00Start Here & The Three Screens
Why the buy decides the outcome, the three screens on one spread, where the money in a single flip goes, and the honest page about what this bag will not do.
- 00-Start-Here-and-The-Three-Screens.pdf
Furniture Flipping LaunchBag
Buy used furniture, improve it by an amount you choose deliberately, and resell it locally. Built around the one decision that determines whether you make money.
Stop a bad piece for free, work out the most you may pay, do only the work the price supports, then let your own record sharpen the next buy.
Real pages from the bag. Open one to read it.
Introductory price $29. $39 starting Oct 25. Introductory price through October 24, 2026. From October 25, 2026, the price is $39. One purchase, yours to keep.
Checkout on Payhip. Your download link arrives by email right after payment. Refundable until you download, final after that (refund policy).
What’s in the bag
Numbered in the order you’ll use them. One guide that teaches the decisions in the order they happen, one workbook that runs the three screens in a single tab, the documents you fill in and keep, and eight cards you carry. Five files, and every one of them exists to make a buying decision better.
01The Furniture Flipping Playbook
The whole business in the order the decisions happen, from what to walk away from to what your own record is telling you.
- 01-The-Furniture-Flipping-Playbook.pdf
02The Flip Workbook
The file the business runs on. One tool runs all three screens in order, and refuses to price a piece that should not be bought at any price.
- 02-The-Flip-Workbook.xlsx
03Compliance & Selling Kit
The documents you fill in, send and keep, including the compliance step for refinished furniture that almost nobody mentions.
- 03-Compliance-and-Selling-Kit.docx
04Curb Cards
Eight cards: two you carry to decide on the spot, six for where the work happens.
- 04-Curb-Cards.pdf
- 5files
- 54PDF pages
- 1spreadsheet
- 1Word file
- Researched August 2026
All 5 file names
- 00-Start-Here-and-The-Three-Screens.pdf
- 01-The-Furniture-Flipping-Playbook.pdf
- 02-The-Flip-Workbook.xlsx
- 03-Compliance-and-Selling-Kit.docx
- 04-Curb-Cards.pdf
All 5 files are in the ZIP; nothing is held back for an upsell.
A closer look inside
Pages and spreadsheet views from the files you download, not mockups. Open any one to read it.
What you’ll be able to do
Each one names the file that does it.
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Know the most you may pay, before you hand over cash
Take what the piece really sells for near you, subtract everything it will consume (materials at the fraction you use, your hours, the fuel, the space it occupies, the cost of selling it), then subtract your margin of safety. What is left is your floor. The decision becomes a comparison of two numbers instead of an argument with yourself.
Playbook ch. 6 · Workbook: Buy or Pass · Card 2
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End a bad piece for free, in thirty seconds
A stop screen you run before you get your phone out: water-swollen board, smoke in the carcass, pests, a structure with nothing left to hold a screw, a live recall, and the categories this bag stays out of. No price fixes any of them.
Playbook ch. 3 · Workbook: Buy or Pass · Card 1
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Tell what something really sells for, not what people hope for
Sold prices and asking prices go in separate columns, because an active listing is not proof that anybody paid that. The workbook states in words how much to trust the ceiling it gives you, and downgrades it when there is no sold evidence behind it.
Playbook ch. 5 · Workbook: Buy or Pass
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Do less work, on purpose
Four transformation levels with an honest bias toward the cheap end, and one question before you choose: will the likely increase in what this sells for justify the extra money, labor, delay and risk? More work does not automatically create more value.
Playbook ch. 7 · Workbook: Buy or Pass, Calibration
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Know when a full refinish cannot pay, whatever you paid
A five-hour refinish costs five hours whatever the piece is worth. Run your own numbers and you find a threshold below which there is no purchase price, not even free, at which it works. It is one of the most useful things you can know about your own market.
Playbook ch. 7 · Workbook: Buy or Pass
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Complete the compliance step almost nobody mentions
CPSC’s own guide for resellers says refurbishers and upcyclers are considered manufacturers, and describes a reasonable testing program and a General Certificate of Conformity for refinished furniture. CPSC says no third-party laboratory is required for non-children’s products. This bag ships both as forms you fill in, with the rule and the structure already in place, and is careful about what the guidance does and does not settle.
Playbook ch. 10 · Compliance & Selling Kit docs 1–3
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Recognize the categories to walk away from
Cribs, bunk beds, chests with falling lids, mattresses and upholstered pieces, with the specifics, so you can decline confidently at an estate sale rather than wondering. The default position is to leave them alone, and the bag explains why rather than waving.
Playbook ch. 3 · Card 1
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Work without hurting yourself
Five hazards where the mechanism is not obvious and the control is cheap: unknown old coatings and the dust you make from them, wood dust, strippers and ventilation, drying-oil rags that ignite with nothing to light them, and pests that travel home in your car.
Playbook ch. 9 · Cards 4–6
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Sell locally, get paid safely
Natural light, honest flaw photos, dimensions in the first two lines, and the payment failure modes that actually happen (verification codes, payment links, screenshots as proof, deposits before inspection), with the short rules that make all of them harmless.
Playbook ch. 11 · Compliance & Selling Kit docs 4–7
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Replace this file’s guesses with your own numbers
The workbook ships conservative factors for how much longer jobs take and how much more they cost than you think. After four finished pieces it swaps them for yours and tells you it has, then reports what the work paid per hour and what your space earned per week.
Playbook ch. 12 · Workbook: Piece Log, Calibration, Money
Who it’s for
- You want a small local business you can start this weekend with a car, a strap and a few hundred dollars.
- You have looked at a piece of furniture and had no idea what it was worth or what you should pay for it.
- You enjoy the making part and suspect you are not making money at it.
- You want to know which of your pieces actually paid, and by which measure.
Who it’s not for
- You want a refinishing course. There is a great deal of free content on sanding, priming and painting, and this bag does not compete with it.
- You want to be told which brands, styles or colors sell. Pricing is local, and a national list would be wrong where you live.
- You want an income figure. There is not one anywhere in this bag.
- You want to flip couches, mattresses or cribs. Those are out of scope, and the bag says exactly why.
Six phases, one gate
Start Here gives you the roadmap and every file shows where you are on it. Phase 4 is the gate, clear to buy: no stop condition, a ceiling you can point at evidence for, and an asking price at or below your floor.
Read the Playbook chapter for the phase, fill the Workbook tab it points to, and move on. Cards 1 and 2 live in your pocket from your first sourcing trip; the Compliance & Selling Kit is filled in once and then used per piece.
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Understand the business, and your two postures
You can say what this business actually is, why the buy decides it, and the difference between selling a piece as you found it and selling one you refinished.
Start Here (00) · Playbook ch. 1 -
Set your rules and costs, once
Your hourly rate, your margin of safety, your space, your mileage rate and every dated row you will verify later, entered once and rarely touched again.
Playbook ch. 13 · Workbook (02) Your Rules & Costs -
Go and look at something
A real piece run through STOP, a ceiling built from local comparables with its confidence stated, and a floor you calculated. Most of these end in a pass, and that is the system working.
Playbook ch. 2–6 · Curb Cards (04) 1–3 · Workbook (02) Buy or Pass -
Clear to buy
No stop condition present, a ceiling you can point at evidence for, a floor that accounts for everything the piece will consume, and an asking price at or below it.
Workbook (02) Buy or Pass · Curb Cards (04) 1–2Clear to buy -
Transform only as much as justified, then sell it
The smallest transformation that clears the defect, done safely; the compliance workflow completed if you refinished it; photographed, listed, negotiated, handed over and paid safely.
Playbook ch. 7–11 · Curb Cards (04) 4–8 · Compliance & Selling Kit (03) -
Read your own record
Your own hours and materials factors replacing the shipped seeds, your own days-to-sale by category, and three separate views of what the work actually paid.
Playbook ch. 12 · Workbook (02) Piece Log, Calibration, Money
What it doesn’t do
- No income figures, per piece or per month. Every published figure we found traces back to someone selling a course, paint or software.
- No price tables. No universal dresser price, no brand premium, no colors that sell. Pricing is local and a table would be wrong where you live.
- No promises about how fast anything sells. Days-to-sale is a number you measure, and the workbook turns yours into a planning figure.
- No legal or tax advice. Where something depends on your state, city or platform, the bag says so and names where to look.
- No upholstery, mattresses or bedding, because several states regulate anyone dealing in used upholstered goods, and you do not need couches to build a viable business.
- No nursery or regulated children’s furniture. The default position is to leave it alone, and the bag explains what to recognize so you can decline confidently.
- No refinishing course. There is a great deal of good free content on sanding and painting, and almost nobody fails at that part.
- No fabricated before-and-afters. There are no invented pieces, sales, buyers or screenshots anywhere in this bag.
How it was made
- Researched to a saturation rule rather than a source quota: 48 source clusters, stopped when further searching only repeated what was already established.
- The compliance spine was taken to primary text. CPSC’s own reseller guide, the lead-in-paint rule and the certificate requirements were read at source, two of them via the Internet Archive and an API, because the agencies block automated fetches.
- Every dated claim is primary. The one figure that could not be reached at source, a marketplace fee, ships as a row the customer verifies, never as a fact, and nothing in the economics depends on it.
- The workbook is generated by a script and tested by 39 independent scenarios computed by hand from customer inputs, plus 178 formulas evaluated in a separate engine.
- A QC pass run separately from the build found that the buying tool’s model was wrong: it charged the operator’s hours and then demanded a margin on top, so it rejected a flip that plainly paid. The fix changed the product rather than patching the test.
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Before you buy
The questions people ask about this bag. More on the support page.
Is this a course on how to paint furniture?
No, and it says so on page one. There is more free content on sanding, priming and painting a dresser than you could watch in a year, and almost nobody fails at that part. What ends these small businesses is paying too much, doing too much, buying something that cannot be fixed, and counting the wrong number, all of which happen before a brush comes out of the drawer.
How much money do I need to start?
Less than most businesses, and the bag deliberately does not put a figure on it. You need a car, a strap and a blanket, the price of your first piece, and materials counted at the fraction you use. The workbook tells you the most you may pay for any piece before you hand over cash, so your first purchase is sized by the arithmetic rather than by a shopping list.
Why is there no list of what sells?
Because pricing is local and lists rot. The same dresser is worth materially different amounts in a large market and a small one, and the traditional furniture that looks most valuable at an estate sale is often the hardest to move. You get the comparables method instead, and the method keeps working.
What is this compliance thing nobody else mentions?
CPSC’s own guide for resellers says that refurbishers and upcyclers are considered manufacturers, and its furniture pages describe a reasonable testing program and a General Certificate of Conformity for refinished furniture. CPSC says no third-party laboratory is required for non-children’s products. The bag ships both as templates with the rule and the structure already in place and brackets for your details, and is careful to separate what the guidance says from what you should verify for your own situation. It is not legal advice.
Do I need a truck?
No. The bag is scoped to hard furniture a person can move with a car, a strap and a blanket, and it prices transport into every buying decision at the current mileage rate. Delivery is treated as a priced service rather than a favor, with the arithmetic shown.
Will it tell me what to pay for a specific piece?
Yes. That is the central tool. You enter local comparables, the work you intend, the miles, the weeks you will hold it and the margin of safety you want, and it gives you the most you may pay, converted into a maximum bid if you are at auction. It refuses to give a verdict when you have not entered any evidence, which is correct.
Does it work in Google Sheets?
Yes. The workbook uses only functions that exist in both Excel and Google Sheets, and that is checked by script: every formula is evaluated in an independent engine, and every dropdown, validation message and print setting is verified before release.
What if I already flip furniture?
The buying tool and the calibration are the parts that will be new. Most people doing this well have an instinct for the buy but no record of whether the instinct is right, no separation between profit per piece and profit per hour, and no view at all of what their space earned. The workbook gives you all three from your own rows.
Why does it keep telling me to walk away?
Because most of what you look at, you should. The most valuable skill in this business is avoiding bad inventory, and a kit that made you feel confident about every piece you saw would be doing you harm. A beginner who passes on ten pieces and buys the eleventh well is ahead of one who bought the first.
Is there an income claim anywhere?
No. There is not a single earnings figure in the bag. The two figures other people repeat (what a typical flip costs, and the multiple people aim for) appear exactly once, attributed as what operators report, inside a section about how to read other people’s numbers.
Get the Furniture Flipping LaunchBag
5 files: 3 PDF guides (54 pages), 1 spreadsheet for Excel or Google Sheets, and 1 editable Word file. One download, yours to keep.
Introductory price $29. $39 starting Oct 25. Introductory price through October 24, 2026. From October 25, 2026, the price is $39.
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