(In case you're curious, in two hours we scored a new volleyball, several phone cases, a two-person inner-tube, cheap jewelry, two boogie boards, and a very nice leather couch missing one leg.

If not then your "cash faux" is just your own money sunk into the house coming back to you!

My wife was more into power tools than jewelry and still trying to lay bathroom tile at 7 months pregnant ... she's a keeper :-) Hopefully by the time you have kids, you'll be ready to graduate to the next step in your REI career anyhow.

Maybe it’s a little less sparkly but most of the sparkle comes from multidirectional lighting like they have in jewelry cases.

Fill the house with haunted mirrors, creepy dolls, vintage music boxes, china figurines, photograph them in place, and you can rotate new  furnishings in an out every few weeks as you sell the old ones on eBay.But the bulk of your revenue is going to come from Airbnb, where you will loudly and proudly advertise your haunted house experience.PEOPLE WILL COME.

or  Faux hand written by a hand writing machine.. 

im all up for investments, i invest in jewelry but i wanna take stuff to another level.

I am doing them a disservice by taking unqualified buyers in (Making them leave for a couple hours, move pets to grandmas, hide medications and jewelry) .

In this order.Curb appeal, fresh paint, clean, well trimmed landscaping, but, try to avoid spending a ton on plants and flowers, etc.Wood(faux) floors(laminate or engineeered) less than $2 per sq for flooring and will be about and extra $2 per sq to install.

Don't go rollin' through the war zone, driving your fancy car, wearin' lots of jewelry!"