Last summer there was a post by the Buffy page I "like" on Facebook that showed a Buffy themed t-shirt for sale at a site called TeeFury. They sell a different shirt everyday. In other words, it's impulse shopping for people who like pop culture mash up t-shirts. The shirt was okay, but I had to have it because the only other Buffy shirt I had was just okay, too. I'm a fan of Buffy, you see.

And it was only $10 (plus shipping, which made it about $13). Oh yeah, did I mention if you didn't buy it that day, you'd never get to buy it again? They call this a limited edition.

So I started going to TeeFury every day to see what the design of the day was. Which lead me (eventually) to a few other t-shirt a day sites. After buying myself a few more shirts, I realized the holidays were coming up. Eventually I bought most of my family shirts as presents.

It's a little addictive. And since my style has always been jeans and a t-shirt (pretty much since high school), this saves me actually shopping for casual clothing.

Ram, one of my drummer friends, has his birthday about a week before mine. A few of us were downing a couple growlers of local brew to celebrate, and I was wearing a Breaking Bad/Calvin & Hobbes mash up tee. Mr. White and Jesse in their RV a la C & H. And the conversation turned to selling these things. Or reselling. Or something like that.

After doing math in my somewhat drunken head that night, I did a bit more research. There were a few other people who were doing this. But with so many shirts and designs (and companies), the field was somewhat wide open. Especially with a national marketplace (I'm not shipping out of the country at the moment) like eBay.

I decided, fuck it, let's do this. Initial investment of $500 or so wouldn't break me, and, at worst, I'd have a bunch of shirts I could wear anyway. Bam, new hobby birthday present for myself. And then, for at least a week, I didn't like any of the shirts my designated companies were selling. I wanted to get started, but then I was stalled. It was frustrating. And it made me buy this shirt because I just had to get the ball rolling:

It's kinda funny. It's kinda interesting. And it hasn't sold.

But I got better choices, and two of them went quick (should've ordered more):

Of course, a little after selling on eBay for a month, restrictions kicked in. I can only list a certain amount until I hit 90 days of selling. Talk about throwing cold water on my hot idea. So I set up a Facebook page (called Mattman's Crazy Cool T-shirts...please "like" it if you are interested) and have been trying to goose eBay into letting me list as much as I can.

It's not going to replace my job. And I'm not going to get rich. But it's kinda fun in that middle age daydream type way. I've got some t-shirts for sale. Most likely you won't find them elsewhere. Because that's part of the point. Once they're gone. They're gone.

Matt Worley likes to advertise strange things on his chest. Probably because he doesn't have any tattoos.