June 2010, 80 payments to go............

tootallulah

NSD yesterday - oh rare joy.

Pay day on Thursday so that will be the start of SUPERFRUGALITY ready for leaving work. I have my pension estimate through now and I will have £1800 per month to live on if I retire at Christmas, yes the date is moving closer I seem to have lost the desire to carry on , it is most odd.

I will not apply for the job I was head hunted for earlier in the week, when I saw the details it was not that interesting. If I go for a job it will be one I really, really want. So I pay everything except £1800 off the mortgage and I will see what it is really like to budget properly.

I have listed 100 items on Ebay, it is a good start and my theory is I just need to get going. It was a pain but not too much of a pain. My theory is list everything twice and if they don't sell then it is charity shop time. Does that feel right? The biggest shock was how little impact the listing of "treasured items" (tat) had on the huge number of boxes labelled Ebay. It could be my next career!

museumworker

OMG 100 items :eek::eek: Well done toots, I have NEVER managed more than about 10 without losing the will to live :T!

What price have you started them at? Listing at 99p is free, so I tend to start low value items at that. The really high value items I wait for a free listing day, there tends to be one or two a month. Wishing you luck with the ebay sales, even if you only make a pound or two on each item you'll have £100-200 to pay off the mortgage :j!

Yes, absolutely adore Mad Men, although only got into it series 3. So watched series 3 and 4, now have boxset of 1 and 2, so am totally confused about plot line and what happened in what series :rotfl:! At least is an excuse to watch it all again. And the outfits are my favourite bit too .

tootallulah

Hi MW, good to see you. I have lots of little bids on my items. I will definitely get more than £150 and that is on over 50 items. I haven't thought this through the PO will go mad when I arrive with all those parcels.......still £150 and a load of Lovely items (lot of tat) out of the door.

Yesterday, coffee £2.10. Corporate dinner tonight, tomorrow and Friday, what's wrong with these people don't they have homes?

gallygirl

If I am selling lots of low cost items and am not too fussed about proof of posting then I do my postage online with Royal Mail. You can print out the labels and parcel everything up then just drop off at PO. You can also print off proof of postage for the PO to stamp but I think it prints one per item which is a bit OTT - don't know why they can't do it on a list,but even doing proof of postage this way would still be a lot easier for the PO.

Well done on getting going :T

tootallulah

Breakfast £10. Posh dinner 1 done, getting ready for PD 2 now. Ebay jiggling along merrily over £200 now so that is worth it for a days work. I am really looking forward to getting this week over.

tootallulah

I have a meeting in Berlin today so here i am waiting for a cab to collect me for the airport at 3.30 in the morning, mad!

Just two more long days and then it is the week-end, lovely.

greent

Just popped in to catch up on your diary - glad to hear you've finally succeeded with a seller's account on ebay - and what a fantastic start to your ebaying!!

tootallulah

My first ever lot ebay stuff is over and I have sold EVERYTHING, it is completely unbelievable beginners luck, after fees I will have made just over £500. I did all the parcels in the early hours of Saturday and was at the PO at 9 a.m they we nice about it and just laughed. They sent me away for an hour and I paid them when I got back, easy peasy. That would never have happened in my London Post Office. I have sent the money straight to the builder so that he will come back and do the final bits on my house the week after next which will be brilliant. It has taken six months but now it is nearly all done.

It was a beautiful week-end and now I am on the train ready for the week ahead, or rather the four and a half days that are left as I am going to take half a day on Friday to take account of all the corporate stuff that I did last week in my own time. My garden is looking really wonderful, the hollyhocks that I grew from seed are in full flower and everything is looking great.

Spending this week-end: fruit and veg £12, iron £20, ironing board cover, seeds and compost £7.84.

museumworker

Wow! What an impressive total - well done :T:T:T. Have you more to sell? And what sold well/not so well? You are officially an ebay pro now, well in my eyes at least .

You must be so pleased to have the end of the works in sight. We are still snagging on the loft, and that started 9 months ago! Glad to hear you're enjoying the house and garden, it sounds lovely *makes mental note to sow hollyhocks next year*

tootallulah

HI MW, sow hollyhock seeds now and then plant the little plants in September/October they are perennials and will flower next summer. They just look like England.

Everything I sold was clothes, good makes for the larger woman: James Lakeland, Marina Rinaldi etc a few pieces had never been worn and they were all summer stuff. I have suitcases full of stuff, I think that I used to have a bit of a shopping obsession it made me be a bit anxious when I realised how much I had, no wonder I still have a mortgage.

I used to travel a lot in the US when it was $2+ to the £ and bought clothes. Also I have dropped a dress size so everything size 22 and above that is a summer thing has gone. In September I will do another marathon of winter stuff. I have 26 pairs of plain black trousers that are too big......................Anyway what happened in the past happened let's just get rid of it all now. The plus of shopping obsession is that I have many clothes in every size down to 16, except for a wintercoat I should be OK for the rest of the year. The mad thing is that I can sew and I have enough fabric to open a shop, my plan is to definitely make more when I don't need formal stuff for work.