posted on November 10, 2006 06:12:36 PM
I admit, I am a pack rat. I am trying to break the habit and trying to unload YEARS of ebay stuff. Some that I tried a year or two ago to sell that didn't, went back into it's box. Then I tried to sell it for 2 years at garage sales at a cheapO price of a buck! Still no takers. I put the stuff up on Butt - Bay, Low and behold! Bids, Bids and more BIDS! What is up with this??? I am NOT complaining in the least! The stuff I couldn't give away in the past is selling now! Not the expensive stuff, the quality stuff. It the Cr&(& that's selling. The stuff you can get at the thrift store for a couple of bucks or free if someone tosses it out.
posted on November 10, 2006 06:53:55 PM
I wonder if a new crop of buyers has matured - they just became old enough to have frill money and see nostalgia in those used items politely termed vintage (not your stuff personally - in my postcards too) I'm glad you're having a hot streak - my items are under the invisible cloak!
posted on November 10, 2006 09:57:33 PM
I'm selling some Christmas stuff for a friend whose spouse died. She was a schoolteacher and decorated her classrooms in a huge way, and he has four of everything you'd ever want to decorate with.
One of the items is a low-cost plastic shower curtain, Christmas-themed, with a Christmas tree on it. I almost didn't list it--but it's had 105 or so hits and three bids. I started it very low, so it probably won't go very high. But I just look at that auction and shake my head in wonder.
Are there really people who would change their *shower curtains,* for God's sake, just for a holiday???
posted on November 10, 2006 11:11:14 PM
This is so darn funny! A shower Curtain! Maybe we should all go look in our drawers, closets and especially those bags getting reading to go to charity for a second look! (giggle) There are probably very VAULABLE (giggle Smurk) treasures to be found! HEE HEE HEE
Don't forget to look waaaaaaay in the back of the closet and up on top of that shelf over there. You know, the stuff you only look at once a year if you're lucky !!
posted on November 10, 2006 11:30:34 PM
Just something to add along these lines. My 88 yr old mother just passed away a couple of months ago and my sister and I began to "glance" in her closets. There are boxes and boxes of things - and we have no idea what's in them. It's going to take weeks to go through and it's too bad I can't get it done before the Holidays but no way. I've found a few things but who knows what sort of "treasures" may be found!
posted on November 10, 2006 11:43:23 PM
I did that too with my grandma first and then both of my parents. It's like a treasure hunt. You open a box of nothing but paper, then look waaaaay down at the bottom and find a ring or something. Amazing! Makes the pain of the loss numb for awhile. Then time passes, your feeling better, you look at the treasure you found a while back and smile.
posted on November 11, 2006 08:18:44 AM
Paloma: The shower curtain is still in its original shrinkwrap, so at least it's new. Still.
Where I'm coming from on Christmas is a minimalist approach in our home. We've always had a tree (and now that our living room is smaller, it's a tabletop size), a wreath at the front door, and a few candles. When the grandkids are coming, I'll do a few more things. I've never been one of those Christmas "decorators," but neither was my mother or mother-in-law.
We also have a hard and fast rule not to do any entertaining during December. The month is busy enough without voluntarily adding to it. Of course, we love going to people's homes in December. . . .
So people who go overboard (as I define it) with their homes just dumbfound me, and that's why I had no idea there'd be interest in a shower curtain!
posted on November 12, 2006 04:13:11 PM
My mother decorated almost the entire house.
When my children were smaller, and since we lived so far away, I decorated every room, including all 3 bathrooms. I wanted to make it special for them since we couldn't spend it with the extended family at home.
We also baked cookies almost every night that I didn't work. We sent dozens to the guys in the barracks that couldn't go home. We also had at least 30 come to dinner, though not all at once...lol!
that's selling. The stuff you can get at the thrift store for a couple of bucks or free if someone tosses it out. 