Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Here’s some of what we sold recently…
1920 Oliver plow book, inherited item, sold for $90:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112742607493Dexter Golf Shoes, paid $3, sold for $27 and they got returned because the soles fell off which is a good reminder to always do the bend test even on unused shoes:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112897676168Found item, sold for $33:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112808251224Matelasse queen size bedspread (not vintage, but not new either), paid $3, sold for $45:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112967856040Jack Georges purse, $1 at a rummage sale, sold for $81, woohoo! Never heard of this brand before but the Jack Georges name was plastered all over it which is a good sign.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112976003392Banana Republic silk scarf, bought for 25 cents at a rummage sale, sold for $20:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112429523996Yes, we just had a repair man come out ($85) for a diagnosis and he said we might as well buy a new one because repair could be anywhere from $300 to $600+. So I guess this freezer will end up in a landfill. ARGH!
We’re going to take out the shelves and use them elsewhere or maybe sell them, but can’t really part out much else since we don’t know what’s wrong with it. What a waste.
@Luntmentsh – Freezers, argh! I swear the new ones are made very badly. Our 10 year old upright Frigidaire freezer recently went belly-up (in the basement) and we didn’t notice until the smell was… I figure we lost about $1000 worth of food. And the freezer was $900 to begin with so maybe you’re right about it not being worth it. We had been buying whole local organic grass-fed beeves so it made sense then, but we might not bother anymore. Funnily enough, the freezer has an “alarm” on it that didn’t alarm us at all since it still thought the inside was 0 degrees. POS!
The gyro meat is baked first, then chilled, sliced and browned/grilled right before eating. Here’s a link to the recipe.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/258848/american-gyros/?internalSource=hub%20recipe&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%204We’ve tried to do meal planning but the plan always goes awry. Usually because something makes more or fewer servings than we figured on. Then you’ve got leftovers so the plan flies out the window. We still manage to eat 95% home-cooked meals though. I recently made gyros, pita and tzatziki all from scratch (thanks to Chef John of foodwishes.com), and it was so dang good. It’s so hard to find decent gyros where I live now and was missing them. We’re really frugal too, on a day to day basis, but then splash out on things like Trex decking!
Thanks Sharyn, it sounds like something I shouldn’t do right before vacation…
I put entire store on 10% off yesterday and woke up to a $90 sale. Just one, but hopefully the beginning of a good thing.
@AdventureE – Aha! It doesn’t happen in Chrome or IE at work. At home I used MS Edge. Thanks very much!
Upon further testing, it doesn’t happen every time with handling cost, but even clicking the box to allow best offers to be made sometimes invokes the 10 cent insertion fee. WTF?!? I’m just revising listings, not adding big photos or anything.
@AdventureE – Sorry to say that didn’t work either. Guess I’ll have to spend a couple hours on the phone with ebay…. or just keep deleting the unwanted html. Thanks to everyone who tried to figure it out.
@Jay – Correct, I’ve never used any of those tools.
