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My TEDC list
- Go thru entire clothing rack and either: fix & list, toss or donate
- Go thru 1/2 of the Repair Bin: fix & list, toss or donate
- Go thru 2nd half of Repair Bin: fix & list, toss or donate
- Take physical inventory of all storage boxes that I haven’t done yet & relist any that have fallen off of eBay
- Clean & organize the red shipping table & list any unlisted items stored on it
- List all unlisted items from the shelf & floor areas in the Ebay room
- List all unlisted items from laundry basket in Ebay room
- List all unlisted items from the chico’s box
- Clean & organize desk
- List all unlisted items from the table in Ebay room
- List contents from one death pile box in the basement
- List contents from one death pile box from the basement
I may add to the list if I happen to complete more than one in a single month. That may be a bit of a lofty goal however. 🙂
3 listings last week. I’m posting late as I had a family emergency back home in Iowa. Dad had a scary heart/lung event that has completely stumped 4 different cardiologists. We got him back home but I’d feel better if they had some answers and a treatment plan. It feels like now we’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop. He’s had a bad heart for 25 years so the fact that he is still around is a bit of a miracle.
Turned my stores back on last night while at the airport and woke up to 3 sales. Time to get back into the swing of shipping.
I’m looking forward to figuring out my 12 challenge items. I printed out the form you created Amatino, it’s perfect!
Amatino – I just got around to reading your Designated Challenge post. You have the best ideas! I’ll start working on my list.
24 listings. My busiest listing days are Sat and Sun but I got the Moderna booster on Friday afternoon and it kind of depleted my energy for the weekend so I didn’t accomplish much.
I hope everyone enjoys this week leading up to Christmas!
Thanks for your advice Sharyn. I appreciate you taking the time to help me!
Well the buyer came back after fixing his address and repurchased the two items so I did have to ship the 2 buildings after all. And it was immensely cheaper to ship the buildings in two separate boxes than to ship them together in one larger box that measured 29″ on its longest side. Shipping two smaller boxes cost me $19.20 total ($9.60 per box) vs the $40+ it would have cost to ship the items together in one large box. So I guess that’s how I’ll plan on doing it if I run into this again.
@vintage-lacy – 137 orders!! I thought I was busy with my measly 16 orders this morning. I bow to the master!
53 listings even though I was away for 3 days! I parted out a 35 piece Bethlehem Village Set which made listings go pretty quickly since a lot of items I was able to sell similar and then just change the photos and a few words.
I’m trying to get my sales numbers up this month to end the year strong so I’ve been pretty motivated to list. It also helps that my husband is traveling for work a lot lately and I don’t have many family obligations over the holidays so my distractions are minimal.
My December sales are off to a great start. Hopefully it continues. It was spurred along by a $220 coat sale (which I paid up for) and a $300 nightgown I bought for $5 and sold in 24 hours.
I’ve been going to more estate sales. I used to be a bit of a snob about it and only hit up the ones that looked good and were run by certain companies. But after some great cheap scores from two estate sales that were privately ran and/or in more run down parts of town, I’ve decided I need to go to all of the local estate sales. That really only means 1 or 2 more a week. I’ve gotten pretty good at seeing the value in items that every other reseller in town seems to pass up so I’m finding stuff at most sales even when I don’t go the first day or 2 of the sale.
Amatino, I think your buyer is liar. He opens a return for an item but also happens to be out of the country so he can’t return it? My husband and I would call that a BOFBS which is how we text each other when we mean “Bunch of F—ing Bull S—” Kinda crass but it makes us feel better. We started using it after a Dana Carvey stand up special where he joked his teenage son would mumble it so often it became his catch phrase.
27 listings. 0 Travel related.
My step daughter and son in law bought a house site unseen back in Sept. He was being transferred across country by the military. The house they got had 10 offers on the first day. Many were all cash offers from investors looking to buy in a small lake town outside of Savannah that is about to take off. They only got it because the house flipper was retired military who had the same job as my son in law so he chose their offer, even though it meant some extra hoops for him. I don’t know how young people can otherwise buy a house these days.
Ebay sales have been strong the last few days. Switching to sourcing hard goods over clothing was the right decision! But that stuff takes up so much more room. I need to come up with some additional storage. I think I can fit more into my basement but it’s going to require quite a bit of manual labor.
26 listings, 0 death pile. Hoping to be a listing fiend this week since my distractions should be at a minimum (hopefully I didn’t just jinx myself).
Been doing tons of shipping the last 24 hours and so far I have 21 items to take to the post office today. That’s all items that have sold since mid-morning Saturday. 1 on Mercari, 0 Poshmark, 20 Ebay. I’d say 2/3rds of it is hard good items I started purchasing recently to get away from clothing. I guess that was a good decision.
Thanks for the kind thoughts Amatino and Lacy. And thanks for linking to a TENS unit. I have one that I use when PMS cramps get out of control. Wish I’d known about Tens units years ago.
35 listings for me – 0 death piles touched.
Amatino, you’re not going to believe this. I threw my lower back out on Wednesday! What are the chances?? I took Aleve and iced it within the hour which I think helped it from becoming as debilitating as prior episodes but it still is no fun!
43 listings, 0 met the challenge.
Amatino, I’ve thrown my lower back out 3 times in the last two years. And like you, one time it was due to housework – reaching for laundry. Best to avoid housework all together – its for our health, har har.
Saturday I went to two estate sales and both were surprisingly amazing. Now my eBay room looks like a tornado hit it. And the backseat of my car is full of heavily perfumed clothing from one of the sales. I have to clean the ebay room in order to bring in the other stuff – ugh
For mens coats I include the following measurements, which are all taken straight across while the jacket is flat and unstretched:
Chest (armpit to armpit)
Shoulder to shoulder
If you want to include sleeve, you actually measure it starting right under the collar in the center of the upper back.
Womens clothing typically requires many more measurements.
