It's been a while since I've posted anything to this blog. There are the usual reasons -- life and all of its subtle intricacies getting in the way, the summer heat, the feeling that I need to concentrate on selling my 'stock' before acquiring more... therefore, aliens.
The day job and parenting had made it a bit more difficult to hit the various garage sales during those prime hours of early Friday and Saturday mornings. The window of "relative comfort" is a thin line now; the Texan sun turns the air muggy and thick within a few hours of its daily rising. Add to this, a few listings that I thought would sell passing by their week without much activity and this made for a more lethargic scavenger.
Remember the lesson: if not now, it will eventually. I recently watched a documentary on the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 30's, the mentality of those sun-wrinkled, wind-whipped farmers who year after year tried to raise crops in the growing desertification. In moments when I step unsure, I try to remember those brave folks and continue on.
"I should probably list some stuff." Oh, the agony... the effort! {Click! Relist.}
I go back to concentrating on life until I start hearing my phone chirping happily, your item has sold!
Excellent. Goodbye, Spock! Goodbye, Bull's Championship Pin Set! Goodbye, Choose Your Own Adventure #1! So long, Fleetwood Mac albums!
...hmpf, you're still here, Kasparov Chess Trainer. That's fine, I kind of didn't wanna sell you anyway!
At this point, I've nearly broken even -- I've sold enough on eBay to cover the cost of purchasing all these things that are stacked ever so neatly around my office.
Ka-ching! Chet Atkins Reel-to-reel? Really? Huh. Make that I have broken even. From here on out, it's profit. Lovely, filthy lucre. I still have a lot of "stock" left. I just need to list it.
For a laugh, I list the sets of novelizations for "Young & Restless", "As The World Turns" and "Guiding Light". Two of the sets get bids within a day. ...the sets I fished out of a box at a garage sale marked "free".
Pure gravy on these bad boys. I am happier than Buddha, and Buddha's usually pretty damn chipper.
So, the lesson is "patience, grasshopper". Patience and perseverance wins the hour.
Hopefully I can sell of enough of my stock to give me a nice little fistful of greenbacks so I can go out and start hunting again...
...when the weather gets a bit less oven-bakey, that is.
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