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Ass of a donkey’s uncle! My #3 is a humdinger! I have to inventory the whole of my F category, which is probably the largest category in my store! Woe is me…
Needs to be done, (true, which is why it’s on my list) but I was really hoping for an easier win for this month. I have SO much on my plate!
What are your #3 challenges?
Terrific, jaepete! That’s what this is all about!
Sharyn, I’m glad you got your photography set up, and very interested in the gray being better. What shade of gray are you using? I bought white and have found that I no longer need to use PhotoRoom to edit the background, but it’s still not as accurate with color. Perhaps the gray is the answer.
Spreadsheet updated and Sharyn wins this week! It looks like a 3-horse race this year! LOL
Now, on to the March challenge, and no, it’s not a typo. Sometimes the draw works this way!
Good morning all! Last day of February for your final day of your Challenge. One last push to get it done! Go on, you can do it!
Managed to juuuuust eke in my 10 listings for the week. Running 4 businesses is a constant juggle and we’ve had unusually cold weather (for Texas) which comes with its own challenges.
Has anyone noticed an uptick in the “I want to cancel this order, I didn’t mean to order it” orders? It’s rather annoying, and I’m getting at least one a week recently. Fortunately, the cancellations have been coming in before shipping (although today’s one came in JUST before the parcel went!) I buy things on eBay all the time. It’s not a one-click event. How do you “accidentally” buy something? Even Amazon’s ‘Buy Now with One Click’ isn’t! At minimum, there’s always a confirmation click required. My rant for today! 😀
Wishing you all a great week. Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for the new challenge number.
Spreadsheet updated, and dwashnc is added. The names are in alphabetical order, so you’re close to the top.
Nice find, VT, how awesome for you! A YTber I watch just recently found a first edition that he is going to sell for a similar amount. And JB found one too! How awesome! I’m thrilled for you that you got some goodies. Those grails are out there!
Sharyn, that’s exactly it. She comes to wash the dogs, and she’s really good at it, but then spends about two hours afterward chewing my ear about stuff that has little to no impact on my life! I have been concerned about her health on a couple of occasions, but eventually figured out she must have gills somewhere and doesn’t need to draw breath. Himself, on the other hand, is the grumpiest old man you could imagine, and nobody talks to him for very long about anything! So I hid out in my cabin and let him deal with the dog groomers. They were in and out in less than 2 hours. They must have been lost, wondering what to do with the rest of their morning! LOL
Welcome, dwashnc, thrilled to have you on board.
Listings count, drafts do not, unfortunately. 😉 For information on how this works, please have a look at this post. I’m hiding from garrulous dog groomers, so I will only be updating the spreadsheet later today, but you will be added to it. We look forward to seeing your posts each week!
Only listed 7 items last week, so I’m behind on my goal, but I hope to make it up this week.
Sharyn, I find I have better prices at small charity thrifts than the chain-style ones like Goodwill or Salvation Army. Usually the small places receive so many donations, they can’t process them all, so they price low to get the stuff out. Women’s abuse shelters, youth aid, and similar places are given a lot of stuff to “help the needy” and so their thrift stores are often bursting at the seams, but the quality of it is often better. Goodwill, on the other hand, is just folks dumping their extras.
LOL. Sharyn, the movie would be called Darwin Award Auditions! If I broke easy, I wouldn’t be alive to write this! I heal so well that doctors’ don’t believe me when I say I’m injured. I also seldom if ever bruise. When I smashed my knee, in a break so severe that they were worried I’d ever walk right again, I splinted my own leg, called the doctor and told her to meet me at the hospital, and when I got there, cracked jokes and made all the staff laugh. They didn’t believe that I was hurt as badly as I said, until the X-rays came in, at which point they freaked out and started rushing around frantically! All the medical staff think I’m a nut! They’re probably right. 😀
Spreadsheet updated, Julie would have won if she’d not been a Previous Year winner, so VT takes the win with an excellent number of listings for the week!
We seem to have lost MyCottage. And UtahBill is MIA, but he always turns up, so I’m not worried (yet!)
Into the 2nd half of the month. How are your February challenges going?
Posted an hour ago and got kicked off for being a spammer again. Forgot to turn off my VPN. Had to wait until I moved to the other network, because I must wait about 24 hours on the same one. Sigh…
13 listings for me and I’m happy with that, considering I only got back to work on Friday. Also completed my February Challenge. One empty shelf; one remote control helicopter, tools, car parts, and dozens of magazines listed. I’m thrilled! As that shelf is narrow, only 8″ tall, and high, I’m thinking I will use it for storage in future, rather than as an active shelf. Things I don’t use often, such as spare tape rolls for my printer, or shrinkwrap rolls, etc.
Thanks for the good wishes, folks. Hand is hugely improved. I’ve regained all use of my thumb, pinky and ring finger, and partial use of my pointer and middle fingers. It’s only been a week, so this is great.
Wishing you all a great week!
Sharyn, I tried with a cardboard box but it kept collapsing and moving and was generally annoying. Shifting to a solid sheet was much better!
Julie, indeed it was! LOL. Went for my follow up to the surgeon. Good and bad news. The bad news is that I have some tendon damage and some loss of function of my fingers. The good news is better – with time and patience (I’ll have to look up that word!) the tendon will heal and most, if not all, function will return. For the next couple weeks I have to monitor for further infection or complications and sleep with a splint at night so that I don’t move the hand and accidentally damage it further. Overall, very positive. And I can return to listing, albeit achingly slowly!
For those with a taste of the gruesome, post surgery photo with stitches etc.
Another P.S.
Here’s the listing for the green shirt you can see in those photos, just so you can see how it worked. https://www.ebay.com/itm/185264310271
Using this new system, I have halved my listing time.
I also use PhotoRoom, as suggested by Julie, but with enough light on a flat white background, that’s not necessary. My new system is a work in progress as I get the lighting correct, and I hope to halve that time again.
P.S. I used my rug as the no-slide edge of the board and a clear plastic wreath holder instead of a hook.
P.P.S. I’m using a P.S. in a new post instead of editing the previous one, as I so often lose my posts if I edit.
Spreadsheet updated. Wow, UtahBill, you definitely earned your win this week! Go you!
Apologies for the late posting this week, folks. I went into the ER on Friday night, got treated, went back on Saturday night, was transferred to hospital at 3AM on Sunday, had surgery on Monday, and got home last night. Turns out cat bites can be really nasty, especially when they’re on a joint! My left hand looks like a boxing glove! 😉 However, my quick action is getting to the ER probably saved me from an amputation (they say) which would have really slowed down my listing process!
Sharyn, I have discovered apparel felt is awesome for backdrops. NOT craft felt, that’s a different category! Apparel felt can be washed and dried in a machine on normal settings, doesn’t require ironing, and doesn’t fray. It comes in a range of colors and is often around $5 – $6 per yard at Hobby Lobby, for about a 72 inch width. If you go in on their 50% off week (which rotates, phone your local HL to check and go in on the week when fabric is on sale) then it’s an even better deal. Grab 2 yards. Go to your local Home Depot and get a sheet of insulation foam board, 4 ft by 8 ft, which will cost about $5-$10. Drape the felt over the board, and lean the board against your wall. Done! If you can create a bit of a stand to raise the board a few inches above the floor it helps to reach the back of the board without kicking it. A couple of handweights at the bottom corners to stop it sliding are also a good idea. If you find a couple of fire irons somewhere, they would make a terrific stand, but you could make something up with a chunk of wood if you or your other half are handy that way. Total cost will be less than $20, excluding whatever you use as a base. Stick a hook/pin/nail in at the top for hanging and you’re all sorted.
I know this works because I experimented with this set up before Himself built my new set up. Excuse the chaos in the photos, this is a working shot, not a posed one. I used a room divider folded in half from my dance wardrobe. It was too narrow, but I made it work for the experiment. My new set up uses the insulation board and I will be sharing photos of that soon.
VT, I didn’t know there was such an animal as a Doll Hospital until I came to the States and I couldn’t believe it. I mean, just make her a new dress already! Then I found out how much those collector dolls sell for and I understood! Wowza, there’s a lot of money in those dolls! And if you’ve had them for decades because you’ve been waiting to get them repaired, you should score big ticket sales! Good for you!
UtahBill, you forget, we still have VT in the running. She didn’t win the Listing Challenge, but the Project challenge, so you have some stiff competition! Plus me, I’m working on upping my listing numbers!
MyCottage, this guy has revolutionized my listing process for clothes. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a listing process in action that really works. Unfortunately, I’ve not managed to achieve 90 seconds for any listing item, but I am getting faster!
My #7 is the top shelf of my Intake Shelves. Fortunately, with February being a short month, this is a small shelf. These intake shelves are supposed to be the repository for new stock, until I sort them for listing. Unfortunately, they have just become a dumping ground and the dumping has become extreme! Clearing the shelves has been on the To Do List for ages, but I never get around to it. Actually clearing the shelves so that I can use them is likely to make Himself pass out in disbelief, so I’m thrilled this came up. LOL Plus, I can actually get to use them!
Spreadsheet updated and UtahBill, you’ve racked up your second win for the year! Doing great, well done!
It’s been good to read about all your progress with your Designated Challenge. We’re now into February, and our new month’s challenge number is…
