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Utahbill, it’s an Excel spreadsheet. You just input your expenses under the expenses tab. It auto adds them to the other fields in your profit and loss sections.
Gosh, Lacy, I hadn’t even thought of that! Thanks for the reminder. I’ll get to work on the New Year this week. Everyone else, please also give me your goals for 2022!
Spreadsheet updated, Sharyn gets another win! Well done!
Last week of the year, last week of the TELC, last week of the Monthly Challenges too. I’m going to be a little late with the prizes this year, my printer is busy with other projects and needs to squeeze me in. Also… I haven’t decided what the prizes are going to be! If it wasn’t for the last minute, would I get anything done? LOL
@Utahbill Sorry! Here’s the link https://easyauctionstracker.com/
@Utahbill You will need to come up with stuff that is not date sensitive. Try to find stuff that you’ve been meaning to get to, but that you just keep putting off.
Re the new spreadsheet, have you looked at Easy Auction Tracker? It’s absolutely brilliant. It IS a spreadsheet, but it pulls all your eBay stuff for you. You manually add your expenses, such as mileage, electricity, etc., but it auto pulls all your eBay stuff. They also allow a free trial period, but at only $60 for the entire year, you can’t go wrong. I’ve used it for about 4 years now and buy it every year happily, because it’s the best. I only sell on eBay, so it’s not a problem for me, but if you sell on multiple platforms, it may be a problem. That is the only negative about this program. I’ve heard that they’re going to be adding, but I’ve not investigated because I only sell on eBay.
Happy Monday, y’all! I hope you all had wonderful days on Christmas Day and spent time loving up on some family. I managed to visit with most of my family via phone and/or video calls, although I only got to talk to my Dad the day after Christmas. For some reason, my rural phone system isn’t allowing me to call overseas. Bah humbug! It was good to see the family, though. They were all snuggled up in cozy winter jammies (it was night time over there!) talking about the cold, while we were in short sleeve t-shirts and complaining about the heat! LOL. Gotta love Texas!
And, I’m thrilled to report, I have listings to post for today, despite it being the Christmas week! This Challenge I’m on with my Bestie has totally gotten me moving. I got only 8 listings up, unfortunately, but I guarantee I wouldn’t have done them if I hadn’t been in a challenge!
This is the last week of the year, go for the final push, and I have already got a couple items out that are travel related so that I get to put my number on the Challenge board one more time!
Who has the Vision, gets the Mission! No hiding in the shadows for me, I need to show you what I’ve done so that you “get the picture” (pun intentional! LOL)
For anyone wondering, yes, this is my genuine list. About 90% of what’s on this list is stuff that I’ve been dreading for over a year! I’m praying that my Choice numbers are pulled later in the year, because I am going to need a break after the clusterfarkle of my challenges!
2022 thread is open for you to post your Designated Challenge posts IF YOU WANT TO! Please don’t post your numbers there (yet.) We still need to finish 2021 here in this thread.
Monthly Challenge, from 2022
Identify 10 areas/things/tasks you want to work on for a month. Create a short description of each. Give each description a number. The order is irrelevant. Add two lines marked Challenger’s Choice. You choose which number gets assigned to Choice lines.
You can choose to share your list of items, or not to share. We understand that some items are private.
Each month a random number will be drawn. Work on that task for that month.
Challenger’s Choice lines are open: work on an incomplete previous challenge, or a new area, or take a break from challenges. Only rule is you may not work on an upcoming challenge.For those of you who are old fashioned (ahem.. me!) I have created a worksheet that you can print, fill out, and share a snapshot, if you wish. Find it here.
@Sharyn Ahhh! Sorry! That’s where you write in the month when the number is drawn. So if number 6 is drawn in January, you will write Jan in the month column by your #6 project
@Sharyn No, they’re not specific to a month. You choose 10 projects that need to be done, but they can’t be time-specific. On the first of each month, I’ll randomly draw a number 1-12. That number will correspond with which number project you work on throughout the month. Have a look at the sheet I attached in the last post, it might explain it better? Sometimes seeing it helps.
@Sharyn, my body parts are holding together… mostly! LOL
Spreadsheet updated and Julie takes the win! There you go, Jules, hope that makes up for a listless weekend!
I was chatting with a friend about the new Trash Elf Designated Challenge (TEDC) and she said it’s great, but… (Isn’t “but” the most dangerous word in any language?) But it has a major flaw. I thought about it, and she’s right. Dang it! I’m going to make an amendment to the challenge.
My neighbor’s son sells gun parts, for those old ball and powder guns. He wouldn’t mind putting up something like “Tidy Area 51” but he definitely won’t want to put in the detail about how he weighs the gunpowder and stuff. (Not sure if that wouldn’t spark a terrorist notice or something!) Now I would happily say “Negotiate new prices with Agape Thrift Store” but some folks sell new items and either wouldn’t want to identify their source, or have to sign an NDA and so couldn’t mention details. Or if you sell potentially embarrassing stuff, you wouldn’t want to describe, for example, “sort dildos and butt plugs into separate boxes.” O.O! 😛
While I do try to think through the implications of my challenges, this one missed me, and for that I apologize. I will be amending the challenge as follows:
Create your list of 10 items. Add in your two Challenger’s Choice numbers. Then you can either:
1. Post your full list of 12 items in the group to share (next year, in the new thread)
or
2. Post your list of 12 items, but in the months where you can’t/don’t want to share information put in REDACTED.
or
3. Just say that your list is ready. No sharing required.
There are no wrong answers, folks. We’ve always operated on an honesty basis, and there’s no reason to change that now!
For those of you who are old fashioned (ahem.. me!) I have created a worksheet that you can print, fill out, and share a snapshot, if you wish. Find it here.
Good morning, All! Glad you like the new challenge. I was worried some of you would be mad that I canned the old one! 😀
This week I managed a satisfying 15 listings. Yay!
The last two weeks I’ve been struggling with my knee. I thought I had mentioned it back when, but it must have been one of the posts that the SL bots deleted when I couldn’t get onto the forum. (Back story, short version: knee smashed in motorbike accident, rebuilt, ongoing problems. No knee replacement yet.) The knee gave out a couple weeks back and I’ve been on crutches. The latest news is that I have found a brace that supposedly helps my particular knee problem and, skeptic though I am, the pain leads one to spend money in desperation. And it is working! Color me delighted! And surprised, because this is brace #4 or 5 or ridiculous-number-of-useless-items. It’s not the most comfortable thing to wear, but I was astonished to discover I had no knee pain yesterday while carrying out cat litter to my usual dump spot. Wheeee! Crutches have gone back into storage and fingers crossed I can get a whole passel of work done before I need them again.
Howdy y’all!
Well, I’ve been giving it some good ol’ rumination and I have decided from next year to scrap the Monthly Challenges. I’ve been seeing consistent drops in participation. You know how, when you live near the beach, you never go to the beach? When I first started adding in challenges, it was to give you a boost, something new to motivate you. Now, it’s a monthly thing and you’ve gotten used to it, so the motivation is gone.
For 2022, I’m going to give you a new Challenge. The Designated Challenge! This is how it is going to work.
Over the next two weeks, go through your business and decide what you want to work on. Identify 10 items. Do you want to revamp your store banner in eBay? Do you finally want to sign up with List Perfectly and move to other platforms? Do you want to unpack that gosh-darned shelf that keeps falling down and buy a new one? Do you want to get rid of those piled up boxes of death pile items?
Did you notice there’s a mix of options in there? There’s digital and physical, there’s working ON your business and working IN your business? Now you can choose any one category, or mix and match to your heart’s content.
Next up, you are going to write down a clear descriptive of each goal, and you’re going to number each one. Try to keep it to a single sentence, and make it something you can do within a month. So, using the examples I gave above:
1. Revamp eBay store banner
2. Sign up with List Perfectly and move to Mercari, Poshmark, and Etsy
3. Unpack 3rd shelf that keeps falling down, buy new wood and build a good frame.
4. Empty Death Box #284The numbering system you use is irrelevant. You need 12 numbers in total, and any two of the numbers will say “Challenger’s Choice.” So you can choose to make #5 and #7 your CC, and I can make mine #3 and #11.
When I create the 2022 Challenge Thread #1, you must post your list of 12 items (2 of which are Choice lines) for the group to see. Each month I will post a random number (from 1 to 12) and you will then spend that month working on whatever that number was from your challenge. At the end of the month, you will report back on your success/progress/failure (hope not!) and we will cheer each other on!
The Challenger’s Choice items are there so that you have a break, because we all know that life happens. So if your number drawn one month is a Choice month you can choose what you want to do. Do you choose to work on a different area than one of those you put in your challenge? Or to catch up on a previous month’s challenge? Or to merely take the month off from challenges? It’s your choice, and there are no wrong answers! Well – there’s one wrong answer. You can’t choose to do an upcoming challenge already identified.
You have two weeks to identify your 10 items or areas, and post in the first week of January! Ready… GO!
sonova…..
My crappy buyer won his payment dispute! The item was delivered, he refused to return it with my no-quibble return policy, and he WON! This would never have happened under the old PayPal system! I’m disputing this with eBay Seller Protection now. Will keep you updated.
Good morning, all, and apologies for the late posting. SL bots still don’t like me!
Wow, Julie, you hit it out the park this week! Great win. And we’re still in a neck-n-neck race! Such fun!
Thanks for the tip, Sharyn! I’ve got frames to move!
