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Curious what all of you focus on towards the end of the year, and what your specific goals are this year. Getting those death piles listed? Hitting a certain $$ amount in sales? Clearing out long-tail items or organizing? Doing an end of year inventory?
If it makes anyone feel any better, I struggle with doing the inventory and death piles all the time!
I am at an interesting place with my eBay business where I have a steady reliable income between eBay and my consignment sales. It has been a lot of work but I have built up a nice solid inventory plus a backlog of items which I am excited to list. It’s nice to have options because then you can take chances and experiment. I plan to get really aggressive about selling over the next few months and then move forward from there in 2023.
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In the process of my consignment job for my neighbor, I am finding many Christmas related items. My priority is to get those listed as soon as possible. Second level priorities are coats (many are 100% wool), other clothing for colder weather, anything that would make a good gift, and anything large. Third on the list is to test a few electronics and get them listed. The rest of my goals are to just find enough room by stacking up boxes and bins to store the rest of his stuff until I can get to it.
It has been a pretty overwhelming job, but he and his wife had lived there since the 80’s, and his wife seemed to have an issue with throwing things out.
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The rest of my goals are to just find enough room by stacking up boxes and bins to store the rest of his stuff until I can get to it.
Wow, this sounds pretty overwhelming, and my inventory is all in one room which has about half neatly organized and stocked boxes and bins and the rest kind of a mess. It can be hard to make progress when you’re at your max as far as space goes.
Do you start by throwing out all the junk first? Put like items together? Set aside the good stuff? Or just tackle one box/bin at a time?
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I first try to sort the stuff over at his house. Anything I don’t want to sell, he has different donation trucks come pick up. Anything I deem junk, he will put right in a garbage bag.
When I am organizing at home, I find items I realize don’t want to sell. Those I give away through freecycle or throw out as appropriate. Yesterday, I gave away a standing Christmas bear that was dirty, but I didn’t want to bother cleaning. I also threw away a vintage skirt where the elastic band had lost its stretch.
At the house, I will work on similar things together as best I can. I will want to work on the winter coats together so that I can clean and then list them around the same time.
Today I plan to go through the small Christmas ornaments and group them by style or material or something.
And so on. Best I can do to group things up and work on one category for a while.
I have different boxes of match books, scarves, hangers, clothing, etc. that I will tackle at some point in the future.
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I have been listing my one big bin of Christmas so I need to get the last few of those items sold. I also have a couple more bulky items of my personal Halloween decor I’ve decided to let go of and list. Somewhere I have a small box of Thanksgiving stuff that I really need to look for again. Holiday is my priority though I ought to think about whether or not I have any giftworthy items lying around that are listed. Need to stay away from sourcing and list some things around here. I think I missed the Christmas stuff being put out anyway.
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Need to stay away from sourcing and list some things around here.
I am in the same boat as you, and kept this in mind convincing myself to skip a flea market trip even though it’s unseasonably warm in the northeast today. Pretty proud of that, the great thing about the flea market is that it will always be there.
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Need to stay away from sourcing and list some things around here.
I am in the same boat as you, and kept this in mind convincing myself to skip a flea market trip even though it’s unseasonably warm in the northeast today. Pretty proud of that, the great thing about the flea market is that it will always be there.
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The rest of my goals are to just find enough room by stacking up boxes and bins to store the rest of his stuff until I can get to it.
Wow, this sounds pretty overwhelming, and my inventory is all in one room which has about half neatly organized and stocked boxes and bins and the rest kind of a mess. It can be hard to make progress when you’re at your max as far as space goes.
Do you start by throwing out all the junk first? Put like items together? Set aside the good stuff? Or just tackle one box/bin at a time?
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I’ve been boiling some of my death pile- rusty engineers’ tools and woodworkers’ planes. The desired end-point is a tool that doesn’t look like it’s been aggressively cleaned. I’ve also got a cigar box-full of Georgian and Victorian cabinet keys that were a mass of rust when I bought them. They’ve been boiled a few times; when all the lumps of rust have been gently removed I intend to rust-blue them using hydrogen peroxide, salt and vinegar. That’s going to be a new skill to learn!
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