Updated 2-10-23

Hey there everyone I really hate to do this and this embarrasses me to do this for some reason although I'm being told it shouldn't. I need help badly. As most of you know I've been trying to accomplish this dream of mine for a while and I worked incredibly hard and I'm talking blood sweat and tears literally just to get where I'm at so far. I started this a while back in the beginning but then I got offered a small little spot to use so I figured I would use that and work at it myself, you know earn it not just ask for help. As grateful as I am is so small and the location is tucked back on property where I can't advertise and you can't see it from the road it's almost impossible to do the volume I need to do to survive doing it back here. I found a place right next to the Chevron in front of Mr Bill's plaza and I met with the lady and she dropped it to 1500 a month from 2000 a month for the first year. I know 100%. This would take off and be so successful right there with that location. The support I have from the community has been astonishing and I am so forever grateful but me and my son just need a little bit more push... I've asked a few people should I give up and quit now or do I risk losing everything and go a little further. Everyone has told me push a little further I'm almost there. I possibly have someone to help financially get into that building but they can't help me until I get a business license in the city of Buckley business license etc which all cost money and me being a single dad I am not able to get there with my rent, rent on building I'm using now and for my storage units that have all my inventory in it. I just got locked out of my storage units three of them, I'm facing getting evicted if something doesn't change soon either. Once I do my income taxes I get about $5,300 each year and that's going right towards it as well but that's sometime away. At least a few weeks and I don't know if my landlord's going to hold off that long and by then I will lose my storage units completely. So I'm on here begging, pleaseing and praying and asking for help. I don't want to have me and Blake live in our car and I'm really scared for that. Even the money I do get it goes to those things but the next month is already coming around the corner and I still haven't paid all of January. I know this can be the success that it's meant to be I know it can and a lot of you out there believe in me as well and I think you guys know what we try to do or add to the community. Just all the stuff that it's done so far has been great. It's inspired my son to start his own group that picks up litter on the side of the roads on the weekends, it's helped other people with stuff they've needed, or help them get rid of their stuff they don't want etc. This place is already done so much good that I would hate for it to stop now when it could be so much bigger especially in the location it would be in there are people in and out all day. People get their gas they would wonder, what's next door? So I'm really asking even $5 people, if everybody threw in a dollar, five bucks or anything it would make a huge difference! And if you can't help that way that's totally fine your prayers would be so very much appreciated and also maybe just sharing it? Sharing it would show your people that it's not some sort of scam or anything like that. What I'm hoping to do is 4500 for 3 months rent up front... 300-400 bucks for all the licenses and whatnot permits etc. 1600 bucks for my rent so I don't lose our home... And the rest would be towards the shelving cash register computer to get going and have somebody selling and listing on eBay and doing live auctions on other apps. So it wouldn't just be the brick and mortar store that would be making money that would have somebody posting on eBay all day just churning items out left and right and then a couple nights a week we would do our live auctions on another app where each night would make a couple hundred bucks probably. You would take donations of course and we would help anybody we could help. I don't want us just to be a store, I want us to be like a big family and a staple in this town. I want people to know that they get into a gym or they need something they can count on me and my son Blake to be there to help. So please, please help us out so you don't use our place or our inventory. Thank you so much and this took a lot to ask again I've been struggling with it for a week or two. And I won't forget the people that helped that down the road I will have my list of people that will be getting their money back or pay it forward either one. Thank you and God bless you guys and I love each and every one of you with all my heart and I love this town with all my heart ❤️

Hey there! My name is Daniel Bradford and I live in Buckley Washington. Well kind of on the border of Bonney lake and Buckley Washington. I'm 39 years old, single father to the most beautiful amazing person I know, my son Blake ❤️(whom a lot of the people in our community know :-) or at least know of). It has been a dream of mine all my life till one day open my own store like this. It's not just a regular old thrift store, we are going to have new and used items. I buy storage units at auctions and I find a little bit of everything needless to say. So it would be a store that pretty much sells the contents out of them. Since I now have over three storage units full of inventory and have been selling on all sorts of selling platforms as well as showcasing my storage units, I think it's time. It seems like my community is behind me on this the people of Bonney lake and Buckley support this as well. Well everybody I have spoke to is excited and have already expressed interest in shopping there and being a regular customer! It's going to be a store that's for everybody. Every week it's going to have new inventory constantly shuffling in and out. Will have anything from clothes, new and used, records, dvds, tools, toys, furniture, kitchenware, collectibles, antiques and vintage items, China and pretty much everything you can think of. This store is going to be a platform to also help my community in so many different ways. From the housewife that makes beautiful jewelry or arts and crafts at home and sells them here and there online, will be able to put their stuff on our shelves with their business cards and whatnot. To the family that have a garage full of stuff and no time to sell it, I would be more than happy to give up some space and do consignment or even just do you the favor. This is going to be a store that keeps its word and helps the community by participating or holding events regarding cleaning up the town (litter etc) which me and my son do on a bi-weekly basis already. We will pick a road and just walk on down at picking up trash with our little trash picker upper things :-). Organizing blanket and coat drives for the homeless which we do on our own but now we could do it in more of a professional capacity and a bigger scale. This is going to be a store or I can share my story with other people that may or may not be struggling with anything in life and I can share with them where I was 5 years ago compared to where I am today. It's very important to me to show my son and teach him that if you put your mind to something and you have a dream don't let anybody tell you no and you fight for that dream and you put in work and blood sweat and tears to make it happen, then it could happen. I'm already putting in 13, 14, 15 and sometimes more hours per day cleaning, posting, sorting all of the inventory I have and continue to keep getting. I already feel a certain way doing this starting one of these but I've been doing some research and it's not shameful or bad to ask the community for help being as this store will be yours more than it will be mine. I want people to come in and know our names and grab a cup of coffee and talk a while... I want to be the store that when there's a tragedy with a family or something terrible has happened they can call us and we will have plenty of items to donate and help get them back on track. I want to be the store that people know they can come and get stuff that normally couldn't afford in other stores yet they can afford it here. Being a single father but no help from anybody or anything except a very gracious and very kind landlord who has been letting me flood the place with more stuff and inventory, has been extremely difficult in regards to saving money for this. As soon as I get a little bit ahead then I go back. Feels like I go three steps forward two steps back. Sailing all the inventory I have is very time consuming and tedious and the money comes in very slowly but if I had a store or everything was on the shelves and I was open I know it would be very successful. Especially being as I buy storage units and get the items from there so every time you come into the store you won't know what to expect there's something for everybody there literally. So I'm asking & praying please, if you can help make this dream come true and help get these doors open, I promise to you in my community and everybody that I would never turn my back on them or forget what got me here and I would never ever take advantage of my customers by overcharging for items and lining my pockets. That is not my goal whatsoever. My goal is to help others however I can which I do during my daily life and just be stable and have something to leave for my kids. I know I'm asking a lot I understand that, but you all will see and I guarantee that you all will love this store! If you can't donate anything whether it's a dollar or 100 bucks, I pray and I ask that you at least share the link and get the word around. That sometimes is more helpful than anything. The community is actually the people that chose the name for this business which is great because I think it's amazing! The location will be in Bonney lake most likely but possibly Buckley I have two spots I'm looking at right now and going to be working out the lease agreement with the landlords but it's hard to do we need to negotiating with nothing. I have all the inventory, I have the drive and the passion and the attitude, and I have the will to push through anything to get through this and get to the end goal. I'm also possibly open to anybody that would want to talk about possibly investing, maybe for a percentage of the business maybe for a set amount per month something along those lines I am more than open to talk about. I just want to get these doors open!! So for those that know me and know the kind of heart I have, you know this will be a great success and a great benefit to our town. I'm sure the people that don't know me will be skeptical because of people fraudulently doing these things. But I can assure you and I promise you this is going to happen! Thank you so very much and me and Blake are both extremely excited and nervous but that little 14-year-old is my biggest cheerleader and we share our dreams together and it's going to be a great thing to show him to not quit when something gets hard and push through and you can make your dream a reality 100%! Thank you all, everybody! I love you all very very much and each and every one of you make this world a better place every day that you're in it! Please reach out if you have any ideas or anything of the sort. ❤️

Daniel Bradford