you should be able to buy resources (at a very high price of course) because money in the game is basically worthless since at level 20-30 you most likely have all the things from the shopkeeper
very fun game i can only see one downside, the wife system besides the fact that you cant devorce *just for fun* and the fact that lvling them takes forever and then the no reset sucks, Because when you first start out with a wife you dont know what the hell they do.
We're working on some updates that will make Lemonade stands (and all the early investments) much more interesting. :)