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Happy June, y’all. I am excited about this month’s challenge. I’m going to back off fabric (to a point) and work on my death piles, which is long overdue. I sold 3 items in total from the May challenge, all in the first week. It was an interesting experiment. I listed 60 items last week.
Amatino, so sorry for your illness woes! I truly hope that by today you have started feeling better. You had major surgery and that’s nothing to sneeze at (literally), so expecting to be up and about so quickly was probably overly optimistic. I sure wish you could have taken pain meds though. There’s times when drugs are a very good thing. The silver lining is that you don’t have to wean yourself back OFF the drugs as that can be an ordeal in itself.
If it makes you feel any better, my younger brother had that same surgery when he was in his 30s and running marathons and in the best shape of his life and it still kicked his rump. It’s hard realizing that we’re not Wonder Woman!
Take care…I have great faith you’ll be back to yourself soon.
69 listings for me. Sales have slowed down so I have more time for other things. I haven’t sold anything more on the auction challenge, so still at 3 sales.
I’m both excited and apprehensive about the challenge for next month. I started poking around in the first death pile and ye gads I have a lot of stuff…cool stuff for the most part, but gulp, a lot. So it’s a good challenge for me. I get too caught up in listing the easy stuff like fabric, when I have all these cool vintage treasures waiting for a new home.
I know we talked about Christmas in July for the July challenge and I am excited about that too. And I have another challenge to suggest, when we need another.
Have a great week everyone.
45 listings for me last week. Sorry for the late posting but I had lots of distractions yesterday. I haven’t sold anything more from the auction challenge so I still have 3 sold and 7 going this week.
I’m excited about the June challenge and am setting my own personal goal. I have, ahem, four areas in my home, garage and storage that are death piles. No excuses, just the fact that I like to scavenge MUCH more than I like to list. So my personal goal for June is to list a box from each of my four areas. It will put a very small dent in them, but a dent is a dent. I very much like the idea of the playing field being even so everyone gets a chance at points, so I will be happy to get one entry for the month, once I get my first box done. I think we all do a great job at cheerleading each other when we achieve our own goals and projects, and that’s reward enough for me.
Although I do see a chance to win a week here and there, now that Libby is running out of consignment items to list. (evil grin)
45 listings for me this week. I sold 3 items from the May challenge auction and they were the three I thought most likely to sell so it will be fascinating to see what happens with the other seven. I rarely do auctions so it’s an interesting venture. Glad to be getting rid of them, so thanks Sharyn for the challenge! I like the death pile box challenge suggestion for June. Choose a random box and have to list every single item, even when it’s annoying? Sounds like exactly the nudge I need!
Amatino, so happy your cabin is working so splendidly for you. Your listing numbers are on the rise! Go you! Actually lots of higher numbers this week. Go, everyone! 🙂
Crazy busy with Mother’s Day orders, so have to be brief.
34 listings for me and I also listed the 10 items for the May Challenge. Can’t wait to see what happens!
Have a great week everyone!
One more gold item for me so my total for the April GOLD challenge is 20 gold items.
My total for the April GOLD challenge should be 19. I have a couple more lined up to do by Thursday so I will let you know Amatino what my final April total is by Thursday evening. 🙂
Sharyn you made me laugh! So funny.
I listed 41 items this week in total. Happy to make my goal after I did so little last week.
Thanks to the nudge from Mr T and Amatino I dug around in my fabric stash and listed 13 gold-color items. 🙂
I listed 13 items this week. No gold items, but have some lined up. Spent yesterday re-organizing my storage where I keep a lot of my Amazon inventory. It was greatly needed because Amazon is still going nuts. Amazon Prime is still stating ship dates up to a month out so those of us who ship to customers directly are making hay while the sun shines. I think the incentive checks starting to arrive last week helped sales too. All in all one of the craziest weeks in the history of all the years I have been selling online. I am very grateful for this opportunity and know just how fortunate I am!
ChristineR List that fabric! You won’t be sorry. Seriously. 🙂
I love the idea of focusing on the positive…thanks VT! I’ve already mentioned that my sales have been skyrocketing. I’ve never sold this much fabric so fast. People are buying 8,10.12 pieces at a time. I had a record day yesterday…selling 48 pieces! I really like that I am contributing in a small way to people keeping sane during this crisis. I sent a package today to a woman in NYC who thanked me for helping her craft and stay in good spirits. If you think about it, all of our packages arriving give such an uplift to people and possibly be one of the highlights of their day. Fun mail lifts our spirits.
Do you know the term DING DONG DITCH? We used to play this game when we were kids. You basically ring someone’s doorbell and then run and hide in the bushes, giggling hysterically. My BF and I did our own version on Saturday. We decided to play Easter bunny and leave gifts at the doors of three close friends….and then ringing the doorbell and running away. I gathered items from my stash (thank you death pile!) and put them in a pretty gift bag with some pretty faux flowers I had found at the bins and had planned to take to my show. Charlie had found a 4 ft tall paper mache rabbit that he’d also planned to take to the show so the rabbit ended up at the door of the friend we thought would like it most. We put the presents at each door, rang the doorbell, and then ran back to our car, laughing like little kids. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!
I too am enjoying the light traffic, although it’s almost spooky at times and reminds me of the cult movie Night of the Comet. We’ve had glorious weather and everything is blooming. We had two bee swarms in our front yard this week.
There’s always SO much to be grateful for.
52 listings for me, including 3 gold items. All fabric right now, as it’s selling faster than I can list it.
Amazon blew up for me this past week, with sales at Christmas levels. Etsy is blowing out fabric at record levels. I had several nice feedback notes stating that the fabric they bought from me was going to be made into masks and surgical caps. It’s crazy times we are living in, but I am doubly grateful for the sales.
hope everyone has a safe and good week ahead.
Thanks Amatino.
LittleBlueHouse let me add my warm wishes to you. I truly understand feeling like one isn’t handling this whole ordeal well. I’m trying to be gentle with myself…easier said than done some days. The anxiety can be overwhelming so I have found that for me, trying to only think about a month at a time. I’m trying to not look too far ahead. Right now I’m thinking about April. If a month is too much try a week at a time. I keep a sign on my desk ~ THIS TOO SHALL PASS and it gives me comfort. Hang in there-you got this.
This was a bittersweet week for me. It was the week of my cancelled spring show. Someone called me on Wednesday and asked if my event was still going on. I wanted to ask them if they live under a rock, but I refrained. Ugh.
However. Silver lining is that I would have normally closed all of my online shops this week and they have been going like gangbusters. Fabric, especially. I sold 33 pieces of fabric yesterday(Saturday). 33! I think that’s a record for my shop. Those are all sales I wouldn’t have gotten normally. And I went to town listing fabric….65 listings for me, and 3 were gold. More gold to come this month…definitely a fun challenge. And my listings would normally have been zero for the week, so there’s that.
I don’t know how long this fabric wave is going to last but I’m up on my surfboard riding it. Cowabunga!
Amatino, I love it! Ha! Great April challenge. And five minutes ago, right before you posted I just listed a piece of gold fabric. So I am already on the board with one! I see big numbers ahead (grin)
I went back and checked my notes and I truly had 7 Halloween items in March. So you and I tied for 2nd.
Challenge accepted! Woot!
