Creative glass blowing techniques to get started?

So this is a question me and my girlfriend have debated and all creative input is accepted and awesome. We want to get a small glass blowing operation going on at home. (We have experience with this her more than I.) Anyway we already have a very nice torch so we pretty much need to get everything else. We don't have too limited budget but it's more limited in chunks. So we can't get everything in one shot but were going to more chip away at is as we need money to go toward other business related things. Here's the main question: In order of importance what should we buy first and last. So should we get goggles first since we can't blow without them? Or should we get tanks first being that there is some creative ways to get around the goggles thing temporarily?(that's just bad example but you get the idea.) Also what creative tricks have you learned to save money on glass and resources etc that would be good for people starting up for the first time on their own? We are planning on doing all lampwork some pipes and things just to make money but we would like to do small wine glasses and thing like that too. Any tips and advice welcome thank you! Sorry if I come off like I don't know much about it she's more the expert I'm just writing the question!