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Hey… VT… we’re waiting…..
Spreadsheet updated. Vintage Lacy slam dunked for the win!
Wiped out this week, VT, on both challenges. I only listed 3 and I didn’t list every day. I tried, I really tried. I even had a chat with the other half about creating a routine that would allow me to list daily and he agreed it was a good idea. Long story in the TELC thread on my week to explain it, but I totally accept that I failed.
This week looks awful, up front. I have dance schedules for tonight, Tuesday AND Thursday, and sewing machine runs as well. Plus, I forgot to mention on the other side that my hubs’ business has had an “upgrade” and we now have a Facebook page and a new website, both of which are my responsibility to build and maintain. Takes quite a bit of time, it turns out!
Oh well, excuses aside, I shall have to do some scheduling and planning and MAKE IT WORK! Only 2 listings a day, dammit, surely I can do that!
So, VT, what do you have in store for me this week?
Oh my dizzy aunt, Vintage Lacy! Un – be- LIEV – able! You are a listing MACHINE! We all bow down to you and swoon at your feet!
Congratulations on your upgrade, Vintage Treasures, you did wonderfully this week. And you, Sharyn, so close too!
And, in contrast to you 3 listing giants, I am pitiful. Pitiful, I tell you! Before I ‘fess up, let me tell you about my week. Grab a cuppa, this is so ridiculous it’s funny!
The dog vet visits were reduced to only Monday and Friday this week, so I gained a day (Yay!) but both trips took the entire morning. Coming home to packing parcels for shipping and a host of other tasks for the Hubs’ business, only listed one item on Monday.
My hair is over a yard long, so I usually braid it at night as either me or him rolling onto my tresses often results in my being trapped. Monday evening, I was relaxing in bed reading a book with my braid partially over one shoulder when I noticed it began to slide down my chest… and it seemed to be moving! I jumped up and brushed at it, then inspected the whole bed, lifting pillows and flapping blankets, looking for a suspected scorpion. Nothing. I figured it was just my hair sliding down under its own weight. I settled back into bed, slightly rattled, and carried on reading. Minutes later I felt something on the other side, glanced over, and it WAS a scorpion! A big one, casually sauntering down my arm. I flicked it off my arm, now in a total panic, and it landed on the edge of the bed, where my husband decapitated it after I shrieked in terror for his rescue. I’m such a girl!
Obviously, it had been on my braid the first time and, when I flicked my braid, it rode it like a zipline, all the way around my back to the other side, then dismounted and strolled over my shoulder. How I didn’t lie on it and/or get stung, I have no idea! I did NOT sleep well!
Tuesday involved Serious Extermination Work. We mixed up a new batch of Tempo (awesome stuff!) and sprayed the entire house, inside and out, moving furniture and soaking access points. I also sprayed my storage unit, inside and out. Then stuff got cleaned up and replaced. In the evening I had dance class and sewing machine deliveries; listings – zero.
Wednesday was hair coloring day. I was about a month overdue and several people, including total strangers, were commenting on my outgrowth, so it was urgent. I use henna, so it’s a several hours project: apply, wait 2-4+ hours, wash it out. In those 4+ hours I took a bunch of photos, so it wasn’t wasted time, but I didn’t get any listings done. Thursday was entirely sewing machine business and dance business. Friday was another vet visit, plus an inspection visit for a quote to repair my dented door from a frisky bollard at the gas station that accosted my car. Saturday, now desperate to get my numbers up, I sat down to edit the photos and managed to list 2 more, in the midst of all the other running around I had to get through, and then Sunday we had a batch of visitors and ranch tasks that totally wiped out the day. By 10PM, when the last visitor had left and I sat down at my computer, I looked despairingly at my meagre listing total and sighed. There was just no way I was going to start listing at 10PM and be finished by midnight, no matter what I did, so I closed up and went to bed.
So there you have it. 3 whole listings. Pitiful, I told you! On the positive side, though, my hair looks terrific, my dog is doing wonderfully, and there’s not a scorpion anywhere inside this house!
07/27/2019 at 10:50 pm in reply to: What do I need for a beginner to take super high quality photos on a budget? #65497Oh – edit to the above! There are a whole host of light boxes on the interwebz. I chose this one specifically because it came with integrated lighting. Currently, having too much stuff and too little space, this works for me, even though I need to edit my lighting EVERY time. However, if I had more space for a better set up, I think I’d go for the boxes with the diffuser sides that you set up lights around. The integrated lighting always creates light reflection, the diffuser doesn’t work well. I haven’t worked with the other kind, so can’t tell which is actually better. If I ever get around to buying another set up, I’ll post a comparison.
07/27/2019 at 10:45 pm in reply to: What do I need for a beginner to take super high quality photos on a budget? #65495This is all great advice… unless you live in a house with tiny windows so you need to turn on the lights in the middle of a Texas summer! π
While I agree with all of the above, for me, with my mausoleum lighting, my best investment ever and one that I wish I had done waaaaay back in the beginning, was my lightbox. I bought this one because it was on sale, but now that I have it, I wish I’d bought the Amazon one because of the black edging on the ESDDI. The silvery sides of the ESDDI are problematic too, often creating a reflection or awkward coloring. I much prefer the all white interior of the Amazon version.
The item specifics are used to create the drill-down filters on the left of the page when you are searching as a buyer. As a seller, they’re a huge PIA to fill in. As a buyer, I wish more sellers DID use them! With a search returning 9,486 results, being able to drill down to even hardware color on a purse is a big deal. In May I spent days, DAYS, searching for a purse with silver D-clips. (Funny that your rant is about purses, when I just had this search! LOL) I had a very specific reason for that search, but it would have been a lot easier if I could have wiped out half the entries for listings with other color hardware. I know it’s annoying, but it’s a aide effect of the huge quantity of stuff, most of it new and generic, that’s filling up the catalogs.
@Sharyn and Mark S – thank you for clearing up a head scratcher for me. I couldn’t figure out why my shipping policy showed copies and why things kept changing up. Now I know and will add it as another housekeeping task, to check on my policies and clean them up on occasion.
My favorite is being told the perfume “stinks nice!”
I agree with Antique Frog. This looks like a Mariachi band with flamenco dancers. Cool set!
You ladies are a scream! Monday’s are such fun looking forward to y’all!
Yes, VT, you did it right. And you threw down a gauntlet! I knew we could drag you over to the Dark Side! π
Phew! What a week. Spreadsheet updated. Only 6 listings tipped the scales for Vintage Lacy to take the win. And the race is on for this week!
Sharyn, one of us should blow in with a humdinger and totally upset the apple cart. Hmmmmm…. you have a photo helper this week. You do it! LOL
That is obviously my problem. I have major ADHD! π π π π
Pfft, VT. Age is just mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. And 60 is only middle aged, as the Good Lord Himself said “The age of man will be 120 years.” Hope that makes you feel better! π
My week SUCKED! The dog decided to take a snooze behind the work truck up at the barn – so I ended up with a high speed sprint to the vet. My car is lower than the truck, but loading 100lbs of bleeding dog is not for the faint-hearted! As it’s 20 miles from our house to the vet (the not-so-benefit of living rural) I had to sit and wait until they were done/found time/completed the x-rays, yada yada. The good news was no broken bones or popped organs. The bad news was that her paws were hamburger meat and she needed to be put under so that they could clean up and treat them. I left her there and dashed home, threw all my orders into packaging, dashed back to the post office – missed it, closed already – dashed to the next town post office and just made it, then back to the vet to wait some more to take my woozy doggie home. This is the outside dog. She’ll come in for a treat, or a scratch, but then wants to be let out again. Now she had to stay indoors for the whole week! It was torture for both of us. Add to that a trip every 2 days for the special skin growth solution and a rebandaging, which was about 3-4 hours out of each day and it was not a productive week!
So, it is with great pride that I tell you that I achieved my Death Pile Challenge this week, listing all DP items in my 13 listings. And I sorted out my shelving to achieve the mini-challenge that Vintage Treasures and I had for this week over in the Death Pile Support Group too! Only squeaked in, to be honest, as I have just finished, but we’re heading out for dinner with friends, so I’m done for the week!
Doggie is doing much better, to all who are concerned, thank you. She’s already trying to chase down the deer and stuff on her evening potty runs, and is fussing to be let out, so we’re confident she’s well on the mend.
Hope everyone else had a good week!
We’re supposed to be leaving in 20 minutes to go to dinner with friends, so I’m done for the week. And I juuuuuust slid in on both challenges this week!
The bookshelf is done. Very bottom shelf in the photo is the paperwork, with the little divider thingies separating each business. Next shelf up is my stationery shelf. I’m loving this shelf! It’s all exactly at hand when I need it. The space on the right there holds my camera when it’s not snapping photos of shelving to show off in this thread… LOL
Top shelf is my new dedicated listing space, loaded ready for next week with my 10 items.
The very top has not yet been cleared, I just ran out of time, but I have enough small stuff to fit into the current shelf. I’ll get to the top eventually. But for now, I have Step 1 – have a dedicated listing space, and Step 2 – Have a small list next pile. Yay!
Made the listing challenge too, as all my items were Death Piles this week. Only squeaked in, but I did it, so I’m thoroughly proud of myself. So as to not clutter up with double info, I’ll explain my week in the TELC thread.
My goal for this week is to maintain steps 1 and 2, now that I have them set up, and move on to Step 3 – List daily. I have to admit, I don’t. I make my listing goal somehow, but with a listing sprint, rather than a daily schedule. So this week, I’m going to work out how to schedule a daily listing time and make it into a routine.
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