The Weight of Money

The partner has become an ebaying machine. All his free time is spent gathering items, taking pictures, doing research, and posting auctions. I feel inspired. I feel excited. Stuff is leaving our lives and that money is comingit. Good.

I want to join him, but I can’t find things to sell. So, I started browsing through listings to hopefully spark some ideas on things that I could sell. I continued searching for items and found something – a sticker/laminate/magnet maker, and I bought it. Wait!!! That wasn’t the plan. I wasn’t supposed to be buying things off ebay. Bad.

In an attempt to make up for the $50 purchase, I decided to kick up my research and committed to list something right away. Later that week, I stopped at the thrift store to find a winter coat – it is starting to get cold. Instead of a coat for myself, I found a beautiful fur coat for $25. “Oh look, something for ebay – maybe.”

While chatting with the partner about getting it listed, I continued browsing the auctions and found some more auctions that looked interesting. I bid and lost. I bid again and lost. Rinse, repeat. This should have stopped there, but no, I bid on a couple other stamps in order to combine shipping and “increase my ebay feedback.” Sigh.

So now, I’m in the hole about $90 to ebay and still haven’t listed anything. I’ve got some serious work to do in order to make that amount back. But, I’m sure I can do it, I think. I’m hoping the coat will sell for at least $40 and I’m gonna clean out some old clothes for a few dollars here and there and, just maybe, I can get my money back by the end of the month.

In the meantime, the partner keeps pulling in money. Now, as long I spend less than he brings in, we’re doing good.  Hopefully we’ll be tracking ebay income/expenses next month.

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