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Spreadsheet updated. Congratulations on your win, Christine, and Julie and Sharyn got their armpit points. Well done!
Lacy, what a wonderful weekend to have with your Dad! Especially after all the elder abuse issues you were dealing with. I’m thrilled you get to have this precious time with him.
Sharyn, perhaps I’m not pressing the back button fast enough? Or I’m on the wrong browser or something, because no, it’s usually gone. Glad it works for you, though. I think the SL software just doesn’t like me, if often calls me a spammer because of my anti-virus.
Wishing you all a terrific week!
After writing a whole long post, I hit Submit and got taken to the You Must Log IN page – losing everything! I closed down the window in disgust.
We try again! If at first you don’t succeed…
Skydiving is not for you!
LOL. Seriously, Jules, so sorry to hear about your furble. Sending best wishes for fast healing and a happy kitty.
Listed five. Not brilliant, but I’ll take it! It’s 100% better than the previous five weeks, right? Yay! The temps here are in the triple digits already (it was 105’F when I went to bed at 10PM last night) so I’m having to schedule work time around which room is the coolest. Start first thing in the sunroom. When it feels like a pizza oven, move on – and repeat. LOL.
No armpit work for me either. Hope to get to it in the next few days.
Wishing you all a great week.
Spreadsheet updated, terrific win there, Julie! How is all this listing working out for you? Are you getting good sales in return? Obviously you’ve found your listing system that works for you.
Good luck with clearing the floor, Christine! That sounds like a great holiday, Sharyn. What a haul, Lacy! That is my kind of shopping, I love doing that! Unfortunately, no shopping for me until I have cleared some space either by donating or selling. I’m maxed out! So jealous of your JSX flight, VT, I’ve been wanting to try them for years. I’m just waiting for them to pick up a route that goes where I want to be.
Love that everyone is checking their armpits! Hehehehe. Julie, have you tried Folex on that dress? I was given an expensive beaded coat/jacket with old, old stains on it and the Folex lifted them right out with no marks or damage.
I have a printer that I started parting out and listing and the items were selling… but I lost momentum and now I have half a printer sitting in a crate taking up space on the floor. I’ve got the big glass platten and it’s not particularly heavy, but the idea of actually shipping it and not having it break is daunting! I’ve also got two lampshades that are huge and ostentatious and I’m not sure if I even want to try. If I can clear them this month, it will be one more of those “I just don’t wanna!” issues resolved. By “clear” I mean list the printer parts and decide whether to list or donate the shades.
Posting early in excitement. No, unfortunately, not excited at my listing numbers (zero) but at finishing my “new” set up!
This is almost all my inventory, both listed and Death Piles:
I have clothes and shoes separately, hence the ‘almost’ all.
And my work area is on the opposite wall:
A few small items still to put away and find homes for but, for the most part, I’m ready to get back to work. Utterly thrilled, y’all! Himself is “it’s nice, dear” but I knew you guys would get it! LOL.
Watch out for me hitting the big time next week!
Spreadsheet updated. Clear win for Christine this week, well done!
It has been a while since we had a pop up challenge. I think it’s time!
This month is The Armpit Challenge!
You know how nobody ever looks under your armpit? Some days it’s clean and pretty, some days it’s gross and smelly, some days YOU don’t want to look under it! Well, you have a listing (or 2 or 3) that fits the same description. You know the one, that listing that you’ve been wanting to get up and sold but you just never quite get there. It’s too big, or needs too much work, or requires a ton of research, or has to be cleaned, or….
Whatever your reason or aversion, it’s time to man up (woman up?) and get it done!
I’m going to give you one point for each item you LIST in this category (must be an Armpit item!) up to a maximum of 4 points – one for each week of the month. If you do more, give yourself a pat on the back. These points will count towards the end of year champion.
For funsies, share your armpit listing and tell us why it’s taken you so long.
It wouldn’t work in a day, but for future reference and if you have the time, put a banana in the bag. Give it 2-3 days, or a couple more, then toss the banana. You need to be careful of the banana going bad and leaking, which would be dreadful, so don’t forget it! Lol. The banana will go black but it seems to soak up the stink.
LOL. Sharyn, you’re so funny! Yep, I also looked at the calendar with something approaching horror!
Well done Christine! Back with a vengeance! That’s some great listings number there.
Me, still a big fat goose egg. Moving is a huge job and when you move AND do stupid things like painting and furniture switch-outs and stuff, it turns into a marathon! Fortunately I am getting near the end of the stuff in the garage, so I plan to get back to listing this week. I still have a ton of stuff to do in the sunroom and guest room, but I’ve got my grandson coming to visit over the summer, so I need to get as much listing as I can clear before he arrives, so as to free up some fun time.
Correction: Julie, you only posted today. Lacy wins as she posted yesterday, per the rules. Spreadsheet will be amended accordingly when I get back to my PC
Our first tie for the year! Well done to Julie and Lacy for great numbers!
Lacy, done and CONGRATULATIONS! That’s just marvelous and exciting and … frugal! Very pleased for you!
Good for you for listing DP items, VT!
We’re now heading into the last month of the first half of the year. Kinda scary, ain’t it? LOL. Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead and good beginnings for June.
Oh – and use your shipping coupon! Having reminded you all last time, I completely forgot!
Wow, Jules, you’re just killin’ it this year! Congrats! Spreadsheet updated with your win.
Lacy and VT, you did great making your goals. It must be great to empty out an expensive storage unit, Lacy!
On my part, still busy with The Big Move! Almost done, thank goodness, but it has been horrendous. As part of the cabin was my sewing stuff (which was one of those things that I had to get around to and never found the time) and as the new area is open to public viewing, I had to make the time to organize all my fabrics and sewing items. On the one hand – woot! On the other – holey toledo! One of the downsides to lack of organization is being unable to find or get to your stash… so you buy more. Hubby and I are both spending time getting ourselves organized into our respective spaces and we are both thrilled at being so ordered. We’re also both feeling the same “sheesh, if I’d known I had this, I wouldn’t have bought…” 😀
This week will probably be the final winding down of organizing so I’m hoping that I can fit in some listings too. Hopefully I’ll get back on the board again.
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Awwww… thanks, Lacy! Glad your dad’s divorce is finally getting there. You have had the worst time with this! May he live the rest of his days happy!
LOL. That’s so sweet, Sharyn, thank you! Actually, it was my idea. I like being in my home and now, with all my “work” areas in the same place, I think I will be more productive. Not only that, The Naggerator is now nearly 600 yards away. Peace and quiet is worth giving up a cabin for! I got the garage for eBay, the sunroom for my sewing area, and the run of the house. I can do some housework, go work eBay, do some more housework, dance a little, do more eBay, go work on some sewing projects. It’s fabulous. I’m loving it! Plus, if I wake at 3AM, I don’t have to lie there counting the times the fan blades swing by. I can get up and go do listings! 😀
Re Shingles, I had chicken pox twice as a child and have developed Shingles as an adult. I’ve had multiple bouts of it, 5 attacks in the last two years alone. They gave me the Shingles vax part 1 and I threw such a terrible reaction to it that they refuse to give me part 2 or the other vax brand. Doc says reduced immune system, high stress, lack of sleep, can all contribute to a Shingles outbreak.
Spreadsheet updated. What a couple weeks, Julie! Congratulations on absolutely trouncing the rest of us! What great numbers!
I can’t remember if I mentioned that Himself and I decided to switch business premises. His business has absolutely taken over the house and mine has been shrinking as I’ve gotten rid of all my big stuff and have begun to work towards getting a niche developed. So we decided he would do well in the cabin. So the first weekend of the month was spent painting the living room, as I mentioned when I last checked in. All the contents of the LR were piled in the spare room and the sunroom. We had to wait a week to see if that awful color bled through (it didn’t) and I tried to work around everything piled everywhere, with my computer precariously perched on the table so that I could do the invoices for Himself’s business. In the interim, I packed up my cabin stuff and the 2nd weekend of May, the Big Move began.
It’s a bit like trying to move house when the previous tenant of your new home is still living there! We ping-ponged from one building to the next. He cleared a bit, I cleared a bit and moved into the bit he cleared. Back and forth, back and forth. It took us about 5 days of backbreaking work to get the bulk of it done. I still have one filing cabinet of stuff, plus one high-up shelf, and most of my shipping supplies. However, they’re out of the way and Himself said I can leave them until I’ve gotten the rest of the space organized.
Finally we were (mostly) “moved” and then began the organization. I spent a lot of time holding something in one hand while I scratched my head with the other. Where does this go?While I have reduced my stuff, I hadn’t reduced enough. I downsized from a 600 square foot cabin, where I had allllll the space, to the two side walls of a 20 foot long garage. Call me Mary Poppins! Himself is absolutely loving inheriting the one wall of filing cabinets (I knew he would!) and has commented a couple times about how convenient they are. For years (years I tell you!) he has argued with me about wanting “so many filing cabinets!” Now he’s having his EUREKA! moment. LOL
As of 9PM last night, I was still frantically working long hours. Toda I finished at 7PM and have to admit that I’m seriously pooped! On top of all this moving, we’re still running all three businesses and taking care of the ranch and the home. I’m done in. However, while Simon can just close his door, most of my areas are in the public view. I guess I can close the garage down, but the sunroom has glass French doors and the guest room is right next to the guest restroom. So I’ll be running on fumes for another week or two. Ce la vie, I guess!
Again, sorry for leaving you all hanging! This year has been a humdinger, hasn’t it?
