Wired For The Bottom Line

She started out buying antiques to add to her stock. "I was seeing stuff for auction that would take years of searching to find," she says. Then she thought of combing through her apartment for items to sell ("I was always a pack rat") and found that an old Disney toy from the early 1980s was worth $85. We won't even mention how much she got for her Beanie Babies.

Yeo uses the cash she makes to travel to more antiques shows, where she buys collectibles to auction at high profits. "You go to shows and the main topic of conversation is eBay," she says with a laugh.

The bottom line? Yeo hasn't touched her savings since she became unemployed. By the grace of eBay, she says she'll never go back to a "real" job. She hopes to gross more than $100,000 this year, and is more than halfway there already. Not too bad for a pack rat.