Diary of a collectaholic.

I just reread one of my old I have posted on here, it's a couple of years old and it's about one of my first good sales on ebay and how someday there might be a future for me other than my boring job.

Well here I am two years later, good sales are a common occurance although limited at the moment due to a poor market. I'm self employed, I no longer have that rotton job and i'm happier than I have been in years!

What a difference a couple of years can make.

Wow it's been 110 weeks since I was last here. I'm surprised I still exist.
Wish I could figure out how it all worked.

Oh well... see you in another 2 years.

I'm so happy right now. There's only one thing that could have made this day any better and seeing as she's not gonna be home till christmas i guess i'll have to be satisfied with the happyness level i have.

Firstly my almost best friend came home last night. So i'm really stoked i get to spend some time with him. What with pinky being gone i don't really have anyone close here anymore.

Then i checked my ebay auctions and my cruet set jumped $20 while i was at work today!!!

It's now selling for $56 and i only paid $7 for the set myself. Of course i had to find it piece meal but still a profit is a profit.

I'm really happy this glass this is taking off well. I think it could be a great part time business. Maybe next year i'll make it official. Who knows.

Ok gota go do this and that.
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I almost forgot.

Today i became a moderator of Freecycle Sonoma County.
It's a great web site that uses Yahoo groups for each local group. WE each post ads for things we have and things we want and EVERYTHING is FREE!!

NO buying selling bidding bartering a simple i have this does anyone want it does the trick.

You guys should check it out for your local groups.
It's www.freecycle.org and you simply find your local group and join.

It's a wonderful program to keep perfectly useful things OUT of the landfills.


And Mike finally called stupid bugger doesn't have a ride down here. Jeez. I would have picked him up if he'd called me 5 hours ago!!

I just realised that i've got a second bid on my candlewick cruet set. there's still three days to go on the auction so if i'm really lucky people will start to fight over it :)

This makes me happy.

This makes me sad.

I'm STILL waiting for Mike to show up he was supposed to be here four hours ago and he hasn't called or anything.
God damn that man he's not even home yet and we're already having to worry about him.

Oh well someones got to worry about him haven't they.

But i'm amking money! Yay!

So here i sit waiting. As i have been for almost two hours waiting, trying to not worry about why mikes not here yet.
He said he'd be waiting in front of my door when i got home from work but he wasn't here. What do i do? I wait.

Oh what a wonderful morning it is this morning. the sun is shaning that october sunshine that i love so much. The birds are singing and I actually slept! Thats right i slept and slept and slept until i couldn't sleep anymore.

I need to do that every sunday.

So now i'm going to bake up a storm and clean the house at the same time Woo hooo.

Who could ask for a better sunday.

Oh yeah and Ogre Mike gets out today.

Well well well....

it's been a long time since i wend out estate sailing and ran out of money before i ran out of sales. But such was the day and it was meant to be.

I found a gorgeous yellow tidbit that's got a satin finish. I know it was made by the Lancaster Glass Company but i don't know the name of the blank. If it had flowers and petals on it it would be worth a fortune but it doesn't so oh well. It's still really pretty and a steal at just three bucks.

The next sale i found 7 Dogwood salad plates. they're pink and worth about $12 a piece. The lady had them listed at $5 each and i talked her down to four. She just would not do three so i'm not sure i'm quite so happy with the price on those. But i really like that pattern and I dind't want to pass them up so...
This lady also had a LOT of Fire-king mixing bowls which would have been awesome if i'd found them at some other sale. She had them priced at 15 - 20 dolllars.
DUDE! you would have thought i was at an antique show not an estate sale.
Oh well at least i came home with two good finds today.

And i staed within my budget.

Pinky would be so proud!

Ok now i'm off to check out the collectibles sale at the fairgrounds.

Don't worry no spendy spendy.

Oh happy days. My ebay selling is working. It's turning a profit and that is all that matters right now. It gives me something to think about other than my rotton stincking real job and it makes me happy. More to the point it makes me use my brain and no one can tell me what to do escept me. Which is a real change for once.

So a couple of weeks ago a certain person told me i shouldn't buy a bowl i found on ebay because i had been complaining about budget problems the day before.

Logical advice one might say. Of course i'm not one to take logical advice i'm one who follows intuition. So i bought the bowl.

It was a bowl that is worth almost $100 i picked it up for $20 because the person selling it had absolutly no idea what it was.

So i listed it on ebay myself last week with the real name of the pattern in the title and i sat back and watched. I watched my stats as people came a looked. Many people. BUt low and behold last night i didn't sell the bowl :(

But i learn from my mistake. You see people on ebay won't pay for something that starts high. If they bid on it and are outbid a number of times until it is @60 that's ok but putting a first bid on it that high doesn't happen.

So last night i lowered the cost relisted the item and already i have a bidder.

So pinky there you have it it's already selling for twice what i paid for it and i'm sorry i didn't take your advice but sometimes my intuition yells louder.

And my candlewick cruet set has a bid already too so i'm hoping both of them will end up with a bidding war and the price will co up a bit. even if it doesn't i'm making good money on them YAY!!

Yet another uneventful day has passed me by. Work is boring and Slooooooooooooow right now. Not much business means less hours means smaller paycheck. I am not looking forward to payday!

BUt then i come home to my wonderful world of glass. I sold three pieces the other day i'm selling two more and i made a mega find at the thrift store the other day. Oh yeah! spent $4 on two bottles that are worth $55 a piece. I'm gonna make me some money,

Of course i have to wait till tomorrow to list them because it's supposed to be the best day to have an auction end. I guess more people spent thursday nights at home on the computers than any other night of the week. Hence they have nothing to do but browse ebay all evening.

Who comes up with this logic!! I sure as hell don't know but what i do know is i'm giving it a try and so far it's working.

Of course it gets boring waiting a week between listing stuff. But it gives me time to look for new glass and take photos and resize photos and build web pages with photos on. That way i'm ready when thursday comes.

Which reminds me i should be doing that right now seeing as tomorrow is thursday. Oh well."m really exited about my auctions that are ending tomorrow. As i said two are selling which is sweet! One sold already and i convinced her to buy two others i had of the same thing. And the other 5 well... we'll have to wait and see what happens. One of them is worth over $100 bucks so i'm hoping someone is willing to pay $60 which is what i listed it for. It is the June pattern by Fostoria which is the most highly collected of the elegant depression glassware.

So enough about my glass.
I'll talk later. maybe i'll even mention my life.

Wait. I don't have a life!!!

TTFN

p.s Wow this whole thing and i only had one spelling error... wait maybe that's only one detectable spelling error... who knows??

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Had a great weekend this weekend, why do they always have to end??

Pinky and I headed out early saturday morning to go to a depression glass show in Sac. Got up there at lunch time and decided to see if Pinkies friend Selena was working, Finally found the coffee shop.. what's with all the one ways and blocked roads up there?? No selena but we settle down for coffee anyway.

Headed over to the scottish rite building for the show it was awesome, even if a certain someone did get a tad nervous about all the glass on shelves around the place.

There was tons of glass and all so shiny and pretty but I was good I didn't buy anything, well except a book but no glass. I learned tons from talking to the dealers and found out what a couple of my pieces were. That's always a good thing. I hate the days I get home from a thrift store or yard sale only to find half the stuff i bought isn't in my books. But I identified some of that random stuff now.

Stopped at cattlemans on the way home which was Great. I've never eaten there before and they have Good food!

Thanks pinky :o)

Stayed up waaaaaaaaaay tooo late last night but what the hell you're only an old fogey once right??

Spent this morning (well afternoon really) trawling around yard sales and thrift stores. Came home with a few good pieces which I now have to catalog. lazed around this evening and did laundry now it's time for bed.

Which reminds me i've gotta go get my laundry.

Night folks, pleasant dreams.

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So they say the first part of recovery is admission of the problem.

My names Catisfaction and i am a collectaholic.

There I've got it out.

This is my therapy. I'm going to regale you all with stories of my collecting as it happens. As well as other little pieces about life.

I started collecting young... Hoarding i think you'd call it.Not a single photograph, letter, postcard, memento, toy or article of clothing could escape the vortex of my room. I'm pretty sure my parents got rid of some things when i wasn't looking but i had so much stuff i wouldn't have noticed if they did!
Now that i'm one of those weird grown up type people i have to have a weird grown up hobby and so the Depression Glass collection was born.

No thrift store, yard sale, estate sale or antique store is safe from my snooping, prying eyes. Every piece must be examined, thought about examined again and... if the price is low enough bought by me.

So there it is in a nut shell. The beginning of my collection is on the shelf and there will be more, much much more.

Would you like to hear about it?

over and out

Catisfaction.

P.S. If anyone is wondering why i sign my name differently to my journal name it's because some poor unsuspecting sole has stolen my name and is already using it on here... I'll get her, You count my words i'll get her!!!