About one month ago I listed my extra car for sale. It had been sitting for a very long time, in hopes that I would one day, yes, one day get it fixed and get it running. That day never came, and I changed my mind on the car. My emotional attachment to it has somewhat diminished, and I had grown tired of looking at the car, although I really did love it. It was time to let it go.
The car has been listed as mentioned for about one month, and it I'm not joking, it got 1,618 views online locally. Today I got a phone call from someone once again who came to look in the car. I let him take it for a test drive and he came back and said, "What's the lowest you'll go?" My response was, "What do you offer?" I told him $200 less than my asking price. We agreed in the middle which means I got $100 more than I thought I could get realistically.
So it's Friday late afternoon when this was happening and he said we could go to the bank and get the money. Now, you need to understand that most people didn't have all the cash, so I agreed. We went to the bank he got a Cashier's Check and deposit it into my bank account and I gave him the title. We did all the other fine detail paperwork and he was happy to have the car.
He's happy, I'm happy, and there's an extra space in the driveway and I don't have to dread looking at the car every single day. That clutter is gone. What a relief! I started thinking that I was never going to get rid of it.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Dust = sneezing, or does it?
One of the reasons I shouldn't collect clutter is because clutter collects dust. Dust makes me ill. All day yesterday and today I've been sneezing so much and my nose won't stop running. The truth is, I don't know if it is the dust, or if I've been wearing myself out and I have a slight cold.
The good news is that I made so much progress in my inventory room that I feel a lot better about it. I found items I didn't know I had, that will hopefully be profitable. On the other hand, I have to throw some things out because they are past their dates and I can no longer sell them.
I plan to spend some time working on getting items listed on eBay and Amazon so I can clear some space. Well, I've already cleared enough space so I can actually SIT in my office/inventory room, and that's not all, there are A FEW PLACES where I can sit! Now that's progress!
I won't be working on this room tonight because I have plans to be with my lovely BF. Is it bad that I almost like him to work more so I have time to get things done?
The good news is that I made so much progress in my inventory room that I feel a lot better about it. I found items I didn't know I had, that will hopefully be profitable. On the other hand, I have to throw some things out because they are past their dates and I can no longer sell them.
I plan to spend some time working on getting items listed on eBay and Amazon so I can clear some space. Well, I've already cleared enough space so I can actually SIT in my office/inventory room, and that's not all, there are A FEW PLACES where I can sit! Now that's progress!
I won't be working on this room tonight because I have plans to be with my lovely BF. Is it bad that I almost like him to work more so I have time to get things done?
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Inventory
My room exploded!! In a good way though. Not my bedroom, but the room I use for my ecommerce inventory.
Being that it is a new year, I have to know where my inventory stands for tax purposes. Let's be honest here, my inventory room is out of order, cluttered, and shared with my mother's belongings. Therefore, if you can imagine, it's quite full and I'm not able to take a proper inventory, let alone walk!
The last two nights after work, I have spent several hours working on emptying the room so that I can start almost from scratch. Although this sounded like a good idea, I ran out of room a short while after starting. The hallway was overflowing with product, my bedroom is hardly walkable, and I had to climb over things and try not to knock things off the shelves!
What I decided to do was to empty one bookcase I use for shelves, clean it, and start putting things back on it. What have I learned the hard way? Liquids on the bottom! When I restocked the shelves, all light and non liquid items are on the top shelves. They aren't organized by category, but at least they are on the shelves grouped together.
Still...I don't have enough room! What was the solution? Remove many of my mother's belongings from the room to free up the space. She wasn't too keen on this because that means more work for her to try and figure out where to put this extra stuff that she hasn't seen in several years. Where did she put it? Right by all the stuff I was trying to organize and get rid of in the basement! Ugh!! I told her that she is causing more work this way, but, what to do?
Last night I worked about 5 hours, and got quite a bit done, actually I'm pretty close to being finished, at least with the organization part of it. So many of my mother's things were taken out and this gave me more room to organize and see what I have so I can sell it!
After this tiring project, I will have to go in and type out what I have and figure the cost of it all. Not fun, but it's the cost of doing business and running it alone.
Clutter, clutter...oh how you make me shudder!
Being that it is a new year, I have to know where my inventory stands for tax purposes. Let's be honest here, my inventory room is out of order, cluttered, and shared with my mother's belongings. Therefore, if you can imagine, it's quite full and I'm not able to take a proper inventory, let alone walk!
The last two nights after work, I have spent several hours working on emptying the room so that I can start almost from scratch. Although this sounded like a good idea, I ran out of room a short while after starting. The hallway was overflowing with product, my bedroom is hardly walkable, and I had to climb over things and try not to knock things off the shelves!
What I decided to do was to empty one bookcase I use for shelves, clean it, and start putting things back on it. What have I learned the hard way? Liquids on the bottom! When I restocked the shelves, all light and non liquid items are on the top shelves. They aren't organized by category, but at least they are on the shelves grouped together.
Still...I don't have enough room! What was the solution? Remove many of my mother's belongings from the room to free up the space. She wasn't too keen on this because that means more work for her to try and figure out where to put this extra stuff that she hasn't seen in several years. Where did she put it? Right by all the stuff I was trying to organize and get rid of in the basement! Ugh!! I told her that she is causing more work this way, but, what to do?
Last night I worked about 5 hours, and got quite a bit done, actually I'm pretty close to being finished, at least with the organization part of it. So many of my mother's things were taken out and this gave me more room to organize and see what I have so I can sell it!
After this tiring project, I will have to go in and type out what I have and figure the cost of it all. Not fun, but it's the cost of doing business and running it alone.
Clutter, clutter...oh how you make me shudder!
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