Vintage Vera Neuman Striped Linen Napkins (SOLD)
I've begun to make a minute dent in the amount of items I've been storing in my studio forever. I estimate that I have been collecting items for at least a minimum of twenty years. Every time I collected something I would reason that I was buying it to either use in some sewing/crafting project or to resell it. Of course it hasn't been until recently that I've begun to start going through and listing these items.
Reselling is a slow process sometimes, but it's been good. I do have to chuckle however at the circuit these items will take through the house on the way to listing them. They come out of my basement studio, at which time they are inspected, ironed and measured. They then go upstairs to a front room with good sunlight and a picture is taken of the item, and all the other items in the stack of items I plan to list. The camera and items then go up another floor to the computer room, where the camera is downloaded and the items are placed on a shelf until listing time. Pictures are edited and saved to a disc/thumb drive. Once I begin to list a bring the stack over to the computer desk, list it on Etsy, place it in a bag, close it and stick the inventory number sticker on the items. Then I complete the circle by taking it back to the basement studio, and storing it neatly in baskets on shelves, which are organized by type of item.
This process, depending on the amount of items, can take a day, or sometimes upwards of a week. Slow and steady wins the race right? Anyways, within the last three weeks I've made enough money to almost completely pay off my personal line of credit, which hasn't happened before ever. To those of you who are thinking about resale, I say be patient! It's an incredible amount of hard work. I am lucky only in the fact that I already have a house full of stuff that been sitting around. Hunting for items can be fun, but daunting. Personally I enjoy that part the most (obviously or I wouldn't have a house full of stuff). But if you can stick with it, and are diligent and set goals, oh yeah, and have a decent sense of how to time manage, there are opportunities to make a little money.
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Do you think that the process needs some rethinking? I got tired just reading this post. Congrats on all the sales and keep on going.
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