Earning Money on eBay!

I wish that I lived closer to more shopping areas. Everything from the house is just annoying to get to, I have 2 freeways that I'd have to get on + the peanut gallery ("Are we there/done yet?") + angry drivers. No thank you. 

For now, I guess I will be working on just getting rid of the things that we don't need anymore in the house prior to moving cross country again. I really don't want to pack and move 5 extra boxes of stuff we don't need anymore, lol.

I have been eBay-ing pretty steadily since May this year, and it's doing all right for being just a way to sell out the items we don't need. I wish I could make more though, but to do that I'd have to brave the streets of tailgating drivers and work my way through the mall crowds. I guess I'll have to set that plan aside for when we move back to Texas, hopefully near the Galleria in Dallas and other malls so I can go shopping for great deals. 

Here's to hoping that I can earn a bit of good money for Christmas presents the rest this year.

I've gone and dug up the little cute stuffed animals that the kids don't care to play with anymore to incorporate into my ebay selling. They'll be my little mascots posing in my photos.

Aren't they adorable? Each one is for each person in the family (not counting the several hamsters we have, haha) I know it's probably a dead giveaway that I'm a female and a bit of a child at heart! 

I think there's a good number of things I need to do still to feel more professional in terms of being a buyer/seller. I do package all my items really well; Tissue paper, bubble wrap, extra protection with plastic baggies, etc. I think I need a few more things though, to make my stuff stand out. Maybe some cute ribboning for clothing items and smaller makeup items. 

I do take pride in my items being nicely cared for during packaging though, I've bought some stuff on eBay that was just awful in terms of the way that the seller wrapped it. I've gotten stuff in a beat up check box with globs of tape, things wrapped in grocery ads (that's a big no-no! The ink can ruin your item!)

I think I'll have to make a separate post on do's and don'ts for eBaying. There's a lot of people that just don't seem to care because the majority of items being sold are used. That doesn't mean that you can't care for it before it is shipped to a new home. I'm all for recycling packaging, I do it sometimes if the shipping box that I've received some retail orders from isn't badly beaten up, or re-using packaging materials like the foam that cushions your items. But really, people sticking a label on an old cereal box to ship in is just plain awful and lazy. 

And on that note, I will be off to work on a few more posts throughout the day for the next week's auction listings.