spring break

Spring break is here! Yay! No vacation plans, but I do plan on getting inventory organized. Garage sale season should be here very very soon and of course, I want to buy new stuff, which means I need to make space. I'm also getting ready for 3 more consignment sales I'll be doing over the next month or so. The first consignment sale I did last weekend earned me an $84.75 check. As of now, I have $604 worth of inventory listed for the next one.

I managed to find an estate sale on Friday to satisfy the garage sale itch. I have been to maybe 3 estate sales in my whole life but that will be changing. I never thought to go to them before because I always had the notion that it was too expensive for my tightwad taste. That, and old people's junk was not my cup of tea. However, now that I resell, that mindset has changed. I am on the hunt for those lucrative vintage sanitary pads. But this sale was for a gentleman, who it appeared lived the bachelor lifestyle, so no luck with that, but here is what I did get:
$1 2 bars of vintage Dial soap
$2 family size bottle of 1990s Herbal Essences shampoo (I will be using this- OMG it just smells so good! I saw on a commercial that they are bringing back these scents as well as the retro packaging- I'm in heaven)
$2 set of 8 new in package blank VHS cassettes
.25 rolodex
$2.75 3 tubes of 1970s Chapstick and Blistex- all still sealed

Then I went back yesterday for half price day. For $4, I walked away with:
2 boxes of floppy disks (sealed)
1 microcassette
a Smithsonian mug

Will keep you posted on what sells. I already have a $9.99 bid for the lot of lip balms.

eBay:

Akai MPKmini MPK Mini 25 Key Laptop Production Keyboard Midi Controller

Sold for $61.00 plus $10 shipping, came from husband's personal stuff. He originally paid around $30.


LIFE'S TOO SHORT NOT TO LIVE IT AS A TEXAN COFFEE MUG TEA CUP TEXAS FLAG

Sold for $9.99 plus $7.30 shipping, paid probably 59 cents (Goodwill)

Spring time

So it is officially spring which means a few exciting things! It is consignment season, and also garage sale time is coming soon! I am itching to get to a garage sale but they haven't started just yet. Maybe the weekend after Easter?

I did my first consignment sale this weekend. It is a new one and pretty small, but the upside is you get 70% (the other one I do is 65%) and it's a $15 consignor fee (other is $25). Plus they sort all your stuff for you instead of the other one where you have to play find the unsold items in a frenzy of other people. I still find it secretly humorous that I do all these kids' sales when I haven't any kids myself. :) It looks like I made almost $85. It's a start, especially considering I left one tote at home... Hee...

I just went to Chicago with 10 students for our annual spelling bee. It was an exhausting trip (had to be at the school at 5:30 AM Friday and got back to the school at 3:00 AM Saturday, FYI Chicago is a 6-hr drive) but good news is my 5th grader won the 3rd-5th grade bee! Well she tied for first place because we were running way behind so they declared co-winners, but I bet she could have taken it all. There were at least 100 spellers. I am such a proud teacher.

On the eBay front...

Haven't been listing in awhile as work has taken precedence. I've been doing aftercare till 6 once a week and Saturday school which is test prep. Also had major grading to take care of for report cards, and a bunch of entries to submit to a writing contest. We've been going to the Y more often lately to work out too! Next week is spring break!! Maybe I'll get some items listed then.

CJ CHRISTOPHER AND & BANKS 3X BROADWAY MUSICAL NYC NEW YORK PLAYS THEATER JACKET

Looks way better in person. Sold: $23 (best offer) and free shipping. Forget what I paid, maybe $5? VOA I think.

DISNEY STORE SPECIAL SECRET AGENT OSO PLUSH STUFFED BEAR ANIMAL TOY 14" SOFT!


Sold $9.99 plus $5.00 shipping. FINALLY this was paid for. It sold probably half a dozen times and I had to open unpaid cases every time. So weird. Anyway picked this up for $2 at a GS. Thought I'd get more but alas.

VINTAGE SUSAN BRISTOL WOMENS SIZE LARGE CARDIGAN SWEATER RIBBONS BOWS

Sold $9.99 plus $7.50 shipping. Picked this up in my big collection of Christmas sweaters. Go figure it sold this close to summer time. Paid, um, $3-5ish?

LOT OF 6 VTECH VSMILE DISNEY GAMES CARTRIDGES TINKERBELL ALADDIN LITTLE MERMAID

Sold $27.88 plus $3.50 shipping. Picked up for probably $2ish. VOA.

HUGE LOT OF 9 NEW NIP BLU BLUE RAY BLU-RAY DISCS DVDS FACTORY SEALED SHEEN ALLEN

Sold: $14.99 plus $6.00 shipping. Last lot of Dollar Tree DVDs. Paid $9.00. Total profit for all 26 DVDs: $19.

Sales

Yikes... It's already March! Consignment sale season is coming!!

Here are my recent eBay sales...  Nothing to go crazy for but for the amount of effort I'm putting in, it's rather consistent.

HUGE LOT OF 9 NEW NIP BLU BLUE RAY BLU-RAY DISCS DVDS FACTORY SEALED SHEEN BATES

Sold for $15.00 plus $6.00 shipping. Paid $9 (Dollar Tree)

NEW NIP Truth and & Life New Testament Dramatized Audio Bible 18 CDs

Sold for $19.99 plus $4 shipping. Paid $2.92 (VOA)

Lot of 8 Books The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Spud Murphy

Sold for $17.50 plus $4 shipping. Paid probably no more than $5.

VINTAGE NEW NIP STAR WARS R2D2 R2 D2 KEYCHAIN ALARM CLOCK 1997 WORKS!! LUCAS

So glad to get rid of this!! Had it for over a year with no interest...
Sold $7.00 and free shipping, paid $2.99 (VOA)

Women's 2X Plus Size Alfred Dunner Cozy Red Sweater Perfect for Winter!

Sold for $14.00 plus $8.00 shipping, paid 19 cents (SA)

Huge Lot of 17 Goosebumps RL R.L.Stine Books Give Yourself Ghosts of Fear Street

Sold $19.99 plus $4.00 shipping, paid no more than $8 (probably much less)