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Congrats Christine! We did our second Niknax auction yesterday and sold 6 items, which is encouraging. I’m told it takes a little time to build up a following, so we’re hoping that our weekly auctions keep building.
Liz…that cake sound delicious!
VT… last week my husband went through his listed books on his shelves and discovered that at least 20 weren’t listed anymore. There’s certainly wonky stuff with ebay for sure.
19 listings for me. But more importantly, we completely organized the carport. Last year when I was so sick for several months things kept getting dumped in there until it was a mess. So Saturday we were fortunate to have a nice sunny day and we pulled everything out to the driveway…..sorting it as we went, set aside several boxes for donation, and put it back in, nice and neat and very very organized. It was a beast of a job, but very satisfying and now we can process it much more quickly. Whew.
Hi Liz! Nice to hear from you. I’m impressed by 63 listings and I so hear you about your garage….for me it’s my carport.
I join VT in mentioning how grateful I am for our little community. It definitely spurs me on and I too appreciate the kindness shown by everyone.
And Liz? Most importantly…what kind of cake?
13 listings last week. A bit less than I hoped but worked on other things instead.
Yay! Thank you Sharyn and Ryanne. You saved my bacon! I thought I had switched it everywhere….but that one link did the trick!
So simple!
25 listings for the week.
We had fairly serious snow Thursday going into Friday so it put a damper on the weekend and sales were mediocre at the show…still was fun to do though.
Welcome back JR!
We’re getting ready for a vintage show this weekend. It’s a show we’ve done before in downtown Portland and it was not well attended but the promoters are going back to where they used to have the show and where their customer base is, so fingers crossed that people show up.
We’ve signed up to do Live Auction shows on NikNax and are pretty excited about it. We’ll get our first one going weekend after next, and feature vintage books. Other sellers seem to do well on there so we’ll see what happens!
Christine I think you’d do really well on Etsy, especially if you tie in your instagram. You have a great curated style that I think would be very popular.
40 listings for me this week. Trying to bank higher numbers so when I have zero weeks I still stay on track.
Amatino…sending you many healing thoughts. Know that when you aren’t able to post, you are still in our thoughts….always.
I really appreciate our little community here…I agree Sharyn. It’s important to me to check in once a week (or so) and also hear how everyone else is doing.
Just putting it out there that other people are always welcome to chime in. Now that it’s not a contest anymore, there’s much less pressure and please feel free to join in. Listing can be a lonely business, so it helps to chat about it!
Sorry to hear about your family medical crisis VT….sending you good wishes.
47 items listed last week! I really hunkered down and went to town.
Thanks VT! I hope you got your purses listed!
I am trying to get past my very severe mental block of not wanting to list things that are more laborious to list. It’s a real challenge for me. For example, I have all this very cool vintage fabric to list and it sells for good money but it takes longer because I have to research it thoroughly. So I tend to set it aside and list fabric that’s super fast and easy. I have many categories like this. But this year I am trying to overcome that block and get listed lots of DP items that will make me money.
I miss you Amatino!
34 listings this past week. I split my time between new and DP about evenly.
I’ve been staying away from the bins with the hope to get caught up on all my recent finds and making good progress, so maybe another picking adventure in the near future.
15 listings for me last week and another five ready to go…they just need pictures. I spent a a lot of time organizing an area of my DP, with the hope to get a lot processed this coming week.
25 listings for me last week. 5 were DP.
Christine…you okay? I’m worried about our fearless leader too.
VT hope you have an amazing vacation!
I listed 40 items and 11 were DP. Wanted to hit the ground running in the new year!
I’m going back to my old goal of 25 listings a week, or 5 a day 5 days a week. As long as there aren’t as many bumps in the road this year (knock wood) it should be doable, as I have done it in previous years.
Christine, congrats on the new doggie! Such a sweet face.
If you ever manage to make it our way you have an open invitation to do a day of picking/scavenging with us. We’ll take you to the infamous bins as well as our favorite picking spots. All y’all are welcome!
The Oregon coast is less than an hour and a half drive from Portland, and you can visit Tillamook (and the must-see cheese factory) as well as Cannon Beach and Seaside in a day trip. Another good day trip is a drive up the Gorge to Hood River and do the fruit loop.
Our goal is to do a picking trip this summer to Colorado. My brother and his wife bought an antique mall in Florence and we are very excited to check it out, and pick along the way.
5 listings for me last week. Not a huge amount, but nice to be able to post something. All were DP items. I’ve also been purging DP items and took a load to donate last week.
Thank you everyone for your kind words. It means a lot. A lot.
We went to Seaside last weekend as a reward for all the hard work in the Christmas season. While it was wet and windy, it still felt great to get away and the views are still lovely, no matter the weather. We poked around Cannon Beach and drove to Astoria for famous fish and chips sold out of the hull of a boat. We also stopped at the bins (hey it was on the way!) and had great luck, including finding a large batch of early 19th century boy scout novels, very rare. All in all, a lovely time and much needed.
Wishing you all a very happy New Years and best of luck 2025 being a good year for us all.
