We found boxes of stored china, a fairly nice old set, in the crawlspace under one of our homes.

If you can find duplex that you can buy with fha to house hack or single family with in law store to rent out that’s what I would do.

You could order the materials and have the contractor pick them up from the store.

Get a wreath for the door from the dollar store.

It is sad to see people in their sixties and seventies stand behind a cash register in a grocery store or Walmart you just know they hoped to never end up there; yet there they are and actually I find them inspiring!

I recently purchased two boats for my own leasure and realized how difficult/expensive is to store them and how cheap a lot with a run down old home on a busy street is within 5 mins driving from the lake (expecially with issues of fire damage, asbestos etc) .

I go to the rekeying station at a hardware store and they usually have a bucket of keys.

I remember the CBD stores turned into dispensaries almost overnight.

Maybe enough for a bike and some suitcases. 

People need to be transported there for a good reason. 1)Maybe a company is moving there or they need workers for some kind of especial mine.  2)I have been to Bakersfield myself, it is a desert not that many stores, and a forgotten town of California near Route 66 but that might change.