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Looking just at the existing numbers:
You need $2,850 per month.
On quitting your job you will have $2,400 ($450 short.)
Your savings are $1,100 ($1,750 short.)
Your current income for August was $1,205 ($1,645 short)
Your only buffer is your parents.
Historical selling figures indicate an uptick in sales, but we haven’t had an historical COVID crisis. For this reason, I would go with existing figures rather than projections. Looking at the numbers only, I agree with Sonia and Zach.
Spreadsheet updated, Libby gallops to a convincing win.
Last week of the August textiles challenge, everyone.
Who wants to put up the September challenge?
Listing time! Ready? Go!
Zero for me last week. Very busy week off eBay.
I’ve had it happen to me. Hit CTRL-F5 and try again. If it doesn’t work, follow Jay’s advice.
Spreadsheet updated and VL scores the win this week! Good going!
Wishing everyone a great week!
VL, you only have 33 items to list to catch up to your annual goal. Me? I’ve got to find 126 extra items to list in only a few months. I’d better get off my butt and get busy. *rushes off to the cabin*
Oh, wait, I have to do my numbers first! 😀
Having admitted I’m behind, I’m behind again! Only 8 listed this week, so I didn’t make my weekly goal. However, one was a shirt, so that’s two towards the August challenge so far. Hey, do bra straps count as textiles? I listed a Victoria’s Secret set of bra straps.
Yesterday I heard yowling under my bedroom window and found a feral kitten with a shattered foreleg. Poor baby. I rescued her and put her in a crate with a pile of straw and contacted our local rescue organization. They can’t take any cats at the moment as they’re both full and in the middle of a massive ringworm infection, but they did find me another rescue that will pick up 100% of the medical bills to pay for her to be repaired. I think she’s going to lose that leg. She is such a cutie though, I’m so grateful that she has a chance. Anyone want a tripod kitten?
Average price on Worthpoint is $75, with this one with all the extras
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/hewlett-packard-hp-33c-calculator-20376473
selling for $120 in 2012
VL, kinda. You actually got stuff together to list, and then took the time to post about it. After last week’s discussion about points for participating, I thought that a participation point was following the intent, rather than the letter of the law. You wouldn’t get any points in the Weekly Challenge, or even the monthly challenge, but for a spot challenge… yeah. I think we’re all chuffed you tried.
Mine were both color-related. Blue jeans and some Corning Ware with a blue pattern.
Tuesday Blues Day Points:
Sharyn wins with 7 items – 4 points
VT is second with 4 items – 3 points
I slide in third with 2 items – 2 points
VL gets one point for participating, even if she didn’t list.
And thanks, VL. I’m thrilled to read that I’ve helped you grow and list more. That’s what this thread is all about. You guys keep me busy, but in the best possible way EVER! I truly appreciate what a fantastic group this has turned out to be.
You’d think I’d pick a challenge that is easy for me to do. I mean, I’m setting the challenge, I get to choose something that I can actually achieve, right? You’d think….
Instead, I ended up rummaging in my Death Piles desperately trying to find something blue. Duh! Of course, the stuff in my DPs is all the stuff that needs cleaning or fixing or research or… yeah, you get the picture. So while I took photos of six blue items, I only ended up listing two of them.
On the plus side, one was blue jeans, so I got into the August Challenge as well. A two-fer! Yay!
Spreadsheet updated, Libby squeaks in for the win, edging Junque Redux out by only 3 points.
Updated Jan, Feb, and March for the Challenge to the new points system. Will continue to work on it through the week. It means combing through each thread looking for who participated during the month, as well as picking out the announced winners at the end of the month, which is why it’s slow.
Okay, I hear you. Participation points included.
In answer to VL’s suggestion that I add first, second and third points to the weekly listings, I’m going to say no, not because I’m too lazy to do it (I did do it!), but because it will defeat the intention. The idea is to motivate everyone to participate more in the weekly listings. After going to all the work of actually adding in the three scores, I discovered that the same three people tend to win every week. Libby scores EVERY week in one of the three spots, and VT and VL pretty much hog the rest. It would be the opposite of motivating for you three Roadrunners to leave us Wil.E. Coyote’s in your, admittedly impressive, dust!
I’ve reversed all the work I did, changing back to just one winner in the weekly listing numbers. However, by changing the monthly challenges to include first, second, third, and participation points, we might then level the playing field, just a little. I think those challenges are more motivating, because they’re more across the board, although still weighted in favor of the original TELC team, the folks who have been with me since the beginning of this Challenge. If you look at the Monthly and Spot Challenges section, you can see the numbers are all over the place, making it much more likely that more will participate.
It’s going to take a while to get all those challenges updated to include all the points. I will have to go back to January and find everyone’s final posts and then update each month. I will allocate 4 points for first, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd, and one point for participation. Then I will add a total column for us to see a winner. And I will add a second prize, one for the weekly challenges and one for the monthly and spot challenges. In other words, we will have a Trash Elf Listing winner and a Trash Elf Challenge winner.
P.S. The prizes have been upgraded! You really want to win one this year!
Hope this works for everyone.
10 for me. Incredibly busy off eBay, but at least I made my weekly goal.
My knowledge of air fryers is zero, but this deal popped up in my feed and I remembered this thread and thought I would share. Best Buy is selling the Emerald 4L Analog Air Fryer for $24.99 (was $59.99.) Shipping is $11.49 or free if your cart hits $35. This has a rating of 4.6 stars with 101 reviews. They also have the Chefman 6L Digital Multi-function Air Fryer Dehydrator Rotisserie Combo on sale for $99.99 (was $149.99) and shipping is free. Rating is also 4.6 stars with 962 reviews. There’s an open box option for only $74.99
The deal is good for today (Sunday August 9, 2020) but I don’t know when it expires.
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