http://www.democraticunderground.com/10261369Oh my.
This is an addition to
"chronically helpless primitive about ready to give up"
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=104955.0posted here yesterday (Wednesday).
Paper Roses (5,871 posts) Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:07 PM
Did you ever buy something and then not know what to do with it?
The non-profit thrift shop where I volunteered for many years closed recently. All clothing and housewares was donated to Savers, the furniture was sold to dealers in a fairly local co-op. When everything was closed and done with, all that was left was the box of costume jewelry.
Two times a year we would have a jewelry sale. Whatever we thought was good was compared with similar(or same) items on eBay, tagged with the eBay price, put in a hatbox and saved for the sale. Just before sale time, we would re-ticket the items at out T/shop price. The obvious gold and silver was put in the small case to be sold. Everything else(not the junk) was put aside for the sale.
In a spirit of goodwill, I offered the manager a good price for the stuff in the box. I had not seen the contents in months. She passed the offer to the powers that be. The offer was accepted. I now have a huge lot of good to great costume jewelry and I don't know what to do with it. I did not know how much was set aside but when I picked it up and paid, I was flabbergasted.
My thought before I bought this stuff was to sell it on eBay. I have never done eBay but---
Never did I expect to have about 300 pieces. This is good costume jewelry. Major names, no plastic junk.
Any ideas? No way do I want to do the eBay route. I took a quick look, too complicated and time consuming, not for me.
This lot of goods needs a dealer with a good size display case.
This huge lot sits in my living room. I avoid facing the project. There is too much to consign to one of the local shops. No way to keep track of it. I need to sell it outright.
How do I get myself into these situations?????
Now, the "back story" on the chronically-helpless primitive is that for years and years and years she tried being a purveyor of used goods, but she had a habit of concentrating upon increasing inventory, rather than making sales.
About, oh, maybe five years ago, her house was so congested with used goods she couldn't hardly use much of it, and so she hired someone to e-Bay it all away for her. Which the individual did, putting lots of cash into her purse, and making the house habitable.
But then she turned around and jampacked it up to the rafters again.....
There's no help for some people.
Judy grasswire out in Oregon does the same thing--builds inventory rather than sales--but at least she has the means to spend a small fortune every month on renting storage units so she can at least breathe in her home.
northoftheborder (4,683 posts) Wed Oct 28, 2015, 11:19 AM
1. Thanks for the laugh, an empathetic one!
I have no helpful suggestions; me - who brought home a funny, cute, photo of a sheep with a flower bouquet on her head yesterday! Thought it cool! (won it at a luncheon as a table prize!)
There are people who create wonderful new jewelry concoctions from old costume jewelry. Look at the website Etsy. I'll bet there is someone one there would love to have your box of treasure!
