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Holy cow, Libby! Do you sleep as a hobby? Sheesh!
Where’s the button to decrease font size on this thread? I want to make my next sentence really really small…
I listed 2 last week.
@Jo Thanks. The comment on feng shui was spot on, in that I don’t feel happy in this space. We’ve been renovating our small house, but not got to the living room yet, and the entire room is not welcoming at all. Hmmm… hadn’t considered that.
Agreed I need to power through some stuff. Something has to give! LOL
Finally got some photos done. Here’s my Album of Shame.
Not as much as I thought, actually, but still enough to be intimidating. I have boxes hidden under my desk, shelves next to my desk, and a box on the floor of my living room. Then in the garage is a whole shelf of boxes, the shelf being 30″ wide by nearly 17 feet long. Almost one half of my 8′ x 16′ shed is Death Piles.
Now that I’m looking around me, I’m wondering… should I pick an area to start and clear it? Say, the box on my living room floor, followed by the items under my desk and then next to my desk? Or continue with my current program which is wipe out all the clothing, that I hate listing, and then get to the “fun stuff” later? The Eat the Frog First principle?
Ugh. It may not be as much as I thought but it’s still something that I’d rather close the door on and go do some sewing instead. Too intimidating, I’d rather be an ostrich. π
@bcfol440 Pool noodles! Genius! They’re easy to cut. Make a stack of noodles taped together for the “butt” and then cut them down at an angle to narrow into the thighs, then cut off a couple altogether to narrow into knees and calves. And so easy to manipulate!
@sonia yes, I did. I tried it once but my photography time is already way too long and it was so fiddly, not to mention needing a box of paper in my photo area – one more item to fall over. Gave it up.@retro I thought that a mannequin would be unwieldy to manipulate. I have a standing mannequin I use for shirts, jackets, etc., and she has an offset option so that I can put pants on her too, but it’s always a wrestling match. That’s why the tights seemed like such a good idea – flexible and lightweight. And why I like bcfol440’s idea of pool noodles even more. With a long piece of wire threaded through the noodle (like an opened wire hanger, for example) I can even pose the legs.
02/21/2019 at 11:30 am in reply to: Holy sticker shock Batman! 14oz 1st class package cost buyer $7.85! #57434I had the same thing happen too. One item cost me $5 and the buyer was charged $9. One item cost me just over $3 and the buyer was charged more than $9. I’ve noticed this on several first class items. Generally, if the difference between what the buyer paid and what I pay is more than $10, I refund the buyer the difference less FVF, but it feels a bit odd to keep double the shipping, even if it is only an extra $5. (I use calculated shipping throughout.)
I think, in effect, your listing is shown twice in search results. I was searching for some supplies for costumes and I noticed that I was getting duplicates of listing that I’d already looked at. After it happened a few times, I started paying attention and noticed that there are listings that say “SPONSORED” that show up again in the general listings.
@Sharyn I owe you an apology! I’m so sorry!
I was muttering about how I’ve got these prizes for last year’s Challenge and nobody has emailed me the addresses and then I found your email. You sent it while I was sick and it kind of got buried in the deluge. I think the Universe was just waiting for me to start muttering and then unveiled it with a smug Sheldon Cooper BAZINGA! π
It will be in the mail this week! I hope you like it. Especially as you had to wait so long!
LOL. I remember a quote I read once that said “I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once!”
Perhaps we should replace ‘days’ with ‘death pile boxes’? π
@christiner Thanks. Only… I was just given a box with 20 (TWENTY!) pairs of men’s pants, 7 pairs of men’s jeans, a dozen baby clothes, a couple pairs women’s jeans, and a zip up hoodie. And here I was bragging that I’d cleared all my mens pants section! :'(
I was embarrassed just recently at being the buyer in a buy-cancel-buy scenario, but I’ve hung around with you guys long enough that I messaged him to know I wasn’t a total loon! The screw on a bobbin case fell out, and we couldn’t find it, so we ordered a replacement. Then we found it, so we cancelled (within about 30 minutes of the order and on a weekend, so it couldn’t be shipped anyway.) Without a word, the seller cancelled and refunded. Then we discovered the screw had stripped, so I had to buy it again – with a message explaining what had happened. Again, without a word, the seller just processed the order. I guess he’s dealt with enough crazy buyers in his day! π
Just to let you know that not every cancellation is crazy or a scam, although the OP’s person does sound hinky!
Spreadsheet updated. And Sharyn’s on the board with her first point! Well done!
@Vintage Treasures You’re right. I was in such a rush to get the updated spreadsheet done I missed that. Sorry. Have corrected it on the spreadsheet, so it will show correctly for last week.
@ChristineR Last year was a real pain in the whatsit because I didn’t track COGS either, so this year I changed my SKU. I have an alphanumeric SKU that denotes category and item number. So A001 is the first item in the Automotive category and K396 is almost 400 clothes items. Now I’m adding a new alphanumeric to that set, denoting source and cost. So T5 = thrift store $5 and Y.25 = yard sale 25c. The new SKU would then show up as K396T5, for example. I’m also doing my best to list what I get in the week I get it, partially so that I don’t lose my cost and partially so that I don’t add to my Death Piles. We’ll see if that makes my life any easier come taxes 2020! Ha!Yay, I listed 8 items! Hold me back! π I was pretty chuffed that I got that much done, although I really really REALLY wanted to do better, but it has been one clown short of a circus around here the past few weeks. Today I spent all morning with one of my dancers designing two of her dance costumes. I’ve got beads, rhinestones, lace, ribbon, feathers and fabric spread all over! It looks like a unicorn exploded in here! Tomorrow I’m doing a packing presentation at a ladies church group. However, the hubs has gone on the trip he was supposed to leave on a couple weeks ago, so now I can get stuck into stuff that’s on MY to do list rather than his! Perhaps I’ll manage to clear his machine backlog, clean up my unicorn ordnance, and get some serious listing numbers up.
@bcfol440 Well done! May the sales roll indeed!
@Jo You speak-a my language! I tend to be overwhelmed – too much input makes my brain shut down and I just can’t see where to begin. I tried Christine’s trick of sorting by like and Almasty’s option to do one box at a time and they both work … kinda. It just seemed to overtake me despite my best efforts. Eventually I conquered the Death Pile Deluge Demon by combining the two methods.I went to the Home Depot and got the largest boxes they’d let me have from their dump pile. The smallest one was 30″ square! I put about a dozen in my garage and unpacked everything into those boxes. I taped a sheet of letter size printer paper onto the front of each box and labelled them by broad categories. For example, “ladies’ clothes”, “men’s clothes”, “toys”, “books and board games”, “home decor”, “DIY”, “electronic and computer”, and so on. I had a couple unlabelled boxes spare. Then I unpacked everything into those boxes. Every square inch of space was emptied into those boxes. It was both freeing and terrifying. I hadn’t realized I had so much!
Once I’d cleared everything, I had to use a trolley to move the boxes I wasn’t going to work in to another spot out of the way. Then I could go through one box at a time. I could split the general category down into smaller LIKE sections; so e.g. men’s clothes could be broken down into shirts, shorts, pants, ties, etc. Then I’d list using sell similar.
It helped for a while, but my listing process is too slow and it all got away from me again. I need a do-over, I think. However, I did manage to clear my entire jeans pile and my mens shirts, and a few other smaller piles. I think I wiped out my computer pile and made pretty good returns on those!
Wow, that’s organized! I must get around to doing my photos too. Will try to schedule that this weekend.
Oh my gosh, folks, I’m so sorry! I blame it on usually being the last person to post anything, and because I had posted in this thread, my mind said “done” and I completely forgot to come back and do the spreadsheet! Dang, I suck! π
Spreadsheet updated. Libby wins the week.
Will note in my calendar in future to update on Tuesdays.
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