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| Thought About Quitting This Morning, Karma Changed My Mind
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Added on 11/12/07 by Betsy
This morning I lay in bed thinking about the whopping $140 I made on Ebay last week.
Thinking about the gas I guzzled into the dry throat of the Volvo, about the shakes I got from drinking too much coffee at 5 in the morning in line for the Catholic's garbage doesn't seem so bad...and I decided I have had it.
Do I really make money or am I just making and spending the same $25 I started this rat trap business with 5 years ago?
Sitting online waiting for auctions to end this afternoon I realized most mommies are probably reading romance novels and having "me" moments while I sit in the basement waiting for an Arkansas grammie to figure if she wants to spend that much on Build a Bears when a miracle happened.
Karma intervened.
I sold a bowl for $100.
A mashed potato bowl.
I just paid my electric bill with a mashed potato bowl.
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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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