Enough is enough - the great declutter

REDMADCURLS

Is it me or is ebay slow tonight - good weather is not good for sales!!!

3/17 - £30.49 - only one bid today!!!!!!!!

RMC

tattycath

I only had a couple finish tonight, I bought an item about a month ago for a quid and sold it for nearly £38!!!!! So I'm well impressed!!!
Well done everyone.
Went to another car boot this morning and bought about 10 items... I'l let you know how I get on with them if and when I decided I can bear to part with them. lol

chardonnay_2

well done tattycath- was it a car boot find? care to share what it was ?

thought i'd share how i decluttered our living room. well our ds-sons friend was coming over and i didn't want him to see the mess, so i grabbed a few bag for life's and filled them with everything that didn't belong in the room. this made it much easier to then relocate anything meant for the room & clean the room. later, while the boys were playing noisily!, i escaped to my room & i sorted through all the 3 bags and 2 baskets and found a home for everything i was keeping:j .

REDMADCURLS

All finished - 11 items sold - £61.50 - thats good ratio for me - lots didnt sell but some relisted already - another load from our two day garage declutter (and we still havent finished!!!) so need to do the boring bit and take some photos.

Chardonnay - great idea, thought I was the only one who had to tidy for visitors coming! I look forward to the day, people phone and I dont lose a stone having to run around tidying before they get here! I know a woman who puts all the 'should not be in this room' stuff in a basket. The basket is binned each Saturday at 1pm - if you want the stuff you need to take it out before the deadline. It worked wonders with her teenagers, week 3 an empty basket was waiting for her at 1pm!!!

Tattycath - just dying to know what you sold, very nosy arent I (sorry).

RMC

tattycath

It was a porcelain bird, I actually found it in a charity shop!!! I was pretty amazed when I looked at it. The best bit is that I had asked to see a porcelain trio, and it wasn't what I thought it was, so I felt a bit like I should show an interest in something else, then I saw the bird figurine and couldn't believe my luck when I recognised the make on the base. I don't know how I managed to hide my surprise when the assistant told me it was only £1, I kept rechecking it for invisible repairs and couldn't believe it was in perfect condition.
I do find some stuff at car boots that I decide to resell and make money on. The first decent sale I made on ebay over 5 years ago was a musical figurine. I found it at a car boot sale and paid 10pence for it-it was of no particular make and I sold it for £12.99-good profit!!! It played a Mary Hopkin track-those were the days, and I described it as being musical-though didn't say that after a few repeats it irritates the s**t out of you and I didn't say what the song was either-I didn't lie I was just a bit vague. The buyer was delighted. lol

REDMADCURLS

tattycath wrote: »

It was a porcelain bird, I actually found it in a charity shop!!! I was pretty amazed when I looked at it. The best bit is that I had asked to see a porcelain trio, and it wasn't what I thought it was, so I felt a bit like I should show an interest in something else, then I saw the bird figurine and couldn't believe my luck when I recognised the make on the base. I don't know how I managed to hide my surprise when the assistant told me it was only £1, I kept rechecking it for invisible repairs and couldn't believe it was in perfect condition.
I do find some stuff at car boots that I decide to resell and make money on. The first decent sale I made on ebay over 5 years ago was a musical figurine. I found it at a car boot sale and paid 10pence for it-it was of no particular make and I sold it for £12.99-good profit!!! It played a Mary Hopkin track-those were the days, and I described it as being musical-though didn't say that after a few repeats it irritates the s**t out of you and I didn't say what the song was either-I didn't lie I was just a bit vague. The buyer was delighted. lol

Well done you - I never have been that lucky - at the start of ebay career got some great prices but now I realise it was because I was selling my best stuff - now I am down to the dregs and so income not so good - my friend is the charity shop £1 rail queen - she has found amazing stuff there and sold it for great profit - naughty girl!

tattycath

Sometimes, I'm not so lucky and end up buying a crock of s**t!!! but the good outweighs the bad-touch wood.
By the way, whenever we have visitors we do a mad dash tidy up just prior to their arrival!!!

Clutterfree

Seems like we've all had Ebay items ending tonight.

IN:
Lego - 9yo got it at a car boot
2 Delphiniums

OUT:
Nothing

EBAY:
Well all 7 items sold for a total of £102.98 :eek:
I am thrilled as that will go a long way towards a trampoline for the boys. :j
Have a further 3 items due to end next Sunday.
Bids on 1 item totalling £2.99 and 21 watchers. :T
Can't wait for the Ebayers to pic up their purchases as they are all large items.

So come on Tattycath - what was it????? Oops you've just said!
I was chuffed that I sold 2 childrens toys that I bought secondhand 10 years ago. I bought them for £15 and sold them for £27! Not bad as my 2 boys got years of use from them too!

angelavdavis

Hi Clutterfree, like you I have £100 for 7 bids.

No serious bids for MBA materials, the sun must have put people off!!

Look like most of the wedding stuff has gone though which is good.

gingababe

Really need to jump on this declutter thread enough is enough, I just don't know where to start... its that bad all over... any hints & tips would be appreciated.