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Man, everyone is doing well with listing except me! Gah! Zero for me again, but I am determined that it will be my last zero week for this year.
The Holiday Faire fundraiser was really fun and went very well. Now it’s back to concentrating on my online sales, which have picked up briskly. I had 89 orders to ship out this morning. 3 Etsy, 14 Ebay, and 72 Amazon. I hope everyone is seeing better sales too.
I have friends who do very well picking at Goodwill and find really cute stuff and a fair amount of it too, but I think they go several times a week. If I have any time for picking, I generally stick to the bins this time of year and am generally happy with my haul most times. They did raise the prices at the bins recently, especially the books, so we are now a bit pickier about what we buy. Still love our bins, and have been jonesing about them. I need my fix!
I’m finally back! Amatino please put me down for zeroes for all the weeks I didn’t check in. And please put me down for 22 listings for last week.
I’ve been super busy….with my Brookhaven show and a fundraiser show for the Grange this coming weekend…I’m running the dang thing so I have been wearing many hats lately. Brookhaven was a really great show from start to end…even having a crucial register die 12 hours before the show opened wasn’t enough to daunt us. It was an incredible amount of work, but really REALLY fun. Now I am winding down things by doing the bookkeeping part.
Ebay has been slower for me as well, not dead but certainly slow, but Amazon keeps humming along nicely and Etsy isn’t too shabby, so who knows?
Happy Halloween!
Sorry Amatino that Covid caught up to you….hopefully you get better fast. Good luck Julie on your upcoming procedure….sending good wishes for quick recovery.
6 listings for me last week. Sales have taken off for me so shipping is taking more of my time. It’s a good problem to have! We start set up of Brookhaven early next week so the next 3 weeks I won’t do much if any listing.
Happy October everyone!
You are a rock star Sharyn! I think that’s the biggest number ever posted in all these years! Congrats! If I lived closer I’d be bidding on your auction…looks great.
10 listings for me. Just WAY too much else going on. Nothing bad, just busy busy busy.
15 listings for me, but I am also planning to hit it hard this week. It’s only 3 weeks until Brookhaven and the busy 4th quarter so I want to have a couple of really good listing weeks before then.
Congrats Christine! I’m only 41 away from 900 myself…maybe that should be a goal for me too.
15 listings for me last week and I am glad to have hit my goal for once. The street fair was a meh, too many lookie lou’s, and not enough vintage buyers. Lesson learned…..only do shows that are focused on vintage. It’s too much dang work to have just mediocre sales. Onward!
2 listings for me last week. Listings have been on a very low flame while I spend time on other projects that will be fabulous to be done before the 4th quarter. The biggest has been organizing the inventory storage room. We brought in 5 large shelves which should really help. It’s a round tuit project long overdue and I’m glad to finally be getting it done.
Hope everyone had a good Labor Day….happy September !
2 listings for me last week.
It was a great show and sold some higher ticket items, including a vintage brass ship’s clock for a sweet $495. Packing up in 90 degree heat was no fun though. Thankfully much less to take home!
44 listings for the week. Not sure about this coming week since I have my biggest show of the summer on Sunday and I have a lot of prepping to do.
Zero for me again, but for the best possible reason….a road trip down to Sacramento to visit my bestie and her husband, plus a grand shopping trip to the Sacramento Antique Faire. Over 300 booths to peruse and boy did we have fun. We brought a large wagon to pull with us as we shopped and we filled it full three times! We called it quits after 5 and a half hours…there was still one more row to go, but it was really hot and we were tired.
We also went to the Sacramento bins and they were meh. We did find a few cool things and I dig books for fifteen cents, but nothing spectacular and they are FILTHY and disorganized. We’re really spoiled by the bins in the Portland area.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead!
Zero listings going on for me…..lots of last minute stuff with my dad’s divorce, plus I had minor foot surgery. This week will be equally busy, plus a short road trip so don’t think I’ll get many done.
Good luck with the grandson visit Amatino…that’s exciting. It’s sure to be fun for you.
Congrats Julie…that’s a HUGE number!
24 listings for last week. Not bad considering I had a 20-yr-old kid to entertain. Congrats on the epic picking Julie! It’s a huge amount of fun to find such great things. I had some fun picking last weekend, but nothing like your haul. However, I did find something I am keeping….a vintage teal green kid cash register, in the original box, no less. I was pretty excited about it. It was at the bins so I was really lucky to be able to grab it. Somebody must have been getting rid of their collection because there were three kid cash registers, but that was the cool one. I have a collection of them.
Julie I sure hope you get some resolution for your health issue. It doesn’t sound like fun at all! Sending you healing vibes.
VT, where did you go on the Oregon coast? I am glad you had such a great time!
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
19 listings for the week. Not bad, considering everything else going on. My nephew from Colorado is coming to stay with us this week so there will be lots of family stuff happening. And I am still working on the dang carport!
VT…. 5 vintage patterns for a dollar is still pretty great!
For those vacationing this week…have a great time! And Julie I hope you are on the mend.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
15 listings last week. It was a very busy picking week, with a lucrative trip to the bins and lots of yard and estate sales. We went to one Saturday morning and scored a 1930s cash register for $30 that will easily sell for $295. That very same sale had a free day yesterday and we went back and filled the whole back of the van up with vintage patterns and vintage lace.
I’m not sure how much listing I will get done this week. We’re doing a vintage show this weekend, with set up on Friday and sales Saturday and Sunday. Fingers crossed it’s a good one for us.
