Update on My Goal

Well, as you can see from the ticker on the right, I didn't get anywhere near my goal of listing $100/day....let alone my original goal of $200/day! Well, it is what it is. I probably could have tried harder but sometimes life just gets crazy! The funny thing is, I almost sold a total of what I listed which is a lot better than I thought it would be. So does this mean if I would have listed $3000 worth of stuff I might have sold that much? Maybe I'm cutting myself short by not trying harder! In the month of January I sold $1056.65 in my Etsy vintage shop, $4.75 in my Etsy button shop and $463.42 on eBay for a total of $1524.82! I figured after the cost of the things I sold and the fees and packing costs that I cleared $1083.64 profit! Not too shabby! I would like to need to try to double that though so I do need to work harder I guess. I would really like to get all of my inventory listed before the yard sales start up again. I don't have anything really thrilling to sell but I could at least get it listed and see what happens! Here's what I sold today:

Set of 16 Jello Molds

Paid $1.00 - Sold for $11.50 - Profit $9.75

25 Zinc Lids

These are part of the lids I got the other day from a lady north of here. I ended up paying her $25.00 for 75 lids. She wanted 50 cents each which would have been $37.50 but I told her I couldn't go more than $25 which made them 33 cents each. Anyway, I just hated paying anything for them because usually when I buy jars from people a lot of them come with lids or they just throw them in extra! So tonight I thought I wanted to at least get my $25 back fairly soon so I listed these for $29.95 and they sold within a couple of hours! I figured it pretty close too because if I figure that I paid $25 for just these 25 lids and then take off fees I ended up 69 cents in the hole! Now at least I can figure that the other 50 lids are paid for free and clear! And I got my money back!

 

Well, I need to get to bed. Thanks so much for stopping by! ~~Pam