Saturday, June 13, 2015

My new hobby......

     I have always liked to go thrifting it just makes me happy. A few months ago I had an idea to start selling some of my finds on ebay. Now do not think I am trying to make a living doing that because that is not the case. It helps me to keep up my thrifting hobby, see I do not use money out of our checking account for my thrift trips I only use money I have made. So if I have no money I do not go thrifting, I also sell things on my local yard sale page but not a lot of my thrifted items, mostly my children's old toys or clothes. What got me started on ebay was finding a box of the fisher price play food at the goodwill it was 3.95 by the time I sold everything my profit was around $40, not bad for a $4 investment. Around the same time I also found a new in package set of sky dancer hair clips from 1995 they cost me .55 after shipping and fees I made $45! Of course because of that I caught the bug and I love looking for my treasures every week.
     It becomes a game for me to see what I can find for the week, since I don't have a smart phone I have to depend on my research and gut to find my items, a lot of the time I am right but sometimes they are duds. For example this week I found some vintage mcnugget kids meal toys, a topper dawn angie doll and a polly pocket compact all for 1.60! I should be able to make a profit of around $20 for those items alone. That is what makes it so fun and addicting I also find things for my children too and this helps to pay for that also. Yard sale season has just started so I am going to try my hand at getting items are yard sales the last few months I had only been finding them at thrift stores. Today I found 2 monster high dolls for .50 a piece with all their clothing and shoes hoping those will be a good find for me, also found a couple more items but those are my best I think.
     I call what I do thrifting but some people call it "picking" not sure if that is what I do since it is more fun and hobby for me not a job. Anyways my favorite place to "pick" is the salvation army in my town. They have the best prices and a lot of the time they have more vintage items than the goodwill. An example of this is about 3 months ago I went in and was looking at the toys for my kids and found some original 80's transformers! They have issues but still they only cost my .25 a piece so I will make some kind of profit from them. I found quite a few other items from the 80's the next couple of weeks (some lady must have cleaned her son's old toys from her attic or garage and donated them). I have not listed any of these items because of doing the research for them but have gotten that taken care of and am ready to take pics and get these guys listed.
     I may do a monthly recap of what my profits are on here if I can actually keep up with everything, but it is summer time so it should be easier to find time. I hope to be able to still go thrifting this summer it was so easy during the school year because 5 days a week I was taking my son to school so one day it was going to the goodwill then another it was going to the salvation army. Now that he isn't in school we will have to make time to do it plus he will be with me so it will make it harder but I plan to get threw it cause I do enjoy it so much! And like I said every stay at home mom needs something they enjoy!

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