I’ve left my Etsy shop alone for months now. Here’s how much passive income it makes.

Reese Marie
The Side Hustle Club
3 min readMar 28, 2022

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Passive income. Now wouldn’t that be nice?

If you’re anything like me, you might have put a whole lot of time into building a passive income source only to realize that if you’re putting a whole lot of time into it, it’s not really a passive income source.

My Etsy shop is the perfect example.

I decided to try selling digital downloads, decor that customers can download and print out at home. Why? First because I love paining and designing decor, and second, because I had passive income in mind. Digital downloads means you don’t have to stock inventory or ship physical products. Sounds passive, doesn’t it?

Well, more or less. I’ve put hours of work into building my shop week after week for years. Even though I don’t have to spend time dealing with physical products, I still had to spend a lot of time designing products, creating mock-ups, and maintaining the shop.

But four months ago, I started working a full time job. I found myself unable to allocate much time at all to Etsy. In fact, I’ve largely left my shop alone for the past…

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Reese Marie
The Side Hustle Club

Sent my Domino’s order to the wrong location. Walked across town. Realized I was near a movie theatre. Stowed pizza in my tote my bag & snuck it into the movie.