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01/05/2021 at 2:05 pm #84939
If you struggle to list, need motivation to list more, or just want to be part of the fun, please feel free to add yourself in on a Monday. No need to ask permission.
The Challenge starts on a Monday, with the relevant dates being announced in Quarterly Threads. Weekly winners will be announced, with one annual winner at the end of the year. Some years there will be a Listing Winner and a Challenge Winner. Prize is feeling good about your listing for the year. And possibly something silly, from me, if I feel like it. 😉
Rules:
- Just list, dammit! It doesn’t matter where you list (eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Amazon, Facebook, OfferUp, LetGo, etc.) just as long as it’s up for sale online.
- Actual listings up and publicly for sale count. Drafts do not.
- No double postings. E.g. if you listed an item in eBay AND Etsy, it’s one listing, not two.
- List anything – new purchases, Death Pile items, your neighbor’s car*. Whatever^. Just list, dammit!
- Post numbers on Mondays. Schedule goes up on Tuesdays. Winners will be announced and their number will be in RED on the spreadsheet. If you miss the Monday deadline, I will update your numbers for the week in the next week’s schedule, but the winner of the previous week remains the same, even if you would have won.
- Listing numbers are number of listings created, not number of items listed.
- Winners cannot win two years in a row. If you were last year’s winner, and you win a week, you will receive an Honorable Mention with your number in BLUE on the spreadsheet.
- Listing Winners are those who have listed the most items as posted in the weekly numbers. Challenge winners are those who have listed the most in response to the monthly and pop up challenges. (For those years when we have both.)
*Ok, maybe not your neighbor’s car.
^Unless he asks you to.A new thread will go up for each quarter for the posting of actual numbers. This thread is for information and general questions about the challenge or listings.
Final Note: This is all about having fun, increasing your weekly listing habit, and having a Tribe of your own as you do it. Prizes, if we have any, are little gifts from me, usually hand made and designed by my crazy ideas. (I’m not wired the same as other folks.) Expect the unexpected. And if there’s two ways to take something I say/write/post, and one of them offends you, I meant it the other way!
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02/20/2021 at 6:19 pm #86067
Monthly Challenge Categories, from 2021
Jan – Death Box
Feb – Paper
Mar – MCM Challenge
Apr – Gold, Silver & Metals
May – Specific Holiday/Season
Jun – Personal Items
Jul – Made in the USA
Aug – Needs Work
Sep – Textiles
Oct – Paper
Nov – Death Box
Dec – Travel -
12/26/2021 at 5:21 pm #94396
Monthly Challenge, from 2022
Identify 10 areas/things/tasks you want to work on for a month. Create a short description of each. Give each description a number. The order is irrelevant. Add two lines marked Challenger’s Choice. You choose which number gets assigned to Choice lines.
You can choose to share your list of items, or not to share. We understand that some items are private.
Each month a random number will be drawn. Work on that task for that month.
Challenger’s Choice lines are open: work on an incomplete previous challenge, or a new area, or take a break from challenges. Only rule is you may not work on an upcoming challenge.For those of you who are old fashioned (ahem.. me!) I have created a worksheet that you can print, fill out, and share a snapshot, if you wish. Find it here.
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01/04/2023 at 11:52 am #98853
2023 Challenge: Next in Line!
This year’s challenge is all about the small wins! We’re all aiming to be tortoises this year and get the big win at the end of the year.
Each week, choose a minimum of one and a maximum of 3 items off your To Do List (TDL) PER DAY. If the item is big, break it down into the smallest possible components you can. Write these down. If the item is big and will take multiple days, each of the small steps count as one for your daily TDL. Then check these items off as you go.
You know what you need to do. You have spent time on the factors to identify what you need to get, do, or understand to clear these up. Now you’re going to play like skittles, line them up, and knock ’em down!
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01/03/2024 at 11:34 am #102053
2024 Changes to the Rules.
Rule #5. Edit to read:
Post numbers in the week beginning on Mondays. This gives you an entire week to post your numbers, with the final day being Sunday evening. Schedule goes up on the next Monday. Winners will be announced and their number will be in RED on the spreadsheet. If you miss the Monday posting deadline, I will update your numbers for the week in the next week’s schedule, but the winner of the previous week remains the same, even if you would have won.Rule #6. Edit to read:
Listing numbers are number of listings created, not number of items listed. The only exception to this is Variation Listings. Here you will practice self-policing. If the work to create a listing with variations is very simple and you feel that it would count as one listing, fine. However, if you had to do a lot of research, take multiple photos, etc. and you feel it would be very unfair to count it as one listing, you can decide how many listings it should count as. Did you list 5 variations, but you feel it was the equivalent of 5 listings? Or it took up about 3 listings’ worth of time? Obviously, you can’t decide it was worth 7 listing. Be honest, now!
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