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Wow, you did well, ChristineR! Great job on the working on the business part of it!
I started working today but got ripped away with a medical emergency. I’m rehabbing a dog and it got into a fight today. Unfortunately, I don’t think she can be successfully rehabilitated, so now I’m in a fight to save her life. If we can’t keep her, the chances of me finding a home that will suit her are very slim, and she’ll have to be euthanized. π
But.. it’s only Monday. Great things can happen in six days!
Week #1.
Rather ignominous start for me considering I started this challenge! LOL. Last week just threw stuff at me that bumped eBay waaaaay off the To Do List. Oh well, when you start at rock bottom, unless you hire a payloader and start digging, the only way to go is up!
#items listed: 5
#items from Death Piles: 5
%age DP: 100%
New Inventory purchases $21Thanks Jay.
Life has been hectic lately, so I was wondering if I could get away with listing regularly, as in every week, rather than daily. I really need to bump up my sales. I had a dismal year last year and I want to make eBay my main income stream this year, so I need to do something to make it happen. Not trying to outsmart the system, just trying to do what would be most effective in getting the system to work for me.
One of the best weddings I went to was a ceremony in the cute little building at a local park. It looked a lot like a church, which satisfied the religious, but was conducted by a JP. After the wedding, there was a table with drinks and cakes for the guests. Once everyone had left, a select party of about two dozen people, joined the new couple at a BBQ at someone’s home, I think the in-laws. The wedding ceremony was everything the bride’s mother wanted – white dress, solemn vows – and the reception was everything the bride wanted – a raucous party with special friends. It was brilliant!
Q: What do you call someone who canβt stick with a diet?
A: A desserter.Two guys were out walking their dogs on a hot day when they pass by a pub.l The first guy says “Let’s go in there for a pint.” Second guy says, “They won’t let us in with our dogs. First guy: “Sure they will, just follow my lead.”
He goes up to the pub and, sure enough the doorman says, “I can’t let you in here with that dog.” He replies, “Oh, I’m blind. This is my seeing-eye dog.” The doorman lets him in.
The second guys watches and does the same thing. The doorman says, “You can’t come in here with a dog.” He replies, “I’m blind and this is my seeing-eye dog.” The doorman responds, “You have a chihuahua for a seeing-eye dog?” The second guy exclaims, “They gave me a chihuahua?”Teacher: “If I gave you 2 cats and another 2 cats and another 2, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “No, listen carefully… If I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you two apples, and another two apples and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Six.”
Teacher: “Good. Now if I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven!”
Teacher: “Johnny, where in the heck do you get seven from?!”
Johnny: “Because I’ve already got a freaking cat!”How do you throw a space party? You planet.
I bet the person who created the door knocker won a Nobel prize
Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded in france? There was nothing but des brie
Do you know sign language? You should learn it, itβs pretty handy
And the last one, in honor of our weather:
What should you do if youβre cold? Stand in the corner. Itβs 90 degreesYou guys are making me feel better about my DPs! LOL. You have as much as me and it’s as haphazard. Love you all! π
Sharyn, perhaps somebody will offer to Twin with you. If not, and if ChristineR agrees, we can Triplet until a Twin turns up.
Wow. I was quoted DOUBLE that for business insurance. I’m going to direct my broker to this thread!
Interesting to see how much listing impacts sales! Thanks for starting this, Retro!
I’ve had a very poor year for sales, mostly because I’ve been so busy with everything else. I would love to ramp up my eBay business this year and make it my main income stream.
My current active number of listings is 455. I plan to reach 1,000 listings by the end of the year and make a minimum of $1,000 per month, so pretty much doubling both listings and income. I look forward to the comparitive chart for next year! π
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Closest to design that I could find was VMON, but I didn’t find any of that brand with the V alone.
My guess for an actual creature is an Elasmosaurus or Plesiosaurus but, if you want to go with the mythical/hypothetical, you could consider the Megalotaria aka the Loch Ness monster.
I like your goal wording to “reclaim space”! Lovely alternative to the ubiquitous ‘declutter’. I’m with you on that one!
Welcome to the group! π
My husband wants to hike the AT. I don’t know if he will ever get around to it. If I can get the business going well, he might, but he’d worry about me having to take care of the ranch on my own. Are you going to post a blog or something of your Colorado trip, T-Satt?
Hey ChristineR, it’s Twins Time!
If anyone ever wants a major Death Pile motivation, take photos of everything and share them on the Interwebz. Cringe! Well, I started it, so I just blocked out any PII and will cringe anonymously behind my monitor. LOL
Here are my Death Piles. As you can see, a right hodge podge. As mentioned earlier, my outdoor shed is DP 1 and there’s a photo of it sitting, all alone in a field. It’s 8′ x 16′ and FULL! π In total, there are 14 DP Zones with anything from one box to a hodgepodge of mixed items.
Each Monday, I will post the total number of items listed, and how many of them are DP items. Shall we work our challenge as percentage of listed items is DP? So, if we list 100 and 70 are DP, we get 70% for the week. If we list 10 and 7 are DP, it’s still 70%. That will make it more of a weighted average, and less about actual numbers. I’m okay with that or with straight numbers, either way.
My goal is 5 per weekday, or 20 per month; of which I hope to list 90% DP.
Ready? Go!
Hey Mike, thanks. Yes, I know about Outlook and Gmail has something different but that works on similar lines. However, while you are trying to be helpful and I do appreciate that, I don’t WANT any more emails! I want to log into the forum and have a quick access “firehose” kind of thread. That way, when I have the time/interest for SL items, I check into SL and browse. When I’m interested in chickens, I go to that forum and hit the Recent Posts. For blogs I use an RSS Reader. I want to reduce my inbox traffic, not add to it. I know that a lot of folks feel the same way about email. I also have seen several folks ask for this feature, so I was trying to give Jay a real-world example to look it up. If he chooses not to add it, that’s his prerogative, and I’ll suffer (wink!) through searching the forum manually. But I still won’t subscribe for any more emails. Thanks, but my email account gets too much stuff already.
Appreciate you taking the time to explain though. You probably helped somebody else with the info. π
Hey folks, seeing as the Twin idea is a bust, how about just challenging anyone? Doesn’t have to be a similar store, just somebody who wants to be motivated to list and wants to reduce their Death Pile. Measurement metrics are number of items listed each week, and how many of those items were DP items.
Challenge anyone you’d like to make your twin.
ChristineR, my Death Piles are so scattered, I’m not sure how to catalog everything for the Challenge, but I’ll try to get photos up by tonight of the largest bits! Um… can I just log one outdoor cabin 8×16′ as Death Pile 1 and not photograph it? It’s packed to the ceiling with stuff and the photographs would just show a jumbled stash similar to a Hoarders Unlimited show! π
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