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Spreadsheet updated. Another impressive win for Julie B.
Wow, Lacy, that sounds like a magic trip!
Wishing everyone a great week!
Yay! I’m back on the board! I posted 11 listings, even with having Da Grandson here!
I hoped for more but a teenage boy is quite a lot of work! It has been great fun though. Yesterday we took him to iFly for an indoor skydiving experience and he had a total blast! On Friday he went to a Native American presentation and was dressed up in full Chieftain regalia. (He said it was way too hot to wear an entire buffalo skin! LOL) He is having a grand time. This week he’s off with the Old Man to go fishing down at the coast. I get a couple days free, but I won’t be able to sock it to listings, unfortunately. I had the rather unpleasant wake up call to the fact that I have less than six weeks until both my Charity Dance Show and our quilt group’s annual Quilt Fest! I’ve got to make costumes AND quilts for the same time frame! Plus I need to finish the sewing for the kids, both for the boy to wear here and for him and his mom to take home. Yikes!:D
I signed up for the last virtual meeting and it was mostly about selling sneakers or car parts. Very, very geared towards the high-dollar retail market.
However, I must be a sucker for punishment, because I’ve signed up again. I think I’m hoping they took the MANY complaints to heart from the last one and will actually have some value this time around.
Spreadsheet updated. As we all figured, Julie wiped the floor with us all! LOL
Have a great week, y’all!
Great numbers there Julie and looking forward to yours in the future, Sharyn.Sending healing thoughts your way, Lacy! Thanks, VT.
Zip, zilch and zero for me. BUT I have a grandson present and accounted for. The flight was “boring” according to the teen, and he nearly missed his connecting flight due to another accompanied minor not having her luggage. Excitement! He is having a wonderful time and his mother is feeling just a little abandoned. I now have TWO boys in the house and the younger is the least hassle. LOL.
Yesterday was spent entirely taking care of introducing the kid to the house and the environment, but today I got stuck into listing again. Hoping to post some decent numbers in the weeks to come.
Sheesh, I’m really bad at updates at the moment! Apologies everyone! Final countdown until the grandson arrives and I’m going crazy with house organizing and stuff.
Julie, that is awful! Sending hugs to make you feel better, and best wishes for a speedy and safe surgery with a quick recovery and no repeats! And what a great haul! I’m not a fan of clothes either, but sales are sales, yeah?
Have a great vacay, Christine. Especially as you won the week! 😀
Nice find, Lacy. Post a photo of your collection?
I was going to say I listed zero, but then I realized that I actually listed 3 on FB and Craigslist. A listing is a listing, right? Not sure that I’ll get anything listed this week, as I have some final items to sort out before the Grand Arrival of the Grandson, but I’m hoping to dive in. One unintended but very happy consequence of the Great Move and subsequent Grand Arrival has been a major organization and declutter exercise. Instead of packing boxes and stuffing them in the attic, I’ve actually been sorting things out, dehoardifying, and finding places for things so that they can be put away. This means that it’s done – permanently! I don’t have to fetch down a box to organize and sort through. And… dun dun dunnnnn… I can find everything! That’s such a huge change! LOL. Also somewhat sobering. I have a lot! I’ll be sorting through my fabrics and probably selling some. It’s good fabric, but I bought it when I was brand new to sewing and didn’t know better. Now I’m a bit of a fabric snob and wouldn’t dream of using some of the polyester options for example, or I know that I can’t wear it because it doesn’t breathe and I’d suffocate in our triple digit weather. I’m super excited to have my home this sorted and sincerely pray that I can hang up my firefighter hat and start working at a more normal pace.
Wishing you all a great week and a happy holiday, Christine!
Julie, no numbers this week? I hope you’re not worse! Sending hugs that you feel better soon!
VT, may you enjoy your mini-vacay knowing that you won the week! Congrats! Narrowly beat Christine to take the crown.
Sharyn, no travel for me at all this year so far. I hope you all have a great time away plus a little extra for me! LOL.
Wishing you all a great week, traveling or staying home, visiting or having visitors!
Julie, hope you feel better soon!
I bet you’re thrilled not to lose time in a trial, Sharyn!
Lacy, you get the best stuff! Sending best wishes for a successful show.
Spreadsheet updated. Congrats on a great win, Christine!
Apologies for not updating yesterday, ladies. I was in a Workshop and left at 6:30AM and didn’t get home until late.
What a fun run on listings this week. Congrats to Christine for winning the week.
It feels really strange to already be in the second half of the year. Anyone else with me? I can’t believe we’ve gone through six months already, although if I look back at how much I’ve done (not on eBay!) I can see huge strides. Have you ever noticed that life is somewhat like climbing a mountain? It seems a never ending upward battle, until you stop to rest and look back at how far you’ve come.
Wishing you all a fantastic week.
Ha! I left you all in the dust with a whopping zero! 😀
Love the duplicates that keep popping up! Great find there, Lacy! And yay for Skittles! I thought about them this week, wondering how many folks are still working on their skittles and/or using Google Keep.
Last week I got the “it’s not you, it’s us!” (INYIU) message from eBay that the servers are down. I tried refreshing, a hard refresh, clearing my cache, clearing my entire history, switching computers, switching browsers. I could browse, even open listings, but if I tried to go to Drafts or Create Listing in my Seller hub, or even Sell Similar on an existing listing, it went back to the INYIU message. It was SO frustrating! Eventually I checked with the FB group I’m in and I was not alone. Others were experiencing the same thing. So it was not (just) me!
Then I got really busy with other work and ended up not listing anything at all for the week! *crying*
I’ve got a busy week ahead. Tomorrow I’m going to an all-day Barn Block Painting Class. We’re meeting at 6:45AM, I need to leave at 6:30AM!!! Friday morning our Pyrenees is getting her first salon grooming and I will be going to a quilt meeting, so my entire morning will be gone, and I’m very busy with the dance class. We’ve been invited back, by unanimous vote for the 3rd year in a row, to perform at a charity function. I’m working on a new choreo that we’ll be performing there, plus three new costume sets for our ladies. However, I am also working on a new system of Mini Routines and am trying to squeeze in 2 hours of eBay each day. Servers willing, I’ll have listings to show this week.
Happy 4th, everyone! Or as my daughter put it – Happy American Brexit! 😀
Wow, Christine, what great listing numbers! You win the week, hands down!
Julie, we must have been posting at similar times (and we have the same number! LOL) I’m really sorry to hear about your fibroid and I hope that your surgeon can get you well again very quickly.
Thanks Sharyn. It’s a beautiful room but it has given us so much trouble. For anyone considering major construction, trust me when I tell you that the contractor you use can break you! We’d have been better off using a more expensive contractor, it would have cost us less in the long run. I am SO tired of unpacking areas that I have already packed so that we can fix/change/update something.
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Ha! Hard to figure out how I could go in reverse… but I did! Only 2 listings this week.
I’ve spent the week in Manual Labor. For those of you claiming photos or it didn’t happen
Plastic curtains in front of my inventory, mesh curtains on the garage, solar rollers on the east-facing sunroom windows, followed by solar film and, finally, sanding down the table and chairs (pictured.) (You can kinda see the treated windows in the background.) Plus a whole lotta organizing, sorting, clutter identification and removal, and general dehoardifying. Our grandson arrives for a solo summer holiday with us in the first week of August and we hope to have the house done before he gets here. It’s just over 4 weeks until he arrives. Considering what still has to be done, I think “yikes” is about right! 😀
Wow, Christine, you were beat by a nose right at the finish line! Congrats to Lacy for a great win!
Spreadsheet updated and Julie and Lacy got the point for the armpit challenge. We have one more week for the Challenge, folks. Next Monday will be your last chance to grab a point. Yes, Monday is July, but most of this week (all of the weekdays) are in June, so it counts in my book.
Sharyn – and how! We get a Severe Heat Advisory every day and are in triple digits by lunch time. It’s killer hot. I was working in the sunroom for just an hour or two before retreating to the garage, but we recently found some roller shades that are installed on the outside of the windows. They’re cheap, easy to install and holey smokes effective! I am astounded at the difference they have made. If you struggle with a “hot side” on your house, I can wholeheartedly recommend these. We also ordered solar film to put on the windows, so it will double down on the effect and hopefully make the room workable. I have my photobooth set up there as well as it supposed to be my sewing room. Being able to spend several hours taking photos without melting into a sticky puddle will be fabulous.
Well, you have a few days. Go dig out that one armpit item. Go on. It will take you a few minutes to find it and you can let it glare at you for the whole week and then finally list it on Sunday and it will still count!
Good morning, all. An unfortunate low of 4 listings for me this week. And nada for the Armpit Challenge as well. Too much else going on, but I’ve already started working on my listings today, so hopefully I’ll have a better report next week.
eBay has both picked up and tanked. In the past, if I listed, I got sales the next day. Now I list and crickets. However, this weekend I got 5 orders – but not a single view on any of my newly listed items. These are all old (some 3+ years old) that are selling. I’ll take the sales and ignore the rest. If I try to figure out how eBay (doesn’t) work, I’ll go a little loco.
Wishing you all a great week!
