forget it altogether.
Don't think about the small stuff... set your goals high, and work towards it. Trust me, it's not going to work if you want to earn $1 here or a $1 there, totally not worth the time and effort.
Find yourself some wholesalers, then hit ebay to sell those items... My Biz partner and I just started up a project with wholesalers and we're already making over $1k a week via ebay, this is our 3rd week already and we only put in about 2-3 hrs a day into...