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Happy birthday Amatino!
17 listings for me and 2.7 skittles.
This is my last week to put up any kind of decent numbers, as Brookhaven starts next week.
26 listings for me and 3 skittles.
My version of the MM challenge is my carport and it’s coming along nicely. It should be in great shape by the end of the month. Considering that it’s a spacious 3-car carport and it was packed, it’s a big deal to get it emptied.
We did some scavenging on the Oregon coast this weekend, and our best finds were a vintage kitchen table for $5 and an old large Igloo cooler, also for $5. Plus some other bits and pieces and a large piece of art we need to research. It’s a bit early in the year for garage sales weather-wise so we were very happy with our finds.
14 listings for me and 5 skittles. Not bad considering I spent 3 days at my dad’s beach house.
Amatino, the spring show is April 19-22. It’s coming up really fast!
Hope all is well Sharyn.
20 listings for me and 8 skittles.
Drove a van load to the Grange for the spring show, so the carport is getting emptied slowly but surely.
My sales have been scary bad as well….hope it’s just a temporary thing.
12 listings for the week and 3 skittles.
I’m doing my own version of the March madness. Here’s my confession…… We have a very large carport and since last fall items keep getting dumped in it and while I have worked to get rid of piles they never seem to go quite away. My goal this month is to have the carport completely cleared. We did quite a bit of work on it last weekend and it’s about half gone already…can’t wait for it to be completely finished. We all have our own embarrassing piles Amatino and my neighbors get to see mine…yikes!
17 listings for me and 7 skittles. Amatino, can you please check that my 10 skittles from the previous week were posted…thanks!
Sharyn, thanks for showing us your lovely bag, and so nice to see your face! Well done, Amatino on a beautiful prize!
Julie, I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your dog. What a terrible shock that must have been. Sending you a hug and sympathetic thoughts.
We’ve had snowmageddon here so I haven’t left the house much! You would think that would mean more listings for me, but I concentrated on pricing for my 2 antique mall spaces and my upcoming spring show…it was a big skittle that needed doing.
15 listings for the week and 10 skittles. I am actually even more pleased about the skittles than the listings…feels good to be crossing those items off my list, especially since my goal was 5 a week.
13 listings for me last week, but I crossed a really big skittle off my list, so that is thrilling in and of itself. 5 skittles in all. However, I torked my back on that large skittle, so it’s not entirely a win.
Thanks for the Folex cleaning idea…I am excited to try it!
Julie, please don’t be too hard on yourself. This is my full time job too, and look at how many listings I’ve been able to accomplish lately. More power to the people that claim to list 30-50 items every day…but I am skeptical. My guess is that they list a certain category that’s quick to list, all the same kind of thing, and perhaps they throw up a stock photo, or a single photo. We’ve all seen those kind of simple listings. Speaking for us elves, my feeling is that we are more thoughtful and careful with our listings, and thus take more time.
When you think about listing one item, think about all that goes into it. First sourcing, then researching, cleaning , photographing and listing, then properly storing (hopefully.) Plus the time in shipping once it sells. I spend a couple of hours a day at least, on the shipping part of it. We also sell a wider variety of items, each with it’s own unique research and challenges.
If I could get 40-50 listings up a week, I would be thrilled! So yes, Julie, you are an icon!
12 listings for me and 3 skittles. Amatino—I am going to reduce my weekly goal to 15 listings, as I think 25 is too ambitious for me this year, with everything that’s going on with my parents. I am planning on accomplishing 3-5 skittles a week…all things I keep putting off doing.
Julie you are my icon. You manage to get so much done, and I know you have challenges in your life too. I also have a pile of vintage Barbie clothes somewhere in my DP. Who knows where. What is your best solution for getting stains out?
I also have Barbie clothes my mom made for me, many years ago. I hung onto them in the hopes of passing them onto a daughter or grand-daughter, but didn’t end up with either. Do vintage hand-made Barbie clothes sell?
Here’s hoping everyone has a good week.
Thank you everyone for your kind words last week. Sharyn, you are SO right. Family is everything.
I’ve been thinking a lot about something I read recently. It’s about giving yourself grace, because of the challenges in your current life. Instead of thinking….I am not doing my best….. think instead …..I am doing my best, given the circumstances.
My best right now isn’t what my best would have been a year or two ago. And I am trying to be okay with that. When I think about the time I am giving right now to both my parents (and gladly,) there’s no way to have the normal expectations. Add to that I still have a great deal of fatigue from the double dose of Covid in Nov/Dec. I am exhausted after very simple things that would have been a breeze six months ago.
It’s hard because my sales are way down, because I am not listing. And I am very competitive so kills me to confess little or no listings. Ha! On the other hand, I did accomplish several skittles last week, including the very large skittle of clearing out a storage unit completely, that had been dumped into at the beginning of the pandemic. That felt VERY good. It’s a win, in my book.
All this to say, no listings last week. I’ve already done a few for this week…so yay!
Hope everyone has a good week ahead, and thanks again.
Hello y’all, sorry for being out of touch. I have SO much on my plate, including hand-holding my 89-year-old dad (who has hearing and vision problems) through a complicated divorce. It’s really something. I have been doing a little bit of listing, but other things took preference. Truly hoping to get back to a steady listing schedule.
I really love the skittles idea and hope to implement it this week. Yet another great idea from Amatino!
I haven’t posted numbers for 3 weeks, but please put me down for 6 listings two weeks ago, 15 listings a week ago, and 5 listings for last week. Sorry for the extra work.
Here’s hoping everyone has a great week ahead.
Zero listings for me on the last week of the year, but for the very best of reasons….we had a lovely family reunion all week and my time was spent with family.
