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Zero listings and I didn’t make the DP challenge either. It was an insane week. I will have to make up with double this week!
Treasures won the week ending 8/26, congrats and well done on all your hard work!
According to my schedule, we have to get rid of/list/donate 18 items this week. I will try to do 37 so that I catch up with last week as well. That sounds like a lot, but I am pretty sure I can donate or trash that amount without too much difficulty. When I first started eBaying, I got a lot of genuine honest-to-goodness junk. Paring down will be a joy!
Wishing you all a great first week to the last third of the year!
How wonderful for you, Lacy! After the time you’ve had, I’m glad you had a great show.
Ah.. but did you and Christine SELL the 20 items from DP at your Shows? If you took them there, then brought them back home, they didn’t count! 😉
Of course they sold. You always sell so much stuff, Lacy, it’s quite impressive how much you pack into your markets. I’m thrilled you guys are finding alternate ways to reduce your DPs. I’ve had to fall back on merely donating mine due to simply not having the time to do any more, nor the space to continue to hold onto them. We have a local Street Market coming up in October, perhaps I should get myself a pile of DPs to offload there and follow the herd* to the markets! 😁
*(Herd? Piggies? They all sound so unflattering, don’t they?)
Last week’s winner was Sharyn. Congrats on great numbers!
Julie is still whipping our collective booties with her terrific listing numbers. If she wasn’t our Honorable Mention for the year, she’d be so far ahead of us we would have no hope of catching up! LOL. Congrats on your hard work, Jules!
I whupped everyone with a big goose egg for listing 😀 but I did make the challenge by donation only. That shelf looks really neat and workable now that it’s almost cleared of junk! LOL.
Wishing you all a fantastic week.
Nope! I managed one day of organizing and creating a pile of items to donate. I’m going to be filling my quota for the week with donations rather than listings, just because of sheer lack of time this week. But I’ve been finding it awfully difficult to make the time available. And listing after such a long break is a killer! I think we can commiserate, Christine!
TWENTY WEEKS DEATH PILE CHALLENGE STARTS TODAY!
This week you need to clear twenty items from your death piles. You can donate, trash, or list, as long as you get them out of the house*. OUT of the house, not in a box to be found six months from now. 😁
Ready? GO!
*Okay, if they’re listed, they get to stay in the house until they’re sold. 😉
THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED.
Please go to https://www.scavengerlife.com/forums/topic/listing-challenge-2024-thread-2/ for the new thread.
Winner last week was VT. Congrats!
Empty nester now, Christine? That’s going to take some getting used to. Congrats on making it to the next phase in your life.
Lucky kids, Sharyn. Remember the old days when every girl had a Hope Chest?
Do remember that pushing yourself too hard too soon will only set you back, Lacy. Give yourself a chance to recover!
Good morning, all! Happy Monday!
So sorry to read about all the health issues of our little tribe, and pets! I join Julie in wishing everyone good health going forward.
Next week is the start of our new DP Challenge, and I think it would be good that the Challenge kicks off our new thread. So post all your numbers here for this week, and I’ll begin a new thread next Monday.
Our winners for the last two week are Sharyn and VT. Congrats for all your hard work ladies.
No numbers from Christine for 3 weeks now, but she did mention she was on vacay, so yay for a good break.
Also, Julie, no numbers for week ending July 22.
This gives Sharyn 3 wins in a row! Congrats on great listing numbers!
Our new DP challenge starts in 3 weeks, so if you want to use this time to get ready, get planning, or just gird your loins (as my Bestie told me recently LOL) here’s your reminder.
This week’s numbers to be posted here, for week ending July 29. At the end of the week I will create a new thread.
NEW DEATH PILE CHALLENGE! Advance notice.
Hey y’all. About time I injected a little oomph into our DP reduction.
This challenge is for the last 20 weeks of the year, starting August 19. We’re going to count DOWN to the end of the year. 20, 19, 18, 17… and we’re going to match the numbers with DP items. So the first week is 20 weeks until the end of the year and we’re going to clear 20 DP items. The next week is 19 weeks and 19 items. The third week 18… and so on.
Now, before you have a heart attack, “clear” doesn’t mean “list.” It means you’re going to get those DPs out of the DP stack. You’re going to list them, or donate them, or trash them. Whatever you need to do to get them gone. As many as you can list would be great, because that’s money that could be earned, but any way of reducing your DPs, even if it’s just landfill, is what you’re aiming for here.
Using this method, we start the Challenge with a huge push, then less pressure as the weeks count down to Christmas, when you’re going to be wanting to put more effort into year end sales and (hopefully) packing more orders. It also means that you’re going to wipe out over 200 items from your Piles!
This is a full 4 weeks’ notice so that you can find the DPs you want to clear, or set aside items to throw away when you’re overwhelmed and won’t make the cut 😉 or just to get into the right mindset to wipe out some of that backlog.
Let’s end the year with a massive clean sweep!
@Sharyn Sorry – I read your message about a new thread and then forgot as I completed the spreadsheet. I’ve put a note on the spreadsheet to remind me to create a new thread at the end of this month.
@ChristineR Sorry you got locked out of the forum, but yay, I’m not alone! I thought I was the only one who got locked out. LOL. I discovered it’s my VPN. SL doesn’t like it, or the host platform doesn’t, so I tunneled my VPN to exclude SL. Also, you mentioned you had a good listing week, but you didn’t give a number, so I have nothing for you for w/e 07/08.Sharyn took the win for last week, congrats on great numbers.
Hey everyone! Wow, you’re all doing excellently. Very well done!
Winner for week ending 06/24 Christine; for week ending 07/01 Treasures. Well done, ladies!
Julie, you’re doing so well with your listings. Congratulations.
Wishing you all a great week.
What a pain… and what an opportunity! Best of luck for a set up that doesn’t make you cringe and some great sales!
Hey y’all! Last week of the first half of the year!
Winner for week ending 6/17 was a tie to Sharyn and Lacy. Congrats, you two!
3 listings for me. Two weeks back I decided to create a listing habit by listing one item per weekday. I made it that first week with 5 listings up, but last week had 2 rambunctious days that knocked me out of play. I’m back at it this week. I’ve also started doing a daily End & Sell Similar of 10 listings, which I’m using as an opportunity to do an inventory check. I actually pull one box and empty it out, then repack it as I go. I’ve dumped a few items that just aren’t worth selling, and found errors in my listings that I’ve been able to correct. At 10 items per weekday, it will take me the rest of the year to work through my entire inventory, but I am happy to do it slowly. I’m able to update item specifics, correct any mistakes I find, and check shipping weights and dimensions. I found one listing that I obviously did Sell Similar on another one of my listings, and I forgot to change the photos! No wonder it didn’t sell. LOL. I’ve found items listed that I don’t have in stock, and items in stock that I don’t have listed. I found a spelling mistake in the title of one listing and a large weight error (10lbs instead of 10 oz) in another. Plus I’m cleaning out my shelves and giving my eBay store a bit of a shake up as I go.
Wishing you all a terrific week!
