Same thing. When I opened my business 4 years ago, I preferred by far whatever trick to maintain my business free of every expensive. For ex., choosing to rely on online material to perform lessons for my students, instead of purchasing expensive books and dictionaries (a lot of time I only had a single student per season, so such a purchase would have been a nonsense and I would have worked always in loss). In the case of my thrift shop, I avoid to rent a physical space (that carries also bills to pay), but I chose a door-to-door activity, selling the old stuff belonged to my mother and her friends, to my grandmother and my used stuff too. So no need to ask for any loan at all. And the opening of the kind of my small business was at zero cost due to the financial laws concerning the smallest businesses.
