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| Tiffany at a Garage Sale
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Added on 06/23/07 by Betsy
Now when you read the title to this listing you were probably thinking...big news Betsy... and "I think we're alone now" single in someone's free box.
But no. That is not the Tiffany I am speaking of.
Came across my first blue box garage sale Tiffany item today.
Normally, when I come across good stuff at garage sales I try not to get too attached or excited. I don't ask questions about authenticity. I don't do anything to let on that I will not be parted from the item in my hand.
It is hard to be detached and disinterested in Tiffany.
"Why are you selling Tiffany at a garage sale?"
I had to ask especially since it didn't look like a Tiffany in the box sort of neighborhood.
"Wedding present from my mother in law. They are her taste not mine. Two bucks."
Funny isn't it. Mother-in-laws can't win. I know mine can't.
My wedding present was a homemade wreath with a jam packed Walmart potpourri center, wrapped in pink netting to allow for scent escape and topped off with a beady bow.
I thought about telling this chick she needed to practice more gratitude and that she could probably sell these for more than two bucks.
So now Karma came around and hooked me up with a belated wedding present.
I haven't decided whether to sell them or keep them. They are. . . (read post) |
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| Karma As Co-pilot
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Added on 05/31/07 by Betsy
Yesterday's post about the universe using Goodwill and garage sales to offer it's wares came true yet again.
I have been collecting baby crap for a woman who is broke and didn't even have the cash for a car seat. She works at a retirement home full time for seven dollars an hour and has a 2 month old girl.
Two weeks ago a friend of my mothers-Pat-who works at the same retirement home called and asked me to collect stuff for her, she had gone in with her coworkers and raised $20.
All they wanted was a car seat to keep the baby safe and free up mom to go to the grocery store alone with the baby. I took this as a challenge.
My 2 year old had a 1 year old highly rated car seat she was to big for, so I cheated a little and passed that along. I asked did she have a bouncer, swing ya know all that junk the rest of America takes for granted.
No, Pat said she has nothing. She works all the time and her mother watches her daughter. She financially supports her mom, herself and her daughter on 7 bucks an hour.
So Karma and I went shopping.
Saturday in mid- May is prime sale season. On this particular day there were 29 subdivision garage sales, each sale having 11-110 sale houses.
I started at 7:30. Now one of the problems with starting early is that people. . . (read post) |
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| Police Auctions- Good if you are low on razors
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Added on 05/30/07 by Betsy
Who would have thought the best place to get a 12 month supply of Gillettes would be a police auction?
Apparently those born with a spork in their mouth and sticky fingers love to boost the Quattro. Therefore, police often find stashes of these babies in the bed of El Caminos right next to a gaggle of infant cold medicine.
I watched 20 refill packs with one starter pack (as thought the thief was building an Ebay lot) go for $20- over $200 in razors.
That's the thing with this business- put a request out into the universe and there she be the next day. You just got to do your part by getting up at 5am.
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| ChildServ
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Added on 11/07/06 by Croncast
ChildServ is a group home for boys in Lisle, IL. It is a long term placement so typically the kids are there for around 2 years, some longer. The kids are usually 14-18- high school age. The staff is really dedicated to the well being of the kids and they love them tremendously even though as a result of the trauma they have been through these kids have a lot of behaviors that make them difficult to love. I have worked at several group homes and through case work visited many more. I have never seen a facility that respected the kids as much as ChildServ does, they really try to give the kids as much of a normal life as you can have living in a structured group home.
The kids that reside there typically have been in the system for years, many have been through a lot of foster homes and they just need a soft place to land with firm structure. Melissa is the group home manager and strict loving mommy type chick. A lot of the staff has been there for years, which is crazy since social work is measured in dog years 1=7.
There are also 2 other homes, one in Naperville and the other in Downers Grove. The Naperville home houses 6 girls, it is supposed to be an emergency group home for kids new to the system or for those have lost their last placement suddenly- however it is not unusual that the girls stay there for quite a while. The. . . (read post) |
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| Hunting Good Will
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Added on 10/17/06 by Betsy
If the Olympics should come to Chicago as Mayor Daley is hoping, I will contact the city's Olympic committee because I have the perfect idea for a new competitive sport. If the Olympic Committee gets a better gift bag from Tulsa and we are out of the running, I may contact NBC because my idea would also be a divine reality show.
If you watched the Atlanta Olympics you will remember the cheesy back stories about starving Eastern block mommies who sent their buxom baby off to shot put boarding school so she could have a shot at the good life.
Picture Chicago 2008, the cheesy camera fog parts and reveals the doors of Goodwill. It's 8:50 and the athletes are taking their positions, climbing out of all manner of hoopty and limping to the starting gate.
There's the Pall Mall Paul who talks through a hole in his throat but can jog like a pro when he spies anything that plugs in and was mad after 1989.
There's Grandma Jean who pretends to be checking everything over with her bifocals, but is actually switching price tags.
There are the religous chicks who always come in a herd and can never seem to satitate their thirst for ankle length denim skirts.
And then there is me. And just like them something happens to me once I get inside those doors.
I feel a rush of adrenaline and once my hands hit the handle of the. . . (read post) |
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| I hate money orders.
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Added on 10/06/06 by Betsy
This has been a rough week for the Queen.
I was in desperate need of cash. So I listed several items on one day as buy it now auctions. I came back to my computer several hours later and checked my hotmail. This is the message I got for the Bitty Baby I listed on my paypal only auction:
" Thank you for the baby, I have a 5 year old who has lost hers. So this works out great. This is my first time ordering on ebay. Can I mail you a money order, or do I have to go through paypal with my credit card info?"
Then my Cabbage Patch Kid Toys R Us 2001 1st Edition sold.
First there was an email at 10 am that asked: "Is there anyway you would consider a money order for this item?"
Apparently by 11 am Cabbie fever took over and she could not wait for my answer. So not only did she bid, she did a buy it now.
A buy it now, with a money order. That's like running into 7-11 for an Aquafina, going to the register, getting rung up then calling your Cousin Vera back east to put $1.10 in a saddlebag- pointing the horse in the general direction of the Midwest and giving it a good slap on the ass.
How well would that go over with the clerk? You would be kicked to the curb.
And the problem is you can't bitch these people out because then they have the audacity to give you a neg.
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| Elmo TMX- how to find and sell yours for mad cash
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Added on 09/30/06 by betsy
So this week's sale of the century wasn't at a garage or warehouse honey. It was at Toys R Us.
Last week I recalled all I had gotten my niece for her birthday was some previously nibbled play food, and since she was standing on the driveway i bought it from- it wasnt actually a surprise.
So out of guilt I went where the Queen rarely goes, somewhere where new in box is an expectation not a bonus. Yup Toys R Us, walkin around the joint I realized how I make such mad cash. Toys are pricey plastic!
While I was wandering around the store I stopped in front of the Elmo display- my niece loves Elmo. Of course there was a giant blank space where there ought to be floor to ceiling Tickle Me Elmo TMX dolls. I had seen a segment on Good Morning America about how these were selling out and my sister had looked up the completeds and told me they were worth $80-$100. Toys R Us is selling them for $39.99.
Now I know to the rest of the world a 100% mark up is unheard of in most things legal, but to the Queen its not all that impressive.
As I was standing there a store person walked by and I asked if by chance they had any Elmos in the back, since what the hell I'm standing there and I have$ 80 bucks burning a hole in my pocket. The dude looked genuinely apologetic and went into this long spiel about how it. . . (read post) |
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