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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! 😉
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.
I had a buyer ask me to please redo the photos of a coat with the model wearing black gloves, as he was buying the coat for his mother and she always wears black driving gloves.
I photoshopped some black gloves into the existing photo and emailed it back. Not a word! 😀
Antique Frog – That is so fascinating!
I love her story, and her view on folks finding her knives secondhand. And the side hustle that she makes corsets and bras! I KNEW those things were implements of torture!
Oh, that was brilliant. That is SO what happens on FB. And did you read the comments too? 😀 😀 😀 😀
@Clarity Thanks so much. Will give it a go!
@AntiqueFrog Wow, that is so interesting! I’ve never heard of that before and it was an interesting trip down a rabbit hole! Thanks
@Jay It’s been soaking for days now. The tape is so old and dried on that it’s just not moving.
@Clarity We’re concerned that it will damage the finish on the machine. It has a high gloss finish, like car paint. Have you tried it on something similar?
Erk! Yes, we’re on. This is going to be a stretch, but a stretch is good, every now and then! 😉
Flipper Tools fixed the problem on their site and now it works again. It was down for a while, and they were very transparent about it on the site and in their Facebook group.
Vintage Treasures, sorry about your family member. 🙁 For some reason, I always thought you and I were the same age! To be honest, it’s having kids that keeps me up to date with the lingo. And having a class with a variety of ages too, they said what now? Google is my friend! Also, FWIW*, the acronym can be split, depending on your circumstances. You can use ROFL, or LMAO.
*Heheheheh Giving you new Google search options!Vintage Lacy, awesome find. I still have the typewriter I was given for my 11th birthday, 40 years ago! My husband has a vintage Remington, one of those big block style ones. Unfortunately, it’s damaged, but it still looks cool!
Sharyn, that is a FULL van! 😀 But now you have to spill… how do you resurrect an expired listing? I often want to and I thought the only way to do that was to pay for a program like SixBit or WonderLIster.
Spreadsheet updated. Vintage Treasure takes the crown this week.
Let’s unpack that Step #1 and see if we can (to quote Tim Gunn) make it work!
Remove all items from your listing area except for the one item you’re listing. Have a dedicated listing space.
Now, first off, I note this is a two-fer. Do you have a “dedicated listing space”? I can tell you right now, I don’t and physically cannot. My home is a whopping 995 square feet and about the only thing that’s dedicated to one task is the shower! Everything has to do double duty, at the very least. My living room is split into three – I have my “office” in one corner, my “sewing room” in another corner, and my tv room/living room/drawing room/extra space for the overflow from one of the other corners room for the rest of it. It’s also the pass-through dogtrot, with the front door leading in and through to the dining room, which opens directly onto the deck. In Spring and Fall, we open doors on both sides and let the wind whistle through. This is Texas – any time we get cool enough to turn off the a/c, we go straight for the dogtrot and natural air conditioning!
In my “office”, I run 4 different businesses, with those file sorting trays on a shelf to keep the paperwork separate. So I can’t even have that as a dedicated space! I had thought about having a plastic tote bin on the floor under my desk in which I store my “to list” items, but that defeats my goal of clearing the space. However, I am about halfway through clearing another shelf on the bookshelf next to my desk. I can dedicate that shelf to the cause. So, if I were to operate in the spirit of Step #1, I would clear that shelf, and only stock that shelf with the 10 items I plan to list. Then, in accordance with part 2 of the step (Part 1? It’s listed before the instruction to have a dedicated space…) I would choose one item off that shelf and put it on my desk to actually list it. That could work… My only concern is that the shelf is a standard bookshelf shelf, so tall items wouldn’t fit. Unless I clear and add the top of the bookshelf to my “dedicated space.” I could put things on top and on the shelf directly below the top, giving me two “shelves” but one dedicated space.
What do you think, VT? Shall we create a dedicated listing space? Would that help you to conquer this one? I can see how it would work for me. I’d have a place to put things that isn’t actually cluttering up my desk or the floor around my desk.
Oooh… I can have a clear floor around my desk! Now, THAT would be novel!
Simon – eBay topic – yes! Especially now that I have the new Google Pixel 3a and can take photos in the eBay app (was dreadful on the old phone.) I find that I have to edit my contrast and lightness a lot and it often returns a file error when I press the save button after editing. I tried hitting Reset, but it didn’t retrieve the photo. If I use my PC to upload off a camera disc, I have to watch my loading so as not to cut it off. I’ve found that updating item specifics or something can interfere with photo loading and, for the love of sanity, don’t enter any UPC or you’ll lose the lot!
Still finding items not tracked in PayPal. I logged into my account and there’s a notification at the top saying to print labels or add tracking. Opened it up and I had tracking requirements back to May.
Ryanne’s comment about the guy who claimed back on PP made me think to check. I don’t know why it’s not updating off eBay, I do all my shipping through the eBay system. I’ve never had a Bonanza item update in PayPal, even though I go through their system, so I’m not surprised at that.
@Liz For GSP items, there was an option to add each leg of the shipping info. I had between 2 and 4 tracking numbers when I pulled up my detailed tracking on eBay and I input each one into PP. It seems to make the PP robot happy.Jay, your willingness to do a podcast despite your stutter has always been a point of huge respect and admiration for me. I was thrilled to find someone who had such self-confidence that he would talk, instead of just writing a blog, despite having what society considers an impediment. You inspired me in a personal way, as well as giving me so much good information about eBay. You are my hero!
You do you. I’m pretty sure there’s a huge slice of the Scavenger Life Tribe behind me who all believe you’re the best you, just the way you are. Treat these odd emails like you treat Grumpy Buyers – shrug, and delete.
Last week Vintage Treasures did the Wicked Witch cackle and slapped me with a penalty for failing the Death Pile Challenge. You can stroll over to the Death Pile Support Group to read all about it; suffice to say it sure did light a fire under the old (and saggy) keister! My sincere thanks to VT for the flames!
Did 22 listings this week, many of which were multiple items, so I’ve whacked out a ton of stuff, all Death Pile. Woot woot!
Now I have to tell you a funny story about it. To list fast, I created a draft, photographed, then finished and listed. Everything went into a bin for packing and a SKU number later. Batch listing, yeah? When I had a bin full, I packed, SKU’d, added the SKU to the Active Listings page on my laptop, and hoofed it all down to the shed. Empty bin, start again. Rinse and repeat.
Well, this morning, I was SKU-ing merrily and not one, but two, of my items were missing. Not in my listings. What the…? Did a search. Nothing. Did a more generic search. Nothing. Grrrrr…. Then I remembered I had sent the ID of one of the missing items to my kid, so I pulled up the chat and clicked on the link. I was getting my story together so that I could VENT at eBay for my disappearing items. Only… they weren’t disappeared. They were SOLD! ROFLMAO! What a week!
