The Bazaar

My Mom and sisters and I are having a craft/bazaar show at my sisters house in a couple of weeks. I'm really looking forward to it! One of my sisters does graphic design and she made this flyer to put up all over town. She does really good work, doesn't she? Who wouldn't want to stop in after seeing this invitation?!! She has an Etsy shop and sells her personalized greeting cards. She gets really busy this time of year so if you need any personalized cards or stationery just hop on over and check out her shop! My sister who is having the show at her house is very talented also. She is making all sorts of wonderful things that will sell for sure. My daughter is making lots of baked goods. Her cookies won at the county fair this year and she was supposed to go to the State Fair with them but it was too late to enter! My mom will be making some of her pretty greeting cards. I have another sister that might make some things if she gets around to it. She's been pretty busy lately.

Me....I'm going to try to get a few things made. I might do some cards. I have an old sled that is for decorating purposes only that I picked up at Goodwill...I know what I want to do with it in my mind....I'm just not sure it will translate to the actual sled! I'm thinking I might take some of my blue jars and put some pebbles or Epsom salts in the bottom and then a battery operated tea light in the center of that and top it off with a zinc lid. Candles in blue jars give off a very pretty glow! I've been looking on Pinterest for some ideas of things to make. Trouble is, I've spent more time looking than doing! If I get some things made I will post them on here to see whatcha think!  Anyway, it sounds like lots of people will be coming!

No sales to report today. :( Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam

Priority Mail....

When you are getting a package ready and you weigh it and you were planning on sending it by parcel select and then you see that to send it by Priority mail only costs 5 cents more, do you do it? I've had that happen to me a couple of times lately and I figure it's only a little bit more....might as well get it there faster and make the customer happy! What do you do?

I had 2 sales today. No fortune made today!

 Homer Laughlin Gravy Boat - Paid $1.00 - Sold for $7.50

Profit after fees and shipping - $3.96

 

Winnie the Pooh FTD Planter

Paid 25 cents - Sold for $8.00

Profit after fees and shipping - $5.92

 

Well, that about sums it up! I'm off to bed. Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam

Monday's Sales

10 Copper Jello Molds - Paid $2.38 - Sold for $8.95

10 Jello Molds - Free....my sister paid for them - Sold for $7.00

Sold the 2 sets together - Profit $13.92

 

Vintage Polaroid Camera - Paid $1.00 - Sold for $9.95

Profit after shipping and fees - $6.87

10 Wonder of the World's Progress books, 1935

Paid $5.00 - Sold for $14.50

Profit after shipping and fees - $6.93

2 Atlas Coffee Jars - Paid $2.00 - Sold for $19.95

Profit after shipping and fees - $13.20

 

A couple of those orders haven't paid yet and I don't have any of them ready to go to the Post Office. I will update tomorrow and let you know what my actual profit is.

 

Today we went to get more jars! One lady had 176 and the other had 29 for a total of 205 jars! I think I'm well stocked for awhile! When we got home I looked through the jars kind of quickly to see if there were any special ones that might sell for more. I found one Ball jar with the number 13 on the bottom. Those jars are said to be rare because people were superstitious and would break the jars that had the number 13 on the bottom! I don't know if that's true or not but I have only come across a few with that number and I've been selling jars for 4 years. I can usually sell a quart jar with the #13 on it for about $15.00. I also found a green Ball Perfect Mason quart jar! I looked up the "sold" listings and they seem to sell from $60-$80!!! I listed mine tonight and started it at $19.95 and it had a bid pretty quickly. I just put it on a 3 day auction because I saw that someone else had listed one tonight too but theirs is on a 7 day auction. Hopefully I will make some good money on it! This picture below shows the difference between the regular blue jars and the green one!

 

So, not a bad day. I sold $60.35 worth of merchandise. I will figure the profit tomorrow and update the pictures. I got a lot more inventory that hopefully will sell soon! Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam



Sunday's Sales and It All Adds Up!

 Tommy Hilfiger Mens Shirt

Paid $1.69 Sold for $9.50 plus shipping

Profit after packaging and fees - $6.05

 

100 Vintage Scrabble Tiles

Paid $1.69 Sold for $10.00 plus shipping

Profit after packaging and fees - $6.33

 

 100 New in Bag Scrabble Tiles

Paid $1.00 Sold for $9.95 plus shipping

Profit after packaging and fees - $7.51

 

4 Pearl Buckles

Paid 25 cents Sold for $4.00 plus shipping

Profit after packaging and fees - $3.77

 

I made $23.66 profit today. Not a whole lot. BUT, if you take that and multiply it by 30 days, that's $709.80. That's grocery money for our family of 7 for a month! In fact, since my husband has been out of work, that's more than one months worth of groceries. We've been a LOT more careful with our money since he's been out of work. So like I've said before, every little bit helps! I would love to find things that would be worth more money but that takes time, which I don't have a lot of, and it also would take more money!

 

I am going out to buy more jars tomorrow. I had two calls about an ad that I put in our electricity's newspaper. It's a free ad and I just say that I'm looking for the blue canning jars and will pay $1.00 each for them! One lady has 27 jars and another has 170! I am hoping that I sell some lots of jars real soon! I hate to pay out that much money but I know that I will sell them......eventually!

 

Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam



A Few New Listings

No sales today. I re-listed a few things and added several old Avon decanters in my "Avon" section of my store. I've found out that vintage Avon isn't really that good of a seller. I've sold 3 or 4 pieces so far. I've got quite a few more to list. I found them at a yard sale for 10 cents each. That's the only reason I bought them. I figured for that price I could take a risk! But....I don't like having stuff sit around forever.

My husband has a job interview Tuesday. I don't know if I'm glad or not. It won't be a very high paying job. People say "it's better than nothing"....I don't know about that! I wish a good paying job would fall in our lap! I wish we could figure out something else. He's a very hard worker. He has his own small lawn care business but that's over with for the season. I'm sure there are people that need odd jobs done around the house that he might be able to do if they just knew about him. If he could get into something like that somehow and charge $20-$25/hr. that would be great!  I'm hoping we can figure something out. It would be great if we could get into selling on Ebay full-time but I think that will take some time to get going. Anyway...just thinking out loud!

Have a great day! ~~Pam

Estate Sales

My hubby and I went to an estate sale this afternoon. I didn't know about it until we came upon it. I wish I would have gotten there sooner. It was my kind of sale! But, it was way too expensive even with the 20% discount since today was the second day. Tomorrow morning everything is 40% off so we might stop back to see if there are a couple of things that we were looking at still there. After one o'clock the prices are reduced 70% but there probably won't be a whole lot left. Anyway, they had some of the blue Ball jars that have the wire handles....I think my husband said they had 11. Right now I'm pretty well stocked on blue jars...they are selling kinda slow! These were marked $2.50 each and I don't like to pay more than $1.00 each. If we go in the morning they would be $1.50 each which I might just buy. I did have a lady call me this afternoon that said she had 40 or 50 jars for me so I might have all I need without paying more. They had some a small box of buttons, mostly pearl...the box measured probably 3x6 and 1 inch deep marked for $35!!! No way would I pay that much. Even tomorrow afternoon at 70% off they would be $10.50 which is more than I would want to pay just to resell them. Estate sales really aren't my cup of tea. They can be fun to look through but I guess I'm too cheap to pay the prices! At least around here they seem to be pretty expensive. Yard sales are much more fun for me....wish we could have them in the winter!

 





Today's Sales:



 The Old Curiosity Shop Butter Dish - Paid $1.38 - Sold at auction - $9.95

 

29 Metal Drawer Pulls - Paid $3.00 - Sold for $20.00

 

I went to see the doctor today. Last week I cut my leg on a curtain rod end that was sticking out on the bottom of our French door...the rubber end had come off. It left about a 2 inch gash. I just cleaned it up with a baby wipe and put band-aids on it and didn't think much more about it. Then 2 days ago one of my daughters thought it looked infected! I couldn't tell....it was a little red around the cut but it had a scab on part of it so I thought it was healing. So, being the paranoid person that I am I start googling things about infections and then thought about a tetanus shot! When was the last time I had one? It's already been a week since the cut so I'm getting scared! I called and talked to the nurse and she said the computer records only went back 5 years and I hadn't had one since then. She really made it seem like it was probably too late to get one for this incident but I should come in anyway. I called again this morning to find out exactly when my last one was so they looked up my records and it was in July of 2000! Yikes! 13 years ago! So I'm figuring I'm going to get lockjaw for sure now! I went in and the doctor said the cut looks fine...no infection, and he acted like it would be highly unlikely...like great odds....that I would get tetanus. I hope he's right! I looked up waaaayyyy too much information on it! It's a HORRIBLE disease! I really have scared myself silly about it. It's been 8 days since I cut myself  and it can take up to 21 days for symptoms to show up. 8 days is the average though. I will still be scared for the next 2 weeks! So there you have it.....now you know I'm a crazy person! I should really start getting busy with my listings to keep my mind off of it! Well, that's about all for now. Have a great day! ~~Pam

 





2 Candles and a Jar

 Yankee Candle - paid 50 cents - sold for $6.55
This candle was half used.

 

 Yankee Candle - paid $6.38 at Goodwill - Sold for $15.45
This candle still had about 3 1/2 inches of candle left in it.

Both candles sold to the same person

Ball Improved Quart Jar - paid $1.00 - Sold for $9.95

 

Well, I didn't make a ton today but at least I sold something! That's about all I've got for now.

 

Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam