Breaking Through, Travelling On

Goldiegirl

Stamps will sell on eBay. My dad used to collect first day covers and random stamps off envelopes. I had about 30 years worth - in the end I put them on eBay as a job lot, and got a reasonable sum for them.


We still have Mr Goldie's stamp albums from the 50's and 60's, but are holding on to them for now, but maybe we'll sell in future if we ever need more downsizing


That retailer I did a link to is a stamp dealer, and the stamps in the lots are all ones he wasn't able to sell to collectors. I've had beautiful stamps in the lots that I've bought - from the 70's onwards. Almost too nice to use, but I didn't want to start another collection!

Karmacat

I'm done now, on collecting stamps, Goldie, no more - and no more holding on, either, hoping that the sale price will be worth selling.

I want to focus on the writing as an income method, and I can't do that if I'm faffing about with ebay sales indefinitely. There's also a sense of just not feeling patient enough I just can't hack the level of detail involved in selling them.

MCI - yes, it was lovely, thanks, I confess I had loooong naps on Saturday and Sunday and I've accidentally done 4 hours work today, not 3 hours. I'll be adjusting the week overall so I don't do extra, I'm not up for that. A bit tricky though!

This is week 8! And this was the busiest day of week 8! :j

beanielou

Yah for week 8

Karmacat

Morning! Just re-read Goldie's post, and I'd completely not seen the bit about a job lot I could certainly do that.

Right, just got one hour phone work today - determined not to let it become 1.5 hours :cool: and need to check banking before that. Otherwise, its about carrying on with the existing list, and catching up on the social media support for the blogs.


ETA - banking is good

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Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning, catching up with diaries Karmacat and can't believe next month you're retiring. That has flown by.

We start decluttering the loft in August - with the intention now, of nothing going back up :eek::eek:

I hadn't thought of selling stamps and I know Mr T has books of them up in the loft. May have to ask him how attached he is to them

Hope all is going well with you.

Best wishes Tilly xxx

Goldiegirl

Job lots are the way to go to sell a lot of things quickly.

I'm also done with micromanaging very small things for sale on eBay.

If we have any household oddments or clothes to sell I will list them on eBay, and my friend from time to time still has a few bits to sell.

But apart from that my eBay days are done. I was just saying to Mr Goldie the other day, it's nice to be liberated from the tyranny of eBaying!

Oh, and kick me now, I've just put a comment on the SHTF thread!:eek:

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

Job lots are the way to go to sell a lot of things quickly.

I'm also done with micromanaging very small things for sale on eBay.

If we have any household oddments or clothes to sell I will list them on eBay, and my friend from time to time still has a few bits to sell.

But apart from that my eBay days are done. I was just saying to Mr Goldie the other day, it's nice to be liberated from the tyranny of eBaying!

Oh, and kick me now, I've just put a comment on the SHTF thread!:eek:

I'm with you on the eBay situation, Goldiegirl:T. I just can't find any enthusiasm for it these days somehow:(

Pardon my ignorance:o but what's the SHTF thread?

Karmacat

Tilly hi :wave: Yes, its at the end of next month, I'm so excited I can't wait :rotfl: its definitely Big Kid time.

Goldie - those are perfect terms about ebay, job lots vs. micromanaging thank you :j

But oh dear, am I going to have to peek at the screen between my fingers :grouphug: I hope not! I was tempted to agree with the too much politics, but I knew I'd go into the politics, iyswim, so I decided to say nowt

ETA - I wrote two posts! This is why I don't contribute to those sorts of discussions, they take up too much of my head space. I deleted the posts because Mary has started a new thread, and one of mine was in the way of people noticing her redirection
**phew a close shave** must never never never do the politics thing online, *so* badly burned too ... see you on the other side, though, Goldie

CBC - :hello: the SHTF thread is on Old Style on here, and SHTF is about the brown stuff hitting the fan - it can be a personal thing like a bereavement or a burst water main, but it came from the collapse of society :eek::whistle: :rotfl: as we know it. My Getting Home book was a travel book for SHTF I've *used* two preps in my life - a micro Phillips screwdriver, which helped when my sister's glasses fell apart on holiday, and a tiny little knife I have that levered a sycamore seed out from a crack where it was stuck and about to spread roots. No zombies, no aliens, nothing :rotfl: aliens could be interesting, you never know.

Right, I've done the work phone call, I'm going to have a quick walk round the block and do a bit of the garden.

Hope everyone's set up for a good afternoon

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Goldiegirl

The 'new' thread is already going a bit 'pear-shaped', so I will keep well away for a while.


It's like a dinner party, politics being one of those taboo subjects.


But the current situation has essentially been caused by politics, so it's difficult not to stray onto that subject, when prepping for an uncertain future.


But, on this occasion discretion is the better part of valour, so I'm keeping my head down!

Karmacat

Me too - you nearly sucked me in, you know :eek::kisses3: And I see what you mean. Staying far, far away.

As far as online written stuff, I'm a chatty person, but this is stuff I stay strictly away from nowadays, I got badly, badly burned elsewhere a few years ago, when a mistake I made lit a fire under something very negative, that still has a strong influence on what I write on here

To matters of individual importance, which always end up trumps over mere global importance yet another black bin bag is full of brambles etc. And my scabious lives! And prospers, just! :j:j:j It's hard to describe quite how much I love scabious. I'm very happy

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