This week started off slow as far as eBay sales were concerned but finished at $148.98, which is not bad at all. I have one other item that I am expecting payment for but the buyer said she cannot pay for it until late this coming week so I cannot count that in this week's total.
This extra cash is coming in very handy.
I spent a fair amount of money today.
Tuesday night I got home from work and my power had been out and that seemed to have zapped my digital cable box as it was dead and could not be resuscitated no matter how hard tech support tried. It must have been fried by a power surge as it was not plugged into a surge protector.
So, today I purchased a new HDPVR for $312.90 including tax. While this was totally unexpected, I can use my eBay sales to cover the cost. I don't go out much to the movies or other recreational things like that that cost money as I am happy to spend quiet evenings at home watching a very few select shows, which I am happy to watch over and over.
On occasion I would still record the odd thing on tape but I also just discovered this month that my VCR only went up to 2010 so it is not useful for timed recording any longer. So, all in all, I think having a PVR will be really useful for me and is a justifiable, if not necessary to get through life, expense.
I also spent $20.55 on mailing supplies for my eBay items, gum, a couple small items for a gift exchange and Static Guard at London Drugs.
I've been reading so much on various blogs and on a forum I frequent about the great deals people find at Goodwill and other thrift or consignment stores.
My idea of enjoyable shopping is not having to dig though racks upon racks of clothing to see what might be worthwhile. I don't even like doing that at Winners (Canadian arm of TJMaxx) with new merchandise (I will look at Winners for shoes and bags). The few times I have looked at Goodwill or Value Village I just have not found anything I would wear and found it to be a total waste of time. Given the number of hours I put in between my two jobs (I'm at my part-time job right now) my free time is very precious to me.
I have found the odd thing at consignment stores but, again, it is the having to dig through everything that I really dislike.
I'd love to be able to find a great dress or skirt for $3, $5 or $8 but that just never happens. Maybe if I looked at least once per week I would find something but I just don't have that kind of time.
I have this weekend off from my part-time job and live 5 minutes from both Value Village and Goodwill. Since last weekend I cleaned out my drawers and have some items to donate, I am resolved to go and give it another chance in both stores to see if I can find anything worthwhile. It would be great to be pleasantly surprised.
Ahhh, CrockPots make life so much easier. Tomorrow's dinner - lemon herb chicken - is in the fridge ready to cook on low all day tomorrow. I think I will have it with couscous and a salad.
I am very pleased with my eBay sales this week. They are a whopping $286.95.
Listing on eBay can be time consuming and I have been out and about all day driving around in the snow - it has not stopped snowing in 9 days - and now that I am finally home and the day is practically over, I do not feel like listing items on eBay. So I may not get items listed this week. We'll have to see how I feel tomorrow night after work.
I love getting bonus money coming into the house. The items I've been selling have, for the most part, just been things around the house that I have not been using, many of which I received for free.
Using some of the money from my recent eBay sales, I purchased a CrockPot, which I posted about earlier, and today I purchased a humidifier as my house is so very dry with the furnace running so often.
It's great to get some needed household items, not have them cost me anything and still have plenty of 'free' cash left over to put toward the car I recently bought.
The CrockPot I wrote about yesterday that was on LD's website for $49.99 was on sale in store for $29.99. That is an amazing deal for a 7qt, programmable CrockPot with auto warming mode with BONUS Little Dipper. I was thrilled as I was fully prepared to pay the $49.99. This was paid for by items I had around the house collecting dust that I sold on eBay.
My eBay sales for this week are doing very, very well as another item sold today and I look forward to posting my sales total on Sunday.
I already know that I need easy dinner solutions due to my busy schedule and I have been using my slow cooker a bit but not nearly to its potential.
I have been reading A Year of Slow Cooking and am so inspired. I have printed out a several recipes and have a chicken thawing in the fridge to turn into lemon herb chicken this weekend.
London Drugs has a programmable 7 quart CrockPot with a bonus Little Dipper on sale right now for $49.99 so I am going to take some of my ebay sales money and pick one up as I don't have anything small enough to make dips and the CrockPot I do have is not programmable and does not have a "warm" setting.
When I post my ebay sales, I only include items that have been paid for. My mid-week ebay sales from items I listed on Sunday are at $216.96 so this is already a great ebay week. I hope to hit the $250 mark by week's end.
I have been really busy this week as I covered an extra part time shift on Monday, worked my own part time shift on Tuesday and had a board meeting tonight. Due to being so busy all three nights so far, I did not have a chance to cook dinners so ended up buying lunch both yesterday and today and probably will again tomorrow unless I find something in the cupboard to take for lunch as everything else is frozen. Actually, I think I have one of those microwaveable rice packages at work so could have that with some fruit or yogurt for lunch tomorrow and save some cash. I may even have one of those small tins of flavoured tuna, which would go great with crackers.
I think I mentioned some time back that I was planning to clean out my clutter and sell as much as possible on ebay.
I have been doing that fairly regularly for years but am now again really concentrating on decluttering and bringing extra cash in to the bank account.
It is amazing how much "stuff" one person can accumulate. I listed a number of things on ebay this past week and my sales for the week are $170.15.
I will be listing more items today.
