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Hey folks! Back from my shop hopping and we managed to do 50 shops out of a total of 104 state-wide. It was a blast and we covered so many miles (nearly 2,000) and in some horrible weather on one day in Dallas. I swear, if I’d seen anything remotely ark-shaped, I’d have been banging on its doors. We had flash flood warnings and Google re-routed us a couple times to avoid flooded roads. I white-knuckled down the freeways at a doddering 53 mph being passed by cars skiing at 130 or so! Visibility was about 3 car lengths and the worst was driving in the dark. Ugh! Not an experience I’d like to repeat!
However, most of the time was the best fun and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
Obviously, no listing last week. I did the spreadsheet for last week and despite Julie’s Honorary high, Lacy took the win.
Lacy, I’ve listed curtains and I find they always sell a lot faster if you actually hang them to take a couple shots. Or if they’re NIB, I zoom right in to the photo on the front of the packet, where they’re hanging, and I post that as the main shot. Hope that helps!
Congrats on finishing the carport, Lacy! Nice finds, do tell about the rare book when you have some info. That’s interesting!
Spreadsheet updated, another win for Christine. Well done! Julie is our Honorary Mention with her astounding number, but she won last year.
I’m leaving tomorrow on my All Texas Shop Hop road trip. We’re getting a rental car at 8AM and returning it on Saturday noon. We’re hoping to knock out half of the shops in the Hop in this week. Wish us luck!
Congratulations, Julie. It IS your highest ever. Your previous record was 75 in the week ending April 12, 2021! It must feel fantastic to have almost cleared that clothing rack.
Ruby Lane, Sharyn? Yet another platform. I think that’s why eBay is struggling so much, there are now so many eBay-alternatives.
Does anyone else cross post to Bonanza? I’ve been with them for years. They’re not busy like eBay but they bring in a sale every now and then, and they’re Google-searchable.
No listings for me this week. We went away on Friday to a concert and I’m doing major clearing and decluttering in the house again. I’ll be away the whole of next week on a shop hop, and then Mr. Handyman will be making me a new custom cutting table for my sewing room. I’m getting the room cleared and sorted in readiness. Plus, puppies are incredibly hard work! HE wanted the puppy, and I get to do all the work! Wait until I’m gone for a week and he’s cleaning poop piles and pee puddles. Yeah!
It was reported to eBay, yes.
Jay/Ryanne – would you be able to edit the link? It’s not giving me that option
Posted on the main page, but also here for my peeps:
If you receive a message like this, do not click the link!
Hi there,
I’m encountering difficulties in completing my purchase. Each time I attempt to finalize the payment, I receive a notification stating that the seller is unable to process it. eBay support has informed me that certain sellers might have limitations on payments from new users. To address this, they recommended sharing the following link with you:
https://manage-settings-ebay.com/?/kristmccurd-0
This link directs to a new feature designed to potentially alleviate the issue. It’s entirely at your discretion whether you choose to activate it. Would you mind checking if it’s enabled on your end? Your assistance is greatly appreciated!
Hope that your drama is dimmed a bit by the news that you won the week, Lacy! Congrats!
Great news on your sales, Julie. What a fantastic find with your Vince.
It’s wonderful that the box challenge is still running. I’m glad that you’re all doing so well with it!
I managed to list 6 items this week and cleared out a bunch of junk stuff that wasn’t worth selling. 16 items that were pretty, but worthless. I’ve cleared one whole side of the garage over the course of this year, and it feels amazing! Now I just need to get my listings up and feel good about that too.
Wishing you all a fantastic week.
Congrats on another win, Christine!
Spreadsheet updated.
Good luck for your show, Lacy! One day I’ll be in the area and attend.
Woot! I FINALLY got to put some listings on the board, thanks in huge part to my eBay Bestie who has been gently nudging me back to work. 4 listings up for me and all of them from my Workbench mystery “box” that I said I wanted to clear in February. I’m going to finish clearing my entire workbench this month. I’ve got about 5 piles that I’m counting as a “box” each, and I started with the easiest one. Urk! The fact that it was the one directly blocking my printer is a huge factor, but although I know the Eat the Frog First principle is sound, I have to clear the easier stuff to give me somewhere to unpack the really awful box that is at the end of my particular rainbow. These are items that ended up getting piled on the corner of my workbench because I quite literally didn’t know what to do with them. I think that this time I will make a decision. Either I figure out how to list them or I get rid of them. They’ve been my bane for far too long! It will be a wonder to have the entire workbench cleared of clutter! I plan to set up the corner as a photo booth, which will allow me to quickly photograph the next “box” in line! Woot woot!
I’m loving how we’re all getting down with our Death Piles! This is so cool. Thanks for getting us on this course, Treasures!
Good news, Lacy, because that company is often very highly priced and I shudder to think how much it would cost to get it for you! 🤣
@VT There are some months you won’t get to finish a challenge box. Set it aside to see if you can add it to a later box? How do you handle “leftovers”? You’re the Mystery Box Queen, so the rest of us would like some guidance! LOL
@ChristineR – Me too! List those LL Bean wool blankets! Heheheheh. Well done on a great listing number!
@Sharyn – I’m pretty much done with women’s clothing. It’s long tail, it sells for low prices, and it has high returns. I’ve donated a LOT of women’s items, over 300, and I will see whether or not I want to stay in the mens’ category.@Lacy – well done! I remember you mentioning how that carport was a problem for you a few months ago. I’m glad you got it all sorted. And I feel your pain on the musty smelling magazines. I wish I knew a solution for that. It’s horrible.
@Julie – yikes! Hope you feel better soon. Great listing number!Spreadsheet updated, congrats to Christine for a terrific win this week.
Reseller Porn!
Figured this would give some of you weak knees. Lacy, I know exactly which photo you’re going to squee on! LOL
Thanks for the kind words about the puppy. He is very cute and growing like a weed!
Wow, Julie, only $6? I don’t think we have anyone who can do stuff that cheaply locally. That being said, there’s a new alteration place just opened up locally. I wonder if I should check her out. While I sew, I hate alterations and upcycling. I know, bad me! But I think upcycling is more work than sewing from new! Perhaps she would be worth cultivating as a resource.
So you have a family history of reselling, Lacy? How cool is that! I have found that vintage magazines sell quite well and they’re super easy. Do you have a flatbed scanner? Scan the magazine, front and back and maybe one page in the middle. Upload and list. I got a whole pile of Victoria magazines a while back, never heard of them before. I sorted by year, then date, and scanned, listed using Sell Similar and changed the title. It was fast work and they’ve been selling steadily. Pretty much one afternoon of “I don’t feel like work” and I have a dozen listings!
You’re a treasure, VT! Thanks for trying to make it easier. I think I have a handle on it now, so dating is not a requirement. You’re welcome to add a date, if you wish. And you’re great to do all the motivating for the mystery box challenge. I’m very grateful that you’ve taken that on!
January was not a good month for me to have a mystery box. It wasn’t a great month for me at all, for eBay work. I think I did one listing the whole month! However, I put the month to good use, clearing out the garage. My garage floor was getting to the point of “walking path only” and now I’ve cleared it back to only a few things on either side of the space, in front of the wall shelves. I’ve got 2 small piles of items on my workbench, a small crate of items on the floor next to it, and a tote of stuff underneath it. In terms of the definition, that would count as 4 mystery boxes! LOL. My February goal will be to clear at least one of them. I should probably start with the piles on the bench, so that I have space to work on stuff. I shall nominate the pile directly under my computer shelf as my February box. It’s probably only a dozen items, but it’s all clothing, which I hate listing! The positive would be that they’re gone and I don’t have to deal with them any more! Ha!
Happy February, everyone! Good luck with your boxes this month.
Spreadsheet updated and Lacy took the week. Well done!
Lookit me! I’m posting on time (if this post doesn’t get “eaten”)
Gak! Trying to figure out which posts work for which days is rather confusing. Anyway, I think I have it down. The winner for last week was most convincingly Julie, but as she is our Honorable this year, the win goes to Lacy who put up a great number. Spreadsheet updated.
Part of my long post last week was about a puppy that I was asked to foster. He was abandoned on the side of the road in the middle of winter, and found emaciated and freezing. There was one puppy with him, who did not survive the night. We have no idea how many puppies there were originally. Here’s what he looked like when we got him on Jan 12.
He was suffering with extreme abandonment issues as well as his health problems. It has taken me three weeks to build him back up to health and to be secure enough to trust going outside in the grass. He was dumped in the grass, it had very bad memories for him! He was an enormous amount of work as I couldn’t leave him alone for an instant. Plus with an approximate age of 4/5 weeks, I needed to feed him on a 4-hourly schedule: 7, 11, 3, 7, 11, 3. And yes, that second 3 was of the AM variety! He weighed just over 4lbs when I got him, less than half of his healthy weight for his age, according to the vet.
He was supposed to move on to a no-kill shelter this past Saturday to go wait for his Forever Home. Unfortunately, he never made it there.
Dang husband fell in love with the dang dog!
Here’s the same pup today with one of my older rescues. They look like they could be related, don’t they? Except that the puppy’s ears are droopy, while the dog’s ears are perky.
Now that he’s rehabilitated, he’s much less work. He’s put on weight, now at 11lbs, so he no longer requires multiple meals. With my free time (*rolls eyes*) I have been working on the promised purge in my garage and I love all my new space. I sent a car load of stuff to GW for some other enterprising seller to find, and even a bunch of stuff to the dump as it really wasn’t worth the effort of listing. Now that I’ve cleared so much, and finished washing all the rugs in my house for the umpteenth time (how long does it take to housetrain a puppy?) I hope to get a few listings up this week.
Wishing all you wonderful elves a fantastic week!
Yeah, I was donated a lot of mine, and a lot of it is not in my niche. Back when I received the donations, though, I didn’t have a niche! And I am still listing at a snail’s pace. Hmmm.. perhaps even slower than a snail… 😉
I’m working on purging at the moment, just so that I can clear enough space to work comfortably. I won’t be doing a Big Purge all at once. I’m going to clear an area/mystery box, list what remains, then move on to the next. That way I’m still working while I’m clearing and I’m not handling stuff twice. Unfortunately I live in an area that is too remote for a yard sale. We have a local street sale in our small town in May, and I may keep a few items for that. It depends on whether or not they are likely to sell for enough profit to justify getting up early and sitting on the roadside for 5 hours. LOL. Himself reckons I should just get rid of it and move on and, to be honest, it is extremely freeing to just let it go.
