don't sell the baby

i have to start by addressing a frequent email question that i get..why am i not selling on ebay anymore??

i do, but not very often. right around the time i got pregnant is when ebay was going thru their changes and i was introduced to etsy. i know dancers like a bargain but running auctions was very time consuming due to the amount of email maintenance, and shipping labels. a couple of years ago bids were ending high so it was worth it to sell on ebay still. but now after paying the ebay fees it's not worth the cost to do it full time. am doing quite well on etsy and with wholesaling am am happily not forking out a good portion of profits to ebay anymore. so less profit to ebay means listing less items means i don't have to kill myself to make a bunch of sales. don't need the advertising cost of ebay..it's ok as a reminder here and there but not to run more than a few auctions at a time unless it's all oops items.

plus i check the overall scene on ebay every few days and unless i see lots of bids on items, i won't list. the market has been flat. oversaturated with same items, and i won't list items in the garage sale environment unless it's a sale or special promo.

speaking of garage sales, my husband brought home a pot of pink flowers for me the other day, marked down to fifty cents. today he had a garage sale. i saw a woman walking away with my flowers, she had paid two dollars for them. isn't he romantic?

boy, mention you're gonna have a garage sale and the vultures start circulating at the crack of dawn. i thought i was on my game by being up with coffee at 6am but i peeked out the blinds and there were already cars parked ready to raid us at 7.

my husband is much better at doing the sales part, we raised over $550 today. in another blog i'll show you in a few easy steps how to de-clutter your life and move to a tropical island. the key is not packing up all your items and preparing to ship them. the key is to pack as if you are going on vacation and can only bring two suitcases. we'll get into that later. moving is always a great indication of how much we use retail therapy. i can't believe how much crap we have. and we are really careful about what we buy (besides my boobs but that's been a wish since i was 13 and my teen friends had bumps and i DIDNT)

so i did the chatter and socializing and love it, i made sure the baby wasn't sold or anything else that we needed right now. he sold one bed so i guess he's sleeping on the floor. he sold our couch, we're sitting in plastic chairs to watch tv. guess that'll encourage us to not watch tv. or maybe move the tv into the bedroom so we can sit on the one bed that's left. sold my dresser so all my clothes are on the floor. other than zacks bed, my bed (which i'll only sell last minute, sorry), and the high chair and tv, there's nothing in our house. i love it. nothing pisses me off more than clutter. i hate having things on the floor (no dresser) but also like the "i can throw my clothes into a suitcase and be gone in ten minutes" feeling as well.

still gotta pack up the business. been listing odds and ends on etsy. don't expect to see a lot of new stuff in the next two weeks, i'll be finishing up three wholesale orders then packing the dyes to shuffle them to oahu. not too much store merchandise and supplies to move, i'm happy to say. i'm down to three boxes of white stuff..scarves, purses, pillowcases..i'll eventually dye it all and sell it. and down to about four boxes of stuff that either needs dye fixing or i'll just sell it at a deep discount (ebay?) and free up the space. eventually i'll only have a few boxes. i'll probably always own more business stuff than personal stuff and that is fine. someday we may move to that huge house in arizona and put all our crap there permanently. but not yet..summer is almost here. we'll be staying in our 'vacay' condo. still may try to sell it and use funds to pay down the arizona house. but it's kinda nice having a little shithole near waikiki. the most beautiful place on earth.