maybe not.