Missy's Birthday

 Every Sept 4th, for some reason I can't put my finger on, I remember it's Missy/Susan's birthday. Mayve because it is exactly six months after mine. We went to grammar school together for 8 years in my little old home town of Versailles. The parted ways as we went to different highschools. I, to the dreaded Catholic school in Lex where I knew only ONE person, and she to public high school where everyone I grew up with, went to the swimming pool with, went to church with, they all went to WCHS.

Happy B-day Missy.

This has been a good month so far. I have sold and mailed at least one thing every day! I was shocked by my E-bay bill, but will give it one more month and see what happens. They took 25% of my sales in fees and shipping charges. I truly con't understand. I had one return, which still has not arrived, and they killed that TRASHED listing I had, so maybe I'm being fined over that.

So here I am, printing out shipping labels. I made a rookie mistake and did not weigh my "bundle" package and totally underestimated the cost of shipping. I'm eating another $5 of profit mailing it myself. Bummer. But I bought three of the four things at the BINS, so that is about $5 of cost and the ring, I can't remember. My profit will be 72 less 10, approximately, so 60ish. Good to me.

I have my eyes on a Miriam Haskell lot that is coming for sale in the near future. I will refrain from purchasing any more until then.

I did break down and go to the BINS yesterday. Spent 26$ Can't think of anything special I got except two pieces of M.A. Bradley pottery which I will add to my lot for Facebook Marketplace. A three tiered cat hat box. A pair of converse shoes, a tote, two blankets, one brand new with tags, a pair of cool jeweled jeans but upon closer inspection, it is missing the front button, a beaded shirt I have a stubborn stain I can't get out (boo hoo), and other odds and ends I can't recall.

Rookie mistake, but I am becoming judicious in my sourcing and looking for items that will net me 30$ to 40$.

Oh oh oh! They have made changes at the BINS. No longer are the Shoe People allowed to congregate and park their carts at that end of the store. They are not allowing people to abandon their carts to shop. I love it. They said more changes to come. I'm happy I complained. It was the Wild West last week.