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15 for me last week. I was hoping for more but I had a lot of other things going on. I don’t think life is going to slow down anytime soon.
35 listings for me last week. Very mindful of how fast this summer is going and trying to get on top of things….if possible. Life seems to throw curveballs when I say things like this so I hope I didn’t jinx myself!
Christine, sorry about getting covid, hope your symptoms are mild and quickly over.
25 listings for me last week. I didn’t do anything towards my challenge. I was just happy to hit my goal!
28 listings for me last week. Boy July flew by in a flash. Hoping for a very productive August ahead.
I’m doing a wonderful outdoor show the end of the month and starting to prep for it. I had been doing it for many years and then they couldn’t have it because of the pandemic, so it will be the first time since 2019 and I am very excited. True collectors come to this event….they are there with flashlights at 5am while we are setting up! I always sell great higher ticket items and the really quirky stuff. It’s a WHOLE lot of fun, even though we have to leave at 4am to drive there! It’s in Oregon City, downtown, and they shut down Main Street for the event so our booths are on the street.
Hope everyone has a great week…good luck with the move VT, hope it is easier than ours!
Everyone is having a busy summer, it looks like, myself included. Good luck with your move VT, I feel your pain! Although we are STILL unpacking boxes, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We have the biggest yard I’ve ever had, with much to do there, as well. I planted over 40 bulbs and got the gazebo staged and looking lovely, so now all we need is to find a garden bench and that area will be set. There’s some painting to be done inside the house, before certain areas can be set up. The previous owner used charcoal gray as an accent point in several areas and it’s too dark for us, so we’re going to paint a dusty aqua/teal instead.
My brother came for a week last week, from Colorado, to help with the unpacking and he and I also spent several days over at my dad’s house. He’s 89 and looking to move into assisted living so it’s time to start helping him unload his stuff. This is both good and bad. He’s a packrat and he also had a lucrative hobby in the 90s selling vintage magazines, which he kept stored in his bomb shelter. You read that right. That tells you the age of his house. My brother also sells on Ebay and he’s a fantastic scavenger and he kept digging out things from very obscure places. He found some boxes of old coins, a very racy Marilyn Monroe tray, and lots of other things. We also helped them get things out of the attic and I scored over a dozen boxes of very old mason jars. We found a suitcase that was my grandpa’s, and it must have been from when his desk was cleaned out because it was filled with a strange variety of things, like a copious amount of chapsticks and loose unused bandaids, but also some great belt buckles with turquoise, and some unusual jewelry and ephemera. We even found valentines that my dad received in the 1940s! It was really fun, but truly the last thing I needed was to bring home yet more stuff to list, as my death pile is EPIC. Impossible to resist though. My brother mailed four boxes home and also did an additional carry-on bag, so he got lots of great stuff too.
I am pleased to announce 40 listings for last week. The drought is over! Hopefully to stay!
Hello…I’m finally back. It was a BRUTAL move and we are still unpacking…it’s going to be weeks more before we get everything shipshape. Top of the order was to get my online biz set up, since I had to turn my shops off for more than two weeks. The upside is that I have the most fabulous shop for my inventory and it’s two-thirds organized…a place for everything and everything in its place. I’m very excited about it. Hours and hours of work went into it and hours more before it is done but it will be well worth it.
5 listings last week, and zero for all the weeks I didn’t report in. Hoping to get back to listing regularly again…..as things calm down. Fingers crossed!
Amatino, your bathroom is absolutely gorgeous! I love everything you did!
31 listings for me last week. I almost finished the box of easy to list items. This week is the big move though, so I will be slammed with other things.
23 listings for me last week. While packing I ran across a box of very easy to list stuff, so I might have decent numbers this week too.
Julie so truly sorry to hear about your dad. It sounds like you were exactly where you were needed and what a gift you gave to your mom and all those cats. Sending hugs from Oregon.
I had 10 listings this week. I’m trying to list at least a little, even though there is so much to do.
1 single solitary listing for me last week. It’s all about packing and purging. Packing, packing some more, and did I mention packing?
18 listings for the week.
Amatino, can you please change my weekly goal to 25 listings? It is much more realistic for the year, considering this summer will be all about the BIG move, and then into the busy Fall and Christmas season.
The good news is that we found a wonderful house, complete with large shop where I can store my inventory. It’s going to take months to get it set up properly and organized and so forth. I’ve been purging like crazy and have donated three minivan loads so far, but there’s still going to be a ton to move.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead!
Whew Sharyn! Way to throw down the gauntlet! Makes me wish I COULD take on your challenge…but there’s always next year, right?
You have no idea how much I needed to read what you wrote today about the monthly challenges. I too find them inspiring, even though I haven’t accomplished most of the ones so far. I think it’s a brilliant idea to break them into manageable bites. For example, I may not have listed 25 pieces of vintage jewelry, as intended, but what I did accomplish was to pull them from storage, where they had been languishing for TOO long, and get them sorted. I was able to price about 40 pieces and put them into my glass case at the antique mall, and that’s a win for me. I’m going to view it differently from here on out.
On a personal note, I just found out that I have to move, after 10 years in the same house. It’s a very daunting prospect, on many levels. After my initial shock, I am choosing to view it as an adventure, and a fresh start. When it starts feeling overwhelming….I try to break the whole process into manageable bites. How does a mouse eat an elephant? (or an object the size of an elephant?)
One bite at a time.
Thanks, Sharyn.
