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JB, I had a cat who kept developing UTIs and, in the end, the vet castrated him! I was horrified, but the vet explained that he would now kinda go-like-a-girl and, without the narrowing of the urethra along the length of the penis, any urinary crystals or similar would be expelled easier. He also told me not to feed the cat fish, as fish is known to cause crystals. Dunno if that was the correct deduction, but my cat didn’t have another UTI again ever.
Cats and UTIs are a major problem, and you feel so bad for the cat while it’s in pain! I hope your precious furble feels better soon.
Wow, UtahBill, you came back with a vengeance! You won the week! Go you! 😀
Great week, everyone. You all seem to be loving this month’s challenge. I have gotten as far as digging stuff out of the closet, but I’ve done no listing yet. Still resolving off eBay situations. Ruby the Rescue decided to throw up blood the weekend before the Wednesday she was due to leave, so she had to stay for more tests. Of course, she hasn’t thrown up blood since. Well played, Rubes, well played!
For those who enjoy the furbles, here they are on this morning’s dawn walks! That’s Ruby the Rescue (as my Bestie nicknamed her) on the left and Toffee on the right.
JB, added your Week 20 items. We’ve just completed week 22, and I added your 11 listing there. Sounds like a great vacation. Are you prepped for the hurricanes that accompany beach life? That’s one of the reasons we decided NOT to live in Corpus Christi. The other was the humidity.
VL, your wedding sounds amazing! Sorry about your dad though. That’s so terrible.
JB, I bought her audiobook with the 5 second rule. Interesting listen. However, what I really found interesting this past week was this 100-year old hack that seems like it could work for me. I operate better on the KISS principle. Any time it’s complicated, I get distracted. Nothing like my butterfly brain! For those who want the quick ‘n dirty, here it is:
- At the end of each workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.
- Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.
- When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.
- Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.
- Repeat this process every working day.
You don’t have to read the article, although it is interesting. And you don’t have to do six tasks. You could do 4. Or 7. But the article says don’t choose too many. Keep the task list short. You can always fill your day with other To Dos if you finish all 4. For me, the one quote that really slapped me upside the head was this:
Basically, if you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything.
Spreadsheet updated. VL takes the win! Thrilled to see the Pop Up Challenge is working! JR, you could get into the de-hoardifying (love it!) and win this one! An entire basement? I don’t know we could compete! LOL
To be honest, as an eBay seller, what incentive would I have to ship YOUR stuff instead of my own? What you’re saying is you want the best work (the sourcing) and someone else gets the grunge work. And the more shipping I do for you, the less listing I do for me, because it’s a time sink. I don’t think you want an eBay seller to do this for you. Plus, I’m guessing you would need whomever it is to store the stuff for you as well, if you’re traveling. That’s a big ask for another seller!
I’d suggest you have an employee, someone you actually hire. You set up a storage unit, with shelves and an inventory system, something with barcodes, perhaps? That way you can barcode what you buy and send to your employee, they scan it into inventory when they receive it, and scan it when it ships. There are online inventory systems that you can get which would use this option. That way, you have an online track of what’s going on with your stuff. Then you rent a drop box, somewhere that will take big stuff for you and track it. UPS has these boxes, you post items to them and they put it into the box, like a mailbox, but more secure. You ensure your employee is set up with a printer and internet.
THEN you can pay them a weekly wage or a monthly salary. Make it their job to update item specifics, check on the business, share on social media, etc. etc. They will need to pick up your inventory from your drop box, scan it into the system and put it into storage. Then, when it sells, they will collect the ordered items from storage, take it back home/office, pack it, print labels, and send it out, within your shipping deadline.
This is the only way I can see it working for both of you, but wow! You’re operating on a lot of trust! At least with the barcode system, you will have a good handle of what’s missing if they ever do a bunk with your inventory!
P.S. Libby! We miss you too! I figured the new podcasts and stuff were taking up most of your time, but we’d love to have you back.
Sharyn, sympathies on the colonoscopy! Hope it and the design review went well.
Toffee is, most assuredly, a mutt. My Bestie said she has Yoda ears (apt, and funny) and her heritage is very hard to determine. Trying to fill in the line that says “Breed” is an exercise in arguments. Nobody has managed to narrow her down much further than “dog.” Furthermore, she is what is known as “dirt colored.” Apparently, nobody likes dogs that look like dirt. Lastly, clocking in at 4 years old, she’s neither lively nor active. She doesn’t chase balls or play with toys. She doesn’t jump and run. She’s not likely to appeal to a large portion of the doggy adoption market. She’s an old, inactive, funny-eared dirt dog. But all of these things mean she is a perfect fit for us. As my grandmother told me: Every pot has its lid! 😉
JUNE CHALLENGE: PERSONAL ITEMS!
Look around your lovely abode. What junk do you have cluttering up the corners, counters, and any horizontal surfaces? (Remember… the floor is a horizontal surface too!)
Lift that fugly ceramic bowl Aunt Mavis gave you 32 years ago. Pick up that golf bag that you haven’t used in two decades because the membership fees are insane! Grab that black sweater that costs a fortune and you snapped it up on sale for a tenth of the price but it itches so damn much you never wear it. Do the fastest research on the planet! AND LIST THAT CLUTTER!
Yup, this month is all about listing stuff YOU own. Not Death Piles, not yard sale finds, not Auction wins and Bargain Basement buys. Nope. You’re going to bless yourself (and the rest of your long-suffering family) with some major cleaning out of YOUR home. It’s June, traditionally the month of great weather and outdoorsy extravaganzas. Good month to do some spring cleaning, yes?
If you want to donate a pile of stuff that isn’t worth listing, please go ahead! In fact, in the spirit of the clean up, I’m going to create a POP UP CHALLENGE! For every bag or box (or item, if it’s too big to fit in a bag or box) that you donate, you get one point!
Ready? Go!
No, I don’t care if you’re not ready. Go anyway!
Heyyyyyy Folks!
Wow, VL, what a win for the week! Awesomeness! Spreadsheet updated!
Thanks for the kind words on the dogs. I now have TWO rescues, having been asked to take in an emergency mutt on Thursday. This one is an elderly medical case who is going to Oregon on June 9th, but needed care until then. She has not been abused, but she has been neglected. It took us the entire weekend to get her to accept us and to run with freedom on the ranch, but we have finally made it. I will add photos at the end of this post. One with her (in the cabin, of course) and one with Toffee running happily in the wildflowers.
However, this put paid to my best efforts to list this week, so I only racked up 7 new listings. And this thanks once again to my Bestie, who quietly nudged me to get some up. Not only did I have to care for 2 rescues, but I also had our anniversary and Himself’s birthday, which resulted in a few visitors and a surprise stayover from the MIL. She left this morning and now I’m frantically catching up with the last 4 days ToDos.
End of May was the end of the May challenge and wow, did VL ever wipe the floor with the rest of us! 22 items gives her a resounding win! Sharyn and VT tied for 2nd with 4 each, and JB got 3rd with her 2. Nobody else participated. Well done, folks. Well done!
Here’s Ruby:
Ruby and Toffee
Update: two furbles in the cabin with me today. Only one (red) dog bed, so I “made” another using polystyrene and sheets, and both dogs wanted it! So now I had 2 beds, but both dogs on the new one, and the old boy looking SO offended! I couldn’t help laughing and snapped a photo for you to enjoy.
Hey folks! Thanks for your comments on the fur babies. Actually, they’re always in and out of the cabin. They come and go at whim. They came in with me when I first got there, which is why they were in the first video, but got bored and left by the time I took the 2nd video (which was, to be fair, a day or so later!) My furbles have carte blanche and, if you look at the 2nd video again, you’ll see the red dog bed on the floor in front of the quilt frame. I always have space for them.
VT, glad you cleared up your exhaustion, although I’m sorry it’s root canal! I send best wishes that it goes quickly and well, and that you’re back on your feet and feeling fabulous! And, as an extra special pick-me-up…
Spreadsheet updated. VT wins! Go VT go! 😀
Zero for me again this week. I’ve had quite the week! Our chicken coop was in need of some structural modifications, we needed to cut away the floor so that the poop fell out of the roost area onto the ground below, and I did that safely. However, despite using scissors, huge knives, razor blades, and a giant oscillating saw with no injury whatsoever, when I jumped down out of the roost, I fell off balance, face planting into one of the freshly cut wooden struts and bouncing off it like one of Forrest Gump’s ping pong balls! I’m very blessed to have a robust circulatory system and I very seldom bruise at all, so I don’t look like a member of the Walking Dead. And I’m on prescription anti-inflammatories, so the swelling was restrained as well! I don’t scare small children when I walk on the streets, and nobody glares at my husband when we’re out together! The downside of this magnificent physique, though, is that it’s very difficult to convince doctor’s that there is, in fact, something wrong! (When my neck was broken in 3 places, it took 4 years for them to take me seriously!) Fortunately my chiropractor is used to my brilliant healing and superhuman pain threshold, and took a look. I may have a hairline fracture, but seeing as they can’t put my head in a cast (now that WOULD scare small children!) I just have to take it easy until the pain settles down, and try not to sneeze or blow my nose. Huh. Ahhhhh chooooo!
We also got a new rescue. This is dog #6 in five months! However, once she gets her vet clearance on Thursday, she’ll be up for adoption and we’re going to put in for her. She has been the best fit for our family and she is considered “too ugly to place”, so none of the Rescue organizations want to take her. Well, we think she’s beautiful! She is older, about 4 years, and there are some odd qualities, but to us, she’s the best. Here she is, chillin’ like a boss!
Memo to me: don’t try to edit a post after you’ve posted it or the Forum eats it! The good news is… I saved a copy before I hit submit! I learned! However, it appears that I cannot repost the saved copy, as the Forum says I already said that. So I shall have to confuzzle the bots and do a bit of a switcheroo!
Spreadsheet updated! Sharyn and JR, your numbers have been adjusted accordingly. VT – do you want to change yours from 10 up to 15? You’re so far ahead of your annual goal, you’re halfway into next year! LOL Congratulations on your high listings, even being away. You juuuuust got beat, by one measly listing! JB took the win this week! Congrats, JB, but you and VL need to pay attention to your rear view mirrors! It looks like VT is on a rrrrrrroll! 😀
Another goose egg from me. I got a bad case of the Druthers. I have 4 businesses to take care of and I felt like I was constantly on a back foot, continually trying to catch up. I got completely fed up and decided I was going to catch up, once and for all! The week before last was dedicated to cleaning up the cabin and, boy, what a job that was! Now, I can’t believe I’m sharing this mess on the interwebz, but I love you guys, so here was the before and here is the after! Since the 2nd video was taken, I’ve cleared up even more. I couldn’t really work in the chaos there, now it’s exciting to get there and keep on with the work. It’s a long and complicated story about why it got like that, but the short version is that Dearly-Beloved-and-Not-Murdered-Yet Husband wanted “all this sh*t out of the house!” Well for him, crisis for me. I’m still clearing up a few things, but I expect to be back to listing this week.
Last week was the other business. I’m migrating all the businesses except eBay to this new invoicing software I’ve been using for DBNMH’s business. It’s a huge task to migrate, because the software isn’t configured for this kind of business, so I’m drawing on my accounting training to force it to comply during set up. My poor CPA keeps getting emails along the lines of “if I configure Improvements into an Asset account and then debit Bank, is that correct? Or do I have to Expense it?” Poor lady! She has been so incredibly patient with me! Of course, it will help her out next year come tax time when she gets a nice, printed report instead of the Excel hash-sheet she currently has to decipher! LOL
For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I feel like I have a handle on what’s going on and I see a light in the tunnel that may not be an oncoming train! I’m thrilled to take a deep breath and have some time for me! Of course, me time has been filled with a new belly dance choreography and, oh, 9? I think. Maybe 8? sewing projects that I’m finishing up. Plus, I’ve revamped and rearranged some of the house. It’s looking wonderful!
Next week I need to stop slacking off and get some work done! 😉
From eBay:
“We’re in the process of renaming the size aspect. As part of that we change the mandated aspect to recommended, then we rename, then we restore to mandated, then we copy over values. They’ll migrate over in the next day. The data is not lost.”What does that mean for us? Hang tight, give it a few days to let eBay process the over one billion listings and then check back. All the data should be restored.
Oops! Sorry! I forgot. Gulp!
Spreadsheet updated, VL wins the week! Go you!
UtahBill hasn’t posted for several weeks so he has been retired. UtahBill, if you come back, I can reinstate you easily.
Looking at the numbers, I have been posting an average of 9 a week, with an original goal of 15. I’ve already adjusted my goal to 12, but I may change it down to 10. The ideal of the goal is to have a challenge, but it gets demotivating to see how far behind the numbers are falling – at least, to me. With 18 weeks of the year down already and an average of 9 listings per week, even 10 will be a challenge for me. I can always adjust up again later in the year if I start getting productive! In that light: JR, you have been posting an average of 5 a week, with a goal of 15; and Sharyn, you have been posting an average of 12 a week, with a goal of 20;Â do either of you want to make an adjustment? Just let me know.
