posted on July 5, 2005 08:42:31 AM new
I am having such a hard time with analysis paralysis right now. I don't know why either! It used to be that I used to know exactly what to put up for auction and what to put into my store. Now, though, I can't seem to make up my mind because so many odd things are bid-selling for much higher and the good things that used to sell high aren't bringing in the prices that they used to. I just never know where to put my things.
Another goofy problem that I'm having is letting go of my goodies! I pick something up to list and say "oh no! I can't sell that one!"
UGH! Anyone else going through these goofy mind-games?
posted on July 5, 2005 09:28:47 AM new
Bizzy I think that is the problem with all of us, that is why we have so many items to list. When I go to list a piece of jewelry that I know will sell I just hate to sell it because I like it. You know you can only wear so much jewelry and I wear next to none but I have a jewelry box full.
Same with the scarfs which I haven't sold yet because I hate to get rid of them. I have a plan but I just can't get into it.
I think it is a dilemma that most face.
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posted on July 5, 2005 09:37:46 AM new
pack rat here. that's how i was afflicted with postcarditis, was starting to collect the things when i was six and refusing to ever part with one! i STILL have the ones i collected when i was six.
posted on July 5, 2005 11:58:38 AM new
I sell books, so have the same temptation. However, "letting go" is a very good thing to practice regularly. Very therapeutic.
I am a big believer in not becoming attached to material things. The fact that most of the world doesn't feel that way is what provides me with quite a nice second income.
posted on July 5, 2005 03:31:17 PM new
I know what you mean! I too have that problem right now, knowing how much work I have to go through to list an item and thinking it might not even sell. Discouraging.
And with our old aunt's costume jewelry, when something I've listed that I think is plug-ugly starts to get good bids, it's suddenly looking better and better to me and I find myself wondering if I should have kept it instead! I too don't wear much jewelry at all--but I like to get it out occasionally and "play" with it, feel it, imagine how it would look if I were a different kind of woman with different and more formal clothing tastes. . . .
posted on July 5, 2005 04:04:08 PM new
Want a cure for hording? Move twice in one year. You will never look at "Stuff" the same again. Suddenly it is no longer something that you might wear, read, look back on, someday. It's something that you might have to pack, move, unpack and find new place for someday.
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No, I'm saying -- I'm merely -- I'm saying what I'm saying. I don't know why I'm always having people say, are you trying to say -- you know what you can do if you want to know what I'm saying is listen to what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I said ...
posted on July 5, 2005 04:09:57 PM new
LOL ... Funny you should say that Fenix! I just moved and packing up all of the patterns (I literally have 10's of thousands!), I was regretting not selling them.
For some reason, I *think* that I have 26 hands and crochet all of this stuff! Even with 26 hands, I could never crochet it all!
I have to stop this mentality of "no, I can't sell that ... I may want to make it" and just list the darn stuff!
posted on July 5, 2005 04:25:49 PM new
D - If you really think that you might want to make it some day... scan it and keep a copy for yourself, or photocopy it. Of course my ADD brain says scan everything, recreate all of the books as PDFs and sell them as CDs once the copyright expires and they become public domain.
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No, I'm saying -- I'm merely -- I'm saying what I'm saying. I don't know why I'm always having people say, are you trying to say -- you know what you can do if you want to know what I'm saying is listen to what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I said ...
- Ann Coulter
[ edited by fenix03 on Jul 5, 2005 04:26 PM ]
posted on July 5, 2005 04:38:21 PM new
My squirrel or empty cupboard mania -- for some reason I seem to think that the world will run out of antiques one of these days and I have to buy NOW! and fill said cupboards -- has peaked. I'm out of room. Truly.
So? So paralysis has set in here too ... haven't done a thing about listing in days except throw up my hands and walk away. Too much. Too many decisions. That, dear vendio-ites, is why you're reading this.
posted on July 5, 2005 04:47:23 PM new
I am the worst with books because I always think, "well, I'd like to read them before I sell them." The way its going now, I barely get to read Sunday's paper. Today is Tuesday and still it sits there.....
But hopefully tonight I will skim it and then its gone...it drives the hubby nuts - he wants the papers out of here...but I know I will have missed something important.
posted on July 5, 2005 04:52:21 PM new
Sadly, Fenix, I have done that! I have literally thousands of patterns scanned and burned into CDs for the future (so that I can make them and not sell them). I can never ever make even what I have saved!
I think there is (or should be) a new mental illness for those of us, EBAYERS, with this perpetual problem. Perhaps it should be termed "Ebay-itis".
I would bet those of us on Vendio, who have already admitted to our problem, are just a very small portion of the real ebayers afflicted with "Ebay-itis".
Really, because if we sell this wonderful "widget", what if ... ????
posted on July 5, 2005 04:56:53 PM new
dbl, I have that problem with decorating books. In the past two weeks I have bought at the GW two hard cover Martha Stewart books. Really nice. One on decorating and the other on holiday entertaining. Then I find books from the 50 & 60's on decorating and lately I have been finding the books by Ty Pennington. I know I could get a couple of bucks for them but if I get to sit down a minute at night after baby sitting two youngens they are interesting to look at. By that time my attention span is gone and these books do wonders to clear the brain. Oh well I need to find a good flea market and a husband willing to move the stuff and I am sure it would be gone.
posted on July 5, 2005 05:24:44 PM new
Libra,,,, round these hare parts we's refer to Goldenwest College swapmeet as GW,,,,fer a second there I thought,,,,,,then,,,,,I realized, Good Will.....
I quess the world Taint as small as I wuz thinkin'..
Space is Valuable. Dump it ALL at the Swap and start over.
posted on July 5, 2005 05:31:13 PM new
Hey, Jack! Do you go to the Goldenwest swap meet regularly? Our daughter lives in Huntington Beach, and I've passed that swap meet a few times enroute somewhere "more important," with never a chance to check it out. From the main road, it looks like a Gypsy encampment--lots of racks of used clothes. Is there more to it than that?
posted on July 5, 2005 05:53:53 PM new
I have a local charity who has at least 2 yard sales a year. When I get can't get myself in the mood to list, I start boxing things up for them. That either puts me in the mood to list or it makes the pathway in my garage a little wider.
I'm a hopeless pack rat too. And Fenix, I used to move often, but even then, I boxed it up and moved it and would never get around to unboxing it at the new house. Now that has to be a REAL sickness!
Some boxes went unpacked for 12 years, just moved from house to house.
Last summer, when I sold the house, I finally open most of those boxes and had a huge 3 day yard sale. But you still can't run thru my new garage. But wait it gets even better...
Now that my Dad is sick, I have taken over his affairs and have another house full of stuff to get rid off! He lives in KY, so I've been living in my truck camper this summer. In such a small space, its feels good to not have a bunch of stuff in my way, so maybe there is hope. It has put me in the mood to clear out. Each time I walk back into my house I just want to call Goodwill and give everything back to them.
I have a load on my truck right now that will be gone in the morning. Good bye, I will not miss it!
posted on July 5, 2005 06:03:08 PM new
Libra, I know what you mean. Sometimes by the end of the day I am fried but I will leaf through the collectors books or decorating books or even cookbooks and just look at the pictures of tablesettings or whatever! I usually fall asleep very shortly afterwards, but I wonder if that stuff is going in somewhere...lol!
Bizzy, the worst thing is selling something and then months later find you need one and go...I had one and sold it for 5.99!! I did that with a Ice Cream scooper I found..and then thought oh geeze now ya gotta run to walgreens and buy one for yourself! lol!
Jack, when I first heard the term swap meet, I thought the people were talking about a swim meet! - and I was wondering how I lost the conversation to that avenue. Of course, I figured it out but they dont call them that back east!
posted on July 5, 2005 06:04:07 PM new
Road,,,,,,,Next time you better HIT the BRAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and cruise in there, Bring ALOT of Money cause yer gonna be spendin' like CRAZY! And after you clean out that one get back on the freeway NORTH and get off at,,,,,,,,????? Sheesh, I forgot and i do it EVERY weekend,,,,,AH! no,,,,,Anyway,,,,Cypress College Swapmeet! in the City of Cypress ANY yahoo can tell you where it is.....cept this one,,,,??? Insane,,,,,I Can't,,,,,,, remember the STREET!!!!!!! BRING MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lincoln street runs right NEXT to it,,,Lincoln and,,,,,,,,,,,?????? DAMN!!!!!!!!! Hell,,,,,,it's a Major College.....VALLEY VIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What Valley,,,,,ain't no Valley round here BUT that IS the Name of the Street! VALLEY VIEW,,,,,,,,,,
ThEn get ta space R,,,, as in Ronald Reagan,,,,31 as in flavors and ya Found yers Truely,,,just say, is Y2K Jack around....
Space is Valuable. Dump it ALL at the Swap and start over.
posted on July 5, 2005 06:12:51 PM new
I'm definitely a pack rat (note the screen name).
About 10 years ago, I had an auction at my house - to lighten the load for a move. I knew I had a problem when I overheard many people saying that there's no way all that stuff came out of that house - they must have brought it in from someplace else. Not only did it all come out of that house - I still had a semi filled 2 and a partial times to move to the new house.
I watch shows like Clean Sweep and think wouldn't it be great to get rid of a lot of this stuff - but I don't seem to be able to list as quickly as I can buy.
posted on July 5, 2005 08:32:37 PM new
After reading this thread and doing a little thinking. If all of us don't take our treasures to flea markets or swap meets the only people that are going to make any money is eBay.
I am still looking through my decorator books for Ladyjewells (I think it is her) and that 1963 coffee table. Everytime I pick up a 60's book I have to look.
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posted on July 5, 2005 09:44:45 PM new
Jack, I promise to stop at that swap meet if it's going next time I'm in H. Beach. And if I go further, I'll look for you. I've printed out your message here to save for the next trip to the flatlands.
posted on July 5, 2005 10:07:25 PM new
Lib,,,,,,,,Everytime I pick up a 1940's era, I sit and read what it was all about, I hear NOTHING in the swapmeet,,,,just me,,, and the Mag or book.....Ads,,,,stories,,,,Tempis Fugit......
Space is Valuable. Dump it ALL at the Swap and start over.
