few things I figured out. build multiple resource bins of the items you use most, ie. herb bins for potions. the alchemist is good to start with since suggesting a healing potion seems to be a good work around if you're out of an item to sell. also if you're going for the medium badge you can keep building the max work tables then deleting them every day. otherwise just upgrade your bins. hope this helps...
get a bow to shoot barrels for extra gold. don't stand too close or you'll get all blowed up. you can also use the space bar and your melee attack to break some items. not a great idea to use that method on the barrels though, again with the all blowed up result.
the game is pretty solid except for the save game bug. gotta put the blame on Kong for that one. they should have realized the game had a major flaw before giving it badge status.
Maybe you just ate a mushroom pizza?