My new eBay goals

1) I will list 20 new items EVERYDAY.

Selling on eBay is a numbers game. The more you list, the more you are going to sell.  The more you sell, the higher eBay moves you up in the rankings. Which means your items will be seen by more people.

The 20 items I am going to list each day will be prepared the night before. Taking photos is boring and my eyes get tired. So it is better if I do it first thing in the morning.

I will list the 20 items by category to speed on the process. Meaning if I am listing books it will 20 books that day.  Mens shirts will be 20 mens shirt that day, and so on.

2) I will clean my eBay room every night.

It is much easier to list and be productive in a neat, clean, organized room than working in chaos.

3) I will have the mailman or women pick up my orders everyday.

This is a service that the USPS offers free, when you ship anything Priority mail. I have never used this service. But at the new location this will save time in my day and make eBay a little easier.

4) I will pick a mandatory day to source.

Sourcing is fun, it’s like a reward for doing good. In the past I have always felt guilty about going out and sourcing, because there is alway something at home I should be doing. Yet sourcing is part of my job, so I will now give it a whole day to get it done.

Plus with I will need a 140 items every week to hit my 20 items per day.

Sourcing Day will also include sorting all the item brought that day into category. That will help with keeping the eBay room organized and also with listing the 20 items everyday. NO DEATH PILES

5) I will source higher value items.

They are harder to find, but just as easy to list. Plus once you really start looking for them it will become easier to know what you are looking for.

6) I will put out the money for better equipment.

I have no one to blame but myself if I don’t make the money I need to live. I hope by following these guild lines I can have balance in my life. 

     It’s Monday today, and boy do I love Mondays. We start getting ready for the flea market on Fridays than we are there all day Saturday and Sunday. So Monday is my day to do the things I need to do for me… That is after I get the Lover out of bed and off to work. (which is harder than it’s sounds)

     So at this point in my life I am selling on eBay to make money. Today I have 8 package to pack and ship. That will pretter much take up my morning. I will than do all my relistings which just means relisting everything that has been up for 30 days and didn’t sell.  After that I will list today only about 5 items because it’s MONDAY.

     I have a lot of friends who need to make more money than they make at their 9 to 5 jobs. They are always looking for part time work and I tell them go though your closet to make more money. If you don’t want to sell it on eBay than take it to the local flea market. I would say 98% of them just don’t get it..

     Selling on eBay is easy and there is almost nothing that won’t sell… The trick is to remember that eBay is a numbers game. The more you list the more you will sell, plus you want to list everyday.  So I try to shoot for 10 listings a day which is very doable if I am not having a lazy day. I list Monday though Friday can’t on Saturday and Sunday because of the flea market.  

     Everyone worries about what to sell, here’s a hint list what you have first. Than ask your friend and family for their stuff, and list that. (here is a thought if you liked it once, so did someone else, so it will sell)

     This is the end of my Monday morning ramble. I hope you enjoyed it but I need to get started so I can get done.  I would like to make this an everyday thing so I can improve my writing skills while exercising my brain

Please leave me a comment and let me know about your Monday.....

Scavenger Life Episode 242: How Well Do Things Sell On eBay?

If you are going to sell on eBay these two are great to listen to while you're working.

Shawn Colvin- Steady On

So you need to make more money.

So you need to make more money.                                                                                                            You could go out and get a 2^nd job working for someone else or you could start your own business.          

Becoming a flea marking vendor is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3.

1. Find your local flea market and see what it takes to set up.
2. Go into everyroom of your home with a box and put in everything you no longer want.
3. Go to the flea market set up, and sell it!

I am not kidding about that being as easy as it is. That's how I got started about 5 years ago.

First finding your local flea market to get the details on setting up. Just go to Google and look it up 95% of the time all the information you need is there.

• Try to find an established flea market close to home that is set up to operate every weekend
• of a season. Established flea markets with good schedules will attract both vendors and shoppers. (more vendors = more shopper's so more shopper's = more money)
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• If it is a Saturday, Sunday flea market then you want to be there both days. If you can't be there both day's try to be there on Sunday!!!!! 95% of the time Sunday is the better money day!!!!!
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• If you are doing this only once or twice a season you will be best to pick week end's that are also the beginning of a month. People seem to have and spend more money the first 2 weekends of the month than they do the last 2 weekends.

Go into everyroom of your house with a box.

Just about EVERYTHING sells at a flea market. Dishes, clothing, TOYS, TOOLS, books, pots and pans, electronics, and Furnitures.

• If you don't think you have enough ask your friends and family, for their unwanted items.
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• Go to the flea market set up, and sell it!

Set up, what that means is to set up the things on your table, don't just dump them on the table.

• You want to make sure everything is clean and priced.
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• You will want to bring a table cloth and a dust rag.
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• You will want to make sure you bring money to make change with.

Well this is my easy 1 – 2 – 3 of starting out at the flea market. I will write more flea market common sense later. Please let me know if you liked this post, found it helpful. Thank you Lori Renee

chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies

It's cold today here in New Hampshire, so I decided to make some cookies.


These are Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal cookies that my mom and sister used to make all the time while I was growing up.

Very easy to make, takes about 15 minutes from start to finish. 

You will need 


2 cups Sugar
1 stick of butter
3 TBS cocoa cocoa
1/2 cup of milk




1tsp Vanilla 
1/2 cup Peanut Butter 
3 cups Quick oats








In a 4-quart sauce pan add the first 4 ingredients (Sugar, Butter, Cocoa, and Milk). 


Bring to a boil for 1 minutes.


Remove from heat and add last 3 ingredients (Vanilla, Peanut Butter, and Oats)




Mix all together and spoon on to wax paper.


This is a great treat and easy to make, ENJOY

7 steps

How do you stop making yourself miserable, and start living your dreams. I've been giving this one a lot of thought lately.

1. Walk- this is so easy and so important, yet we don't do it. Our bodies need physical exercise and walking is the easiest way to get it. Plus you are outside and you see people.
2. Sleep – is very important to good health. I can not function without 8 hours of sleep.
3. Friends – We need people. You should have a group of friends 5 or more. You don't need to see these people everyday, but with 5 or more you have a better chance of seeing at least one of them once a week.
4. Give Thanks- when you appreciate what you have you are less likely to be jealous of others.
5. Get involved- joining a group or going to church something that you have to do at least once a week. (But please make sure it is something you enjoy)
6. Limit what you watch- TV is not real nobody wants to keep up with the Kardashian's
7. And remember things don't make you happy, living YOUR dream makes you happy

Some time being me can be a little bit dizzy. I have Meniere's disease, which if you have to have a disease this is a good one to have. The only way I know how to explain it is this, it's like the morning after you been to a rock concert, having a hang over yet still being drunk.

I think I have learned to cope with the little flare up very well. I know that I need naps, don't know why, but they help with the dizziness and brain fog. I know now to sit down when I get dizzy, that save a lot of bumps on the head and skinned elbows.

What I have trouble with, is the loss of hearing and the loneliness that it causes. My left ear feels like there is a balloon blown up in it and the ringing is non stop. I can't figure out where loud sounds are coming from, which can be a little bit scary at times. If a blow dryer is on and you are talking I have now idea what you are saying.

The loneliness come from not being able to hear, and almost being afraid to leave the house. When you have the ringing and the fullness in your ear it very easy to get locked into your own head. At night it seems to be worse and you are so worn out from fighting the dizziness.

The good thing is you know that it won't last forever you just have to wait it out. 


What is Meniere's disease?

So we are back from The Lancaster Flea Market, it is nothing like my beloved Londonderry, but it does have it's charms.

I will start setting up in Lancaster next Sunday, I pray all goes well.

This was something

I had never seen at

a flea market before.

A booth for witch craft

kind of cool, but I don't

play around with stuff

like that.

This is the Lancaster Diner,

you see this right when you

walk in. Can't tell you to much

about it we didn't get anything.

All kinds of old jewelr

This was cool about 100

kinds of different hot sauces.

Sunday 11/6/11

I am off to the Lancaster Flea Market today, Lancaster Mass. They are only open on Sundays, but it is indoors and opened year round. I really thought about taking the 5 months off, now I see there is not anyway to do that. I am hoping I can get a following like I have in Londonderry to hold me over.

I plan on taking some pictures today and posting them later.

I guess I should go get Joe up, he is going to set up over in Salem NH today.

Here is a great book to read if you like flea markets

Thursday 11/3/11

I have not posted in a while, bad me. I kind of started this blog to jump start my brain. I can blame not writing on a lot of things, but it comes down to laziness on my part. So this morning as I wait to see the sun come up I will tell you a little about myself.

My name is Lori, yet I go by Renee. I am in my 40s and loving it, I live in New Hampshire. I am the mother to 2 beautiful young woman, Tara and Claire. I have a live in lover (oh do I love to say that word) who is Joe aka Andy West.

My greatest achievement is my two girls, Tara and Claire. I brought them up alone without and outside help. I am now starting to feel that I did it right! (I use to feel that I let them down) My girls are strong in both mind and body, they look at life as an adventure. Neither one of them is materialistic, they like nice things, but it does not define them.

Tara is 25 and live in San Francisco. She has been there for almost 3 years now. She will start school this coming Jan. (Very excited about this) She is bright and funny and always on the go it seems. She has a taste for life and is a free spirit. She really takes after my mom's side of the family.

Claire is 21 and live at home with me. She started school this past fall!!!! (I am so proud of her) Like me, school was not easy for Claire. Claire is a old soul, she is me and my grandpa Tompkins rolled into one. She is a late social bloomer, in the past 12 months her world has opened up.

Well the sun is coming up, so I want to go out and watch it. I will write more later.

Living the dream

I have a girl friend who is always saying, “I want your life” when in fact a lot of times I want parts of her life. I think it's all about living the dream. The only problem is what is the dream. I think everybody dream is different and you need to figure out what yours is. 

What is your dream? I mean really sit down and think about this. What makes you happy? 

My friend, Tara's apartment is always clean free of clutter. Warm and inviting. My apartment, which I love is not. Now part of that is because of what I do for work. The other part is because I am lazy and a pack rat.

So part one of me living my dream would be a warm clutter free apartment. 

I guess I will go work on part 1 of my dream.

Saturday morning

Saturday morning and time to get up! I miss it being light in the morning, but the coffee is warm, so all is good.

I have one more weekend after this of working at the flea market. It gets cold up here in New England so they will close here for the season. I don't know what I'll do for cash after that, but I trust in the Lord to find me something.

I am a coupon shopper, been doing it for about 30 years. About 5 years ago I started taken all my extras to the Flea market and selling it all there. It has worked out very well me. I wish I have started doing this when my girls were small it would have made a big difference in our lives.

 

This picture was taken this past September, it give you an idea as to what I do. I don't do this to get rich. This is how I pay for the little extras in life. (like car insurance, and the cable bill)

Morning

The best part of the day for me is the morning. I love the quiet and the feeling that you have the whole day ahead of you. That first cup of coffee in the morning. Everything is possible in the morning.

Today I have to go over to Nancy's and run quicken, than off to the shop to see if anythings need to be done.

Well I just woke Joe, and got him off to work. So now it is time for me to check face book and find out where today is going to take me.

The Anger

On Sept. 1st 2011, I was kind of forced to resign from my job of 10 years.  I like to call it my early retirement.  I was a little bitter about it and scared about my future.  Lets face it now is not a good time to be unemployed in the U.S.  

I felt very betrayed by a person I thought was a close friend. They could have saved my job at anytime, but chose not too. I really have no one to blame but myself for being loyal to this person. It's funny you know, I thought I had forgiven this person, but as I write this I find that the anger is still there.

I have never told this person and never will. (This person is not a good listener, the type that is only thinking about what they can say next) So maybe if I write it down I can get over it and on to my next adventure!

So here goes

At anytime you could have stepped up to the plate and told Mr. Cappa that you told me to do it. (you knew I would not throw you under the bus without your say so)

You strung me along with this new shop, that I was going to help you build. Knowing full well you weren't going to keep any of your promises. (my fault again because after being with you for 10 years I should have known)

Did you every stop and think about what I was losing by protecting you? Your retirement is in the bag, mine is not. So thank you for your hand out and helping me to feel small.

You can put any kind of spin on this that you want, but everyone who was there knows the truth and you can't change that. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

Now I have said it, put it out there and it is time for me to move on. My life is an adventure full of ups and downs.