Where did Half a Year Go?

 The continuing saga of the Reselling Life

My inventory has taken over my life, my house, my sanity. I have two storage units and my garage, an Ebay "room" in the house, and he back family room is totally over run. My sales are just okay. I did fantastic with the booth in the local Peddler Antique Mall the first three months nearing 1000$ in sales. This month as it nears a close, I've made 75$. What a let down.

I don't think I've done anything wrong, maybe I just need to rearrange the booth. Take out a few things and put some newer stuff in. Remove that back table and put in a library table. That will make it easier to access the wall above it and also, for people to remove the pictures.

And, because I was doing so well in the back of the mall, I thought I needed a 2nd booth in the front area and after a month of hounding the front desk, I got it. I take possession of it on Monday and I thing I am going to go in a different direction and fill it full of clothes, jewelry bags, pictures and a section dedicated to clear glass. 

Where did March Go?

 

Two Sister Booth at the Peddler Mall. Its a work in Progress. I have been moving things around, adding furniture, adding inventory. Not much has sold. I have made rent last month (I began this new adventure in early March) and already this month. I am about 350$ in the black with two weekends to go. 

Not Bad! Nor Bad at all!

 Despite having the flu and then being sick with a nagging hurtful cough for three + weeks I still did okay for the month of February. I did not list many items at all. I did delete and relist. I think that kept me in the ball game. I sold approximately 38 items and about 1800$ in sales. I only spent a little over 400$ on inventory and opened a booth at the LOCAL peddler mall.

This I picked up at an Estate Sale on Saturday and it sold with in a few days. Tuesday I believe.

This purse I have had since this summer. I am hesitant to sell purses, But I picked up several at a 75% off day at an estate sale. They were high dollar and the only way I could afford them was at 75% off. The more expensive ones were already gone but a few goodies remained.

Got this little goodie at a live auction. It has not sold yet, a long tail, but I should do very well with it as no one else was interested.

it just got better

Unable to access my photos for months and months made me lose my appetite for posting. Suddenly they have appeared again!  

My new years resolution for 2025 is to buy judicially. I have a garage full of stuff and two storage units. Most of it needs to be listed. So, I am cutting back on purchasing until I have stabilized.

I have spent 52$ so far this year. I also have the flu or covid, I don't know. I know I feel better then I over exert and crash.

So I traveled to Madison to one of my fav on line auction houses and got the following!

The weather has been horrendous. i will never complain about 90 degree weather again until its 90 degrees again. Its wet and muddy and I am recovering from the flu so its not so smart to get out. 

I have resumed listing as being ill has made it impossible to take much interest in anything.

So far this is what I have up for February

 

Pretty but stained that I worked on with a tide stick that just made it worse. I am hesitant to wash them because I think I will ruin the 3-D effect of the flowers.

  Death Pile stock.

Scary Clown I got on an online auction for 2$

Irish linens from same auction. Got a lot of linens and so far have only listed this pastel group of vintage linens.

That about all I have now.

What sold? later

Long Time No Write

 I hate Google.

I can't upload any of my photos unless I give them more blood money. As if they don't make enough from their advertisers. I sympathize with the young man who shot the CEO - corporate greed over services is rampant. Our country is on the verge of being run by billionaires and probably as corrupt as it has even been. The idiots (from sea to shining sea) who voted this vile excuse of a human being will suffer the consequences and the rest of us will endure. 

Anyway, I have continued to run my Ebay store, which is where 99.9% of my orders are coming from. I believe I have sold two things on Merc which at one time, when I began, was phenomenal for me.

I have truly neglected listing for the past several months but my spending has not curtailed and I believe I could officially verg on hoarder.

I'm reading again. After a long drought of reading an occasional book, usually  a non-fiction, but I have found an interesting author, Jim Harrison. I have finished one of his books and checked out another from the downtown library. The books are full of lust and liquor, Indians and land grabbers, cancer, promiscuity, wealth and interesting characters. The author also wrote Legends of the Fall, so you can imagine the thrill I have knowing I have about 20 books to plow through.

And in real life, I have ridiculously volunteered to foster two dogs who lost their home due to circumstances that many of us face. Money problems. I won't judge on the why and hows a person could find a home that does not allow dogs, I just know it must be terribly hard on him. And the poor dogs. It's a well know fact that I like dogs much better than most people.

I await their arrival.

Until then, I plug along and hope for better things to come.

Oh Oh oh. In ;the book one of the protagonists in an anxiety attack of sorts (this character is delicious) had been advised by one of his psychiatrists to list all the things he likes. I was hard pressed to go back to sleep after a 330am doggie bathroom trip so I began to list things I liked.

The list is endless....so my life, bereft of Joe, must be worth living if I enjoy/like graveyards, walking the dogs, auctions, making pies, smell of mowed grass, new shoes, puppies, etc. etc. etc.  

No Luck at the Yard Sales - Again

 Yesterday I ventured out in search of the elusive Yard Sale Holy Grail. I do not understand how the landscape of available garage sales in this area can yield such pathetic results. I watch the "influencers" on YouTube and see them score wonderful items and then post the results of what sold, how much they spent and what the items have been listed at asking prices. For example - Spent 36$ - listed at 385$ It just does not happen around here for me.

A month or so ago, I bought a 1962 Barbie Doll Dream House form the original owner. I was very excited because they list on Ebay for good money and I had the original owner - the provenance! It was huge and the cost of shipping would arrive in the mid to upper 20's, so I sold it at my yard sale for what I paid for it. 

I suppose the essence of a successful yard sale chase is #1, knowing your stuff.  I cringe when I see nothing but clothes and plastic toys. I do not know my toys well enough to know what has value and what does not. #2 is know the territory you are hunting. Maybe the 100 mile yard sales are the Mother Lode. I did it once, in June and stuck out. I spent all day chasing the dream and ended up with desperate purchases that once again, I unloaded at my yard sale.

Yesterday I had high hopes of one that was advertised as having an abundance of items accumulated from years of Estate Sale purchases. Wrong. Just a bunch of Home Decorator stuff, once again childrens things, and Big Lot purchases,

The only outdoor that bore fruit was the Lutheran Church Community Yard Sale - which I must remember for next year because it is an every Saturday set up for 20$ a spot, I found a lady who was in the mood to deal with her exquisite jewelry booth.

  For 20 bucks she sold me three fantastic signed pieces.

 So, I went to my old stand by, the Estate Sale. 25 - 50% off on Saturday. I found 36$ worth of stuff, two purses, a pair of designer boots, an Hawaiian tea cup and saucer (she double charged me for this!!once at 50% off then again at 25% off, oh well. A cashmere sweater and a fabulous faux fur jacket so soft that you could lay a naked baby on it.

20$ should translate to 150$ 

36$ to 250$ I may keep one of the purses.

I may go back today, its 75% off.

I see Them Long Hard Times to Come

Originally started in early April

Missed me? Wonder where the hell I have been? Joe died in March and my world is upside down, side ways, all shook up and I am still processing life without him. It's empty and difficult to even acknowledge he is gone. No longer here. I feel him in the room, in the car, everywhere.

I have hammered on with Ebay despite it all and the sales are still trickling in. 

April Sales