Just when I thought I had worked out a pretty good system... This week caught me completely by surprise. That sounds a little dramatic but I was seriously stressed and I felt exhausted from working really hard and accomplishing very little.
The last few weeks were very productive. I was practicing the Dralle Method and successfully working like a little beaver writing up, taking pictures and listing on eBay. I was listing 15 - 20 items at auction every day or so and easily accomplishing my goal of 25 to 50 and more auctions each week.
Last Saturday my family came over for a little pool party. I had the nicest day! When Monday came, I had nothing ready to list. My existing auctions were ending almost every day. On Monday night eBay announced a 10 cent auction listing sale for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Also on Monday, I got a call from TomCat Solutions asking if I would foster a couple of barn kittens for a week or so.
That was a no-brainer for me, I adopted two kittens last year and I am so glad that I did. I was happy to help out!
On Tuesday a cage was set up in my barn and 5 kittens arrived. Unfortunately, one or two of them had the sniffles so they all started on twice a day antibiotics. There is one yellow stripe and 4 gray striped kittens and they all look the same. Luckily my friend who lives down the street, and who is always so helpful, has agreed to help me with the medication that they need for a week. We dose one and transfer it to a holding cage and so on. Each day it is taking almost two hours between feedings and medication dosings.
Meanwhile, I had nothing to list on eBay. I desperately (okay, a little dramatic) wanted to take advantage of the listing sale. Since I hadn't been out yard saling on Saturday, I had nothing new. Oh yes, I have plenty in the containers under Bijou's table but that is the stuff that I am saving for a cold winter day. (it is also the stuff that is hard for me to motivate myself to get into)
So, I thought I would look in my own cabinets. After all, why waste a 10 cent sale on $9.99 items that usually only cost 25 cents to list? Wouldn't a better idea be to find some higher priced items? In those cabinets I found a Waterford biscuit barrel, a Toby jug, an Atlantis crystal decanter, some sterling cork toppers, also some other items from earlier yard sales. Plus ten more lots of postage stamps that I have had since I first started selling on eBay. I ended up with only 33 new auctions but I saved a respectable amount on listing fees.
It took three days to pull together those 33 auctions. I just couldn't seem to find time to work something through from start to finish. It really sounds like a fairly ordinary week but while I was in it, I felt frustrated at all times!
There are only a handful of yard sales for tomorrow. It is the Labor Day weekend so I wasn't expecting many. Tomorrow starts a new week! Let's hope it is a productive one!
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