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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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| Vintage Plushies to Collect and Sell as Lots
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Added on 01/08/07 by Betsy
It is totally crazy but I think I could write a book about old stuffed animals. I know my parents are so proud!
These are the things I collect in the stuffed animal bin that aren't really worth while to sell individually but I keep them in a rubbermaid container and sell them when I get to "lot" level.
Cabbage Patch Kids- we are talking the old school Coleco doll your gramma beat some other gramma over the head for 24 years ago. I don't really mess with collecting any of later editions.
Care Bears- Vintage bears used to be very good sellers- say 5 years ago. However sales have fallen off since the reintroduction of the toy by the Play Along company (brilliant folks did the same thing with the Cabbage Patch and Strawberry Shortcake and are making a fortune off "dead" brands). So, now I buy the vintage ones and throw them in a lot once I collect 6 or 8 bears and let people bid it out. Lots of vintage sell for $15-45. Although if you don't do your research and accidentally throw a bear worth something into the lot like Grams with her shawl who is worth $28-80 by herself then your lot could go for more.
Rainbow Brite- another doll line that used to be big money on Ebay but the Play Along people screwed it up by putting new ones on the shelf. If I see someone's old collection of Rainbow, some Sprites, horse. . . (read post) |
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