Friday's Sales

Lot of Game Pieces

Paid ? - Sold for $8.50 - Profit

8 Blue Ball Pint Jars

Paid $8.00 - Sold for $56.00 - Profit $45.89

 

I've been collecting odds and ends game pieces for quite awhile knowing that they will sell. These are just from games we've had over the years. I started them at $10 but nothing ever happened so I lowered them to starting at $8.50. I got one bid. I was hoping for more but I guess a little bit for something that's just been sitting around is okay. I printed shipping and then realized they hadn't paid yet! Don't know what I was thinking! I will wait to mail it out till I get paid, that's for sure!

 

It's frustrating to me when someone asks for specific things like a custom order for jars and then they take days to pay! This order for the 8 pint jars went okay, it's just that it took a few days. The order for 30 jars is still in limbo...she said she would pay Tuesday or Wednesday so by Thursday night I sent her a message to see if she still wanted them. She got right back to me and said yes, she would pay Friday. So far, no pay! I guess it's just frustrating because I need to know if I can count on that money coming in! If I didn't need the money I would tell her the offer of free shipping expires today! Well, enough of my complaining!

 

After my busy day the other day I fizzled out yesterday and didn't accomplish much of anything! So today I need to get busy....thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam



Update on My List

2 Tea Towels

Paid $1.00 - Sold for $5.00 - Profit $3.29

 

Well I did better today than I thought I would but I didn't finish everything. I've been battling a cold all week so everything I did seemed to take a lot out of me. I will have to add the beadboard look wallpaper to tomorrows list. Hopefully I can cut my sons hair tomorrow or Saturday. Also, maybe I can get my den cleaned up tomorrow too. I still have a bunch of jars sitting around in here just waiting for my buyer to pay, which she says she will tomorrow. Of course then I will have to get 30 jars all packed up! Yikes! Anyway, I think posting a "to-do" list really helped me to stay focused on getting things crossed off! It made working a little bit more fun!

 

If you notice my ticker I am almost up to listing $1000 so far this month! Of course I should be past $1500 by now. Still hoping to do more next week! We are having company Sunday so we are hoping to have the house pretty much done by then. 

 

Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam

 

 

Today's To-Do List

Milk Glass Hobnail Lamp

Paid $3.38 - Sold for $14.95 - Profit $12.05

 

This is what I sold yesterday. I listed it about a week ago and it was still sitting on my desk! Glad to get that off! I still need to get it packaged up today. Yesterday I got my 20 jar order ready and shipped plus a 5 jar order and the wooden spools that I sold. I had a lady order 8 pint size jars but she hasn't actually gone through the payment process yet and neither has the one who wants 30 jars. I'm hoping they pay today as I'd like to get the jars out of my den plus I'd like need to pay a couple of bills today!

 

So, we have been fiddling around on this kitchen long enough and today I'm hoping to make a big dent in the "to-do" list for it. If my 19 year old son Sam can get the rest of the cupboard doors hung and if I can get my list done, then it'll be pretty much finished! Trouble is, my list is pretty long and I need to have most of it done by 5:00 this afternoon! So, to keep myself accountable, I will post my list here and cross it off as I go! That'll give me an incentive to get it done! I've already got my shower so I'm raring to go.....ha!

 

Basic Stuff:

Read Bible  read Leviticus ch. 20, 21 and Matthew ch. 28

clean up laundry room and start laundry   2nd load in, 3rd load in, last load in

clean up boys bathroom

clean up our bed and bath

get lamp order ready  also got a tea towel order ready to mail out

have one of the kids mail it out

clean up my den (office) so the floor is fairly noticeable!

cut Gideons hair (my 12 year old)

finish laundry all folded, hung and put away! ( a rare occurance!)

 

Kitchen Stuff:

clean out fridge

move out fridge and paint behind

paint back of cupboards that face the family room

paint window side of kitchen above cupboards

put up beadboard wallpaper between top & bottom cupboards on fridge side - finished on 1/18

put up beadboard wallpaper on stove side

paint the beadboard wallpaper

 

I'm posting this at 8:15 this morning.

 

If I can get all that done it'll be a miracle! Stay tuned! ~~Pam

 

p.s. While I take little breaks throughout the day I'm going to try to list a few things as I've been lax on that goal the past few days. Here's what I've listed so far:

 

Butterfly Table Runner - $5.00

Table Runner with Green Crochet Edge - $5.00

Table Runner - $5.00

Table Runner with Orange Crochet Edge - $5.00

Table Runner with Butterfly - $5.00

Ladies Leather Coat - Starting at $19.95

5 Blue Ball Quart Jars - listed these last night and forgot to record it - $32.50

Tuesday Update

5 Clear Atlas Jars

Paid $5.00 - Sold for $30.00 - Profit $23.83

54 Wooden Spools

Paid $1 or $2? - Sold for $10.50 - Profit $6.62

 

I sold these wooden spools tonight on eBay. I listed them at auction starting at $10.00. I really don't seem to have a lot of success on auctions for the most part. I should have been able to get more for these. I should have just listed them in my Etsy shop. I sold 55 empty wooden spools a year ago and got $18.50 for them. I don't know why I didn't just list them on DownVintageLane. Or I guess I should have started the auction at a higher price. Oh well...ya win some, ya lose some I guess. I don't remember what I would have paid for these. I had a few different batches that I had bought here and there but I probably didn't pay more than a couple of bucks for them. I guess somebody else just got a good deal!

 

I sold 5 clear jars today. The lady that wants the 30 jars hasn't paid yet. She said either today or tomorrow so I'm hoping it's soon! I had another lady ask me about 6 or 8 pint jars. She never got back to me after I answered her. Sometimes people say they want something and then ya never hear from them again!

 

I spent probably an hour and a half washing about 75 blue quart jars this afternoon! I decided to wash them in the bathtub as our kitchen faucet seems to be running really slow here lately and it would have taken forever to do them in the kitchen sink! The jars I get are usually fairly dirty. I take a brillo pad and scrub the outside and then put the brillo pad on the inside and take a long handled scrub brush and stick it in the jar and grab the brillo pad with the end of the scrub brush and twirl it all around on the inside scrubbing away! I did about 10 at a time....first the outside on all of them, then the inside on all of them, then I would rinse them all out and set them on a towel. The first 20 or 30 went pretty fast but I definitely slowed down the more I did! I know that tomorrow I will feel muscles in my arms and legs that I haven't felt in a long time! It's a little different washing them in the bathtub! I bent over the tub, I stood by the tub and bent over, I sat on the stool and leaned over....just about any ol' position I could get in I was in! At least they're done and in the morning I will get my 20 jar order ready and hope that I can get the 30 jar ready too! It'll take awhile to pack up that many jars. I feel like I put plenty of work into those jars and I earn my money!

 

Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam

I forgot all about updating my "experiment" yesterday so I've posted the statistics here below:

Of course we all know that the more you list, the more views you'll get and the more you'll sell. My vintage shop is definitely doing better! My button shop had more people who favored it, not as many views as last week but more than the first week. Still no sales the past 2 weeks but I really haven't been listing much yet. I'm hoping that after this week is over and we (hopefully) have most of this painting and sprucing up done that I will be able to make myself some kind of schedule to get more listed!

I will probably put up another post later tonight with any new sales that I might have! ~~Pam

Jars and More Jars!

Tonight I sold 20 jars and 20 zinc lids to one lady. Then a few minutes later I sold 5 jars to another. In the meantime I had a lady that had asked me about 30 jars a few weeks ago get ahold of me and we worked out a deal on those so I put up a listing for her! She says she won't be able to pay until tomorrow or Wednesday so I'm not quite counting those chickens yet but it will sure help if it goes through!

 

5 Ball Jars

Paid $5.00 Sold for $32.50 - Profit $26.77

20 Ball Jars AND 20 Zinc Lids

Paid $20.00 - Sold for $145.00 - Profit $107.50

 

Didn't get anything new listed today. Didn't get any painting done today either. I did take my oldest daughter into town so she could get her oil changed and we went to the bank and the post office. Was going to go to Goodwill but they had some kind of meeting or something this morning and weren't going to open until 1:00! Then I went to Dollar Tree for shipping supplies and went to Aldi for milk, bread and eggs! When I got home I relaxed for a bit and then started the laundry, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned up our bedroom and bathroom, made some homemade 30 minute dinner rolls and heated up some homemade chicken soup that I made the other day. After we ate supper I didn't accomplish much of anything! If I could have kept on a roll I could have gotten a lot done! I've been fighting a cold the past few days though so I don't have a whole lot of gumption!

 

So, I guess I will be washing lots of jars the next couple of days! :) And...hopefully working some in the kitchen too....maybe I'll wash a few jars, let some soak, paint a little bit, wash some jars, let some soak, paint a little more....

 

Thanks for stopping by!

~~Pam

The Best Kinds of Sales

Every once in awhile someone will give me something that I can sell. My family knows what I do and they like to go finding things for me to sell that might help us out. As I've said before, my sister Naomi has given me quite a few things here lately and tonight another item that she gave me sold! These salt & pepper shakers went pretty quick! I've made $79.15 profit on things Naomi has given me in the past few weeks! Thank you my dear sister! 

 

Wood Salt & Pepper Shakers

Gift from my sister Naomi - Sold for $7.95 plus shipping - Profit $7.77

 

 My oldest daughter Autumn found 3 Starbucks coffee mugs in the trash of one of her cleaning jobs. I already sold the "Shanghai" one for a profit of $9.22 and yesterday I sold this "Chicago" mug for $9.50. I still have a "Hawaii" one. They seemed to take quite awhile to sell. I must not have had the ones that go for more money. Anyway, Autumn is always on the lookout for stuff for me. Thank you my sweet daughter! A funny (not really...more crazy) story about this mug...I got the order and decided to get it ready to go right away. I wrapped it in tissue paper and then put some bubble wrap on my desk and set the mug down on the bubble wrap...and I heard a noise! I thought it sounded like I might have knicked it but then I figured it was probably just one of the bubbles that popped but I figured I better take a look so I opened up the tissue paper and sure enough there was the tiniest little piece of the cup laying there! It was crazy! I didn't slam the cup down or anything...just set it down on bubble wrap! The knick was so so tiny that you could barely even tell it was there so then I was in a quandary as to what to do but I figured I better fess up to the buyer. I took a picture of the cup and then let them know what happened. I offered a $3.00 refund if they still wanted it or a full refund if they didn't. They took the $3.00 refund so I sent the cup. You can see the chip in the 2nd picture below. It's more noticeable in the picture than it was in real life. Anyway, I'm glad they were understanding!

Gift from my daughter Autumn - Sold for $9.50 - Refunded $3.00 - Profit $5.67

 



So I guess what I was going to say about "best kinds of sales"....they are the ones where you don't have any investment in it yourself! And I really do appreciate my family for thinking of me!

We worked a lot in the kitchen today! I can see it starting to come together. I wasn't sure about the red cabinets and I also painted the island a "Spanish Olive" green and I wasn't sure about that but once we started getting the top cabinets painted white it all started to look lots better! Still have some to go on it but I'm hoping that by Tuesday or Wednesday we can have it all finished up so I can share pictures! Oh, and my daughter had taken "before" pictures with her ipad...I might just keep it real and show them too!

Thanks for stopping by! ~~Pam

p.s. Almost forgot to update! I listed 3 auctions starting at $10 each and another auction at $12.50 so my total listings for today are at least $42.50....not quite my $100/day, is it? I will try really hard to catch up after all this painting is done!