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Wow…congrats Sharyn and VT. I got exactly zero listings done last week. I’m impressed that y’all got so much done! I might get a few done this coming weekend…but we’ll see.
Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas to everyone too!
Thanks ladies for being such a bright and warm spot in my life this year.
This weekend is always the busiest sales weekend of the year for me but I did manage to have a lovely girlfriend Christmas dinner for three dear friends and my mom. Little dinner parties are so much more manageable than big Christmas open houses and I love decorating for Christmas…makes it much nicer to look at all the lights and pretties while I am hyper mailing. As of 9pm last night, I had 5 Etsy orders, 11 Ebay orders and 160 Amazon orders, for the weekend.
You are right Sharyn that some of the orders are fabric and patterns and those are quick and easy to ship, unless I need to cut the fabric. I don’t sell clothing. On Ebay I sell a mix of vintage, home decor and gift items. On Amazon I sell home decor and gift items. The way I keep up on shipping that much is to streamline the process and many of my Amazon sales are duplicate items that can quickly slip into a padded envelope, and I also invested in a label printer. I’ve streamlined it so I can ship 18-20 items an hour, but even going so quickly I still spend many hours shipping. Tis the season. Last night I stayed up to 2am and then got back up at 6am, in order to make sure I got my orders done. It’s craziness, but it only lasts a couple of weeks so I can handle it. And one upside to selling on Amazon is that you do have TWO business days to ship, if needed.
I did manage to get 19 items listed, which I wasn’t expecting to do.
Sorry you haven’t been feeling well Sharyn…sure hope you feel all better quickly.
Happy Birthday Vintage Treasure! Wishing you a wonderful year ahead!
Two little listings for me last week. Slammed with orders, which is a good thing. Woke up this morning to 137 orders to ship out today. Gulp. And more coming in, as I write this.
Have a great week everyone.
Wow…way to go Christine! I sure thought I would ace everyone with my 60 listings, but it wasn’t meant to be. Ha! Not sure what I’ll get accomplished this week, as the mass mailing has begun. I had over 60 orders to ship out this morning and the orders keep coming in. God bless cyber Monday!
Here’s hoping that everyone has great sales this week….Happy December!
Ack! I forgot to post yesterday and I had 36 listings! Such is life, so congrats VT on the win. 🙂
My brother is visiting from Colorado so I took him to the bins yesterday since he has never been. He sells primarily books and media on Ebay so I thought he would enjoy it and he did…finding a book that lists for $75 and another for $45. That guy has always been lucky. The scavenging gene runs strong in our family!
I also spent about 5 hours listing yesterday in the calm before the storm so I WILL be putting up a big number for this week-ha! Look out ladies!!!! I had a GREAT show Friday and Saturday and sold tons of vintage Christmas. I spent a lot of time in my garage Sunday…Amatino you have inspired me to do some purging as well. I used to do a lot of collage art but haven’t for years and I got rid of at least 20 boxes of art materials…some went to be donated and some landed in my recycle bin. Man, that felt good.
Sharyn and Amatino your dream of keeping your personal space separate from your work space sounds delightful and makes me wistful. I too have that dream, but it isn’t practical in this house, although there’s things I can and will do to make it better. Y’all are so inspiring.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of laughter and love.
I am back to feeling a-ok and last week was catch up time. Trying to not burn the candle at both ends AGAIN but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. 70 listings for me last week. It will be less for me this week as I have the Plucky Maiden show on Friday and Saturday. I’ll be happy to get 25-30 done.
Hope everyone has a great week…can you believe November is half over already? Eeeeek!
I ended up in urgent care last week after getting sicker instead of better. Antibiotics are now coursing through my veins and I am doing MUCH better. However, I lost two weeks in the process and that’s a hard realization this time of year. SO so much to do, and the clock is ticking. I did manage to get 21 listings done and plan to power through a whole bunch this week. I have a big show coming up in two weeks–the Plucky Maiden Holiday Fest and she gave us the PRIME space at the front of the show so we have to bring our A game and do a fantastic over the top display. No pressure there! Ha! So some of my time has to be devoted to getting ready for the show too. We flourish under this kind of pressure, right?
I did promise a recap of my fall show so here goes….it was fantastic. Many new customers, lots of raves on our displays and it was one the best shows in years. Farmhouse is still HUGE and we sold a TON of vintage Christmas, which we featured up at the front. I had a new artist up on the stage–Ramona Owen Designs. She does painted furniture and handpainted handsewn pillows and she was phenomenal. She’s been a Brookhaven customer for many years and has always loved the show so it was a great fit for both of us. Check her out on Instagram if you get a chance. I’ll post a few pictures of the show soon…in the meantime you can always see my live feed video on Facebook. Just look for Brookhaven Vintage Marketplace. I’m already starting to plan the spring show next April.
I hope everyone has a great week ahead…and stays healthy!!
Amatino,
So very sorry about your Gran. Sending you love.
Amatino and Vintage Treasures, thank so much for your well wishes. I especially loved being called your little chicken…made my heart swell. I am still recovering…at about 90% well now. Yesterday was the first day I felt really human. Hoping to finally sleep in my bed tonight, after almost two weeks of having to sleep in my chair.
I’ll talk about my show next week, I promise. I managed 15 listings last week but hope to have a gangbuster week this week. I looked at last years figures and noted that the most I listed in a week in the weeks from the end of my show to the end of the year was 19 items. I aim to do much better this year. I have so much vintage Christmas to list!
I am digging the November challenge and already have listed 9 Christmas items, out of the 15 last week.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Hello friends,
Show was great however I got the creeping coughing crud last Wednesday and it’s knocked me low. I’ve been crawling out of bed ( or more precisely the chair in my bedroom because I can’t sleep lying down right now) to do my mailings and right back again. I managed 5 listings and that was a huge push, just so I wouldn’t have another week with a zero. UGH. I’ll share about the show when I feel better. Guess I burned the candle at both ends a little too much this time around….but it was worth it. I think. Ask me in a week. I’m not even going to throw down a gauntlet, y’all….just too damn tired.
Totally in show mode now but did manage a rather grand picking adventure (twice, even) which I will say more about later….but in the meantime I got 24 listings done this week. The next two weeks will be zero for me.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead!
Jay, I sure wish I could. The problem is time. We poked around for over an hour and only made it through about a third of the stuff. We couldn’t even get to the costume area because there was too much piled up in front and we didn’t want to overstep. There’s old glass front cases full of stuff. There’s old wood shelves behind the cases full of stuff. It’s a commitment to really dig in deep. Charlie found 3 old metal soda signs that he paid 3 bucks each for. The two vintage Xmas items I paid $3 for and will get at least $25 each on Ebay. I also bought an old wire laundry cart for five bucks that I will take to my show and ask $125. But she wanted $3 a yard for the fabric. I paid a dollar a bolt when the son took over. It’s a crazy good picking opportunity, especially if one could go in and just buy everything. But it would take time to box it and haul it and store it.
I load 2 26-ft trucks for the show on Tuesday, and after that I am over at the show from 9am to 8pm, every single day, until the 21st. And I have a long to-do list between now and Tuesday. It just isn’t possible. Trust me, it kills me that I can’t. This is an incredibly rare opportunity. I hope someone can go over and help her out.
Amatino…so sorry to hear about your woes. Sending you healing thoughts.
In show mode now. Managed 15 listings last week. It will probably be even less this week and next week is show set up so going into a dry spell now.
Happy Fall, y’all.
I missed the Monday posting somehow, the day got away from me. Ack. Things are accelerating on the show front but I still did manage to do 56 listings last week, but it shouldn’t count since I missed the day. Charlie and I did manage a fantastic bit of scavenging today while on the way to drop off packages at the Post Office. A local bakery that had been in business for 93 years had shut down and they were doing demo on the building to convert it to a print shop. Out front they had a dumpster and in front of the dumpster with a sign that said FREE…..
The NINE FOOT LONG BAKERY SIGN THAT HAD BEEN UP ON THE BUILDING.
I couldn’t believe it! That man is a BEAST for scavenging. Good thing we had a minivan, and it barely fit. Can’t wait to feature it at the show! (and I’m putting a hefty price on it too…it’s a piece of local history and I can’t believe they just threw it away!)
Hope everyone has a great week….I won’t be getting much listing done for the next 4 weeks…so have at it!
Getting my numbers in and then it’s back to work. I have two weeks left until October and my show madness.Last year I think I posted less than 10 items the entire month of October. I hope to do slightly better this year but there’s still going to be at least two, maybe three weeks with no listings at all.
I listed 75 items this week.
Here’s hoping everyone had a better week last week….and a great week ahead.
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