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Thanks VL. It’s great that your fabric haul is selling already! I just sold some fabric myself that had been in my DPs for a long time, so I’m feeling good about that.
Unfortunately me saying “I already have a good listing habit” last week completely jinxed me as far as listing and I did zero listings last week. Sigh.
At this point I’m going to have to have no eBay weekly goals for the time being. On top of my husband’s health issue I now also have a sick cat so I’m walking every day to manage my stress. But I’m spending hours every day walking. So if I get any eBay listings up that’ll be wonderful but I’m not going to set any goals for myself as I can’t handle any more stress. I’m now considering myself on Family Medical Leave.
Wishing everyone a healthy and productive week!
I have a pretty good listing habit, but I did want to create a habit in which I list 10 DP items every week and hopefully two per day M – F. Unfortunately life gets in the way of my best intentions sometimes. We leave home for my husband’s health treatments at 6am and the treatments last all day, so I had to create work arounds for the days I can’t be home to list.
Figuring out how to continue to list when circumstances don’t let me list every day is the name of the game for me. I can usually meet my goals, but not always in the way I intend to – I want to list every day but sometimes it’s just not possible.
Christine, I’m right there with you – no worries! Monday and Tuesday I had other things I had to do and today will be a zero listing day for me as well. Hoping to make up for my misses later this week.
Oh my goodness VL – 240 pieces of fabric! Did you find the fabric at a quilter estate sale? I like to buy fabric but I don’t love to list it so there’s quite a few fabrics in my DPs. However the DP fabrics I’ve already listed are selling. You’ve done a great job with getting so many listings up last week!!!
I listed 21 items last week, only 6 were DP. I’ve given up on my quest to list 25 DP items each week. It’s just been too much for me with everything else that’s been going on with my husband’s health treatments. In order not to abandon reducing my DPs all together I’ve decided to make my goal 10 DP items listed each week. Fingers crossed!
I hope everyone has a great week!
Thanks for the clarification Christine!
I think I’m going to have DP listing as my goal. I’d already decided to abandon my 25 DP listings a week goal – which will show in my listing numbers this week.
There’s a lot going on with my husband’s health treatment lately and time involved in that is making 25 DP listings a week too much for me to accomplish. But I still want to work on some amount of DP listings each week until I get through them all. So I’ll be listing two DP items every weekday for my goal.
Thanks for the idea!
Hey Christine – I’m in! I was just thinking I’d love to have a listing buddy. Would the starting date for this challenge be next Monday, 7/28?
32 new listings for me last week – 25 were from my DPs. I’m still working my way through my DP boxes, sometimes it seems like I’ll never get to the bottom of them – lol!
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
35 new listings for me last week. 25 were DP, 10 were from a new haul after I broke my no thrifting fast. I did manage two months with zero thrifting and I pretty much made it to having only DP items left to list. I’d like to do one more no-thrifting month this summer, fingers crossed!
Wishing everyone a great week!
25 new listings for me last week. 22 were from my DPs.
Thinking of you Amatino after the Texas flooding, sending best wishes.
I managed 25 new listings. At least 20 were DP items so hurrah for that! I’m working hard on my DPs and I hope to list 25 items per week for the next 3 weeks. I’m already seeing my DPs shrinking and I think 100 listings in a month will make a big difference while I’m still not acquiring any additional inventory. July 5th will be two months since I’ve bought anything!
VL: When my hubs and I went to France I didn’t see any second hand stores, but the flea markets were amazing. I’m sure there must be second hand stores there as well but since my hubs doesn’t enjoy thrifting we didn’t make the time to search out any thrift stores there.
Oh, Christine – I didn’t mean to make you feel bad! Probably 20 bankers boxes is a hopeful underestimate for me, I keep finding more items hidden away…
Thanks VL for the encouragement! Listing just DPs isn’t nearly as enjoyable as listing my more recently acquired niche items. But like you said: We got this!
20 new listings for me last week. 12 were from my DPs. I keep thinking I’ll get to the end of items I purchased in 2025 and I’ll be only listing DP items, but not yet! Hoping to get there soon.
ChristineR: Unfortunately barely a dent has been made so far – lol! I’m thinking for me it may become a no shopping for inventory for this entire summer situation. Which actually works out okay since due to my hubs medical treatment there are times when we’re in a lockdown type lifestyle. I can’t shop then anyway.
How did this happen? Well, I used to volunteer years ago at a thrift store that supported a pet shelter and I bought SO MANY THINGS to sell in the years I volunteered there. The amount of items coming in got away from me, I could never have listed everything I was buying at the pace I was bringing those items home. But we had a huge house back then and it didn’t look like as much as it was. My guess is that I still have at least 20 bankers boxes of unlisted items.
20 new listings for me last week. 15 came from my death piles. I’m finally getting close to not having anything to list except DP items – I haven’t purchased any inventory in 6 weeks now. Even though it takes me more time to list DP items I’m really happy to be whittling down the piles.
Wishing everyone a great week!
