Monday Rambles

Much too much going on right now, with no time to ramble!  Ack!

I'm going to be house and cat-sitting for a week starting on Wednesday.  That means I'm leaving the house in the hands/paws of Keith and Chiquito.  I'm mildly concerned.

I don't have wifi access at that house, so look for a bunch of silly season posts after Wednesday.  I'll finally get those awesome smalls from set out up tomorrow and Wednesday.

There will be a Mazda shot on Sunday.  Saturday is the church and neighborhood sale that led to the birth of the Mazda shots a couple of years ago, so there will definitely be one.  I haven't been hitting a lot of sales lately, so there hasn't really been good material for a Mazda shot.

May finally ended with my lowest sales total in a while.  I realized when I got my check that, in spite of it all, (1) I did get a check and (2) that check is still several times larger than the first one I ever got.  I really don't have a lot to whine about in the end. 

But that might not stop me.

Last week, I told you all that I was offered the chance to buy out a booth for 50 bucks, which I took.  The deal was supposed to be for the merchandise only.  The vendor had 10 or so sets of shelves that were not part of the deal.  She was going to take those with her.

Well, last Monday, I went to the mall to start sorting out and moving the stuff out.  The vendor was there with her husband to get the shelves.  They had already taken a couple of plastic shelves out.  The husband wasn't really too keen on the idea of moving any more of the shelves out.  Every time she went to start moving a shelf, he would start hemming and hawing about how she didn't need that and they didn't have room for it and so on.  After he did this for several minutes, she would offer the shelf to me.  This process repeated over and over again until she had given me all the shelves at no extra cost.

On one hand, this is cool.  I can always use shelves and free is good.  On the other hand, now there's a lot more work to do.  Some of the shelves are pretty crappy too.  A couple have loose backs and one has no back whatsoever.  I put prices on all of them right away--super cheap for the crappy ones and not so cheap for the rest.

It took me a couple of days to deal with all the stuff, and during that time, all the crappy shelves sold and so did a couple of the good ones.  I made my money back just on those!  I put all the remiaing shelves in my newest booth, replacing the tables I was using in there.  This gave me a lot more room.

It ended up taking more time than  I originally planned, but it worked out fairly well, I think.  Out of the stuff in the booth, about three-fourths of it got moved to my booths.  I'll leave the prices alone for right now, then reduce them a little later.  I threw away about a third of what was left--broken, nasty stuff that should have never gone into a booth.  Another third went into a free cart--stuff that was okay, but not anything I wanted to dedicate booth space too.  It was gone in a day or so.  The last third came home to go in my yard sale.

And that was pretty much all I did last week.  Pretty dull, I know.  I was even too busy to take any pics.

Let me make up for that with some Music for Monday and then I'll split.



See ya!

Quickie Rambles

Not much happening here at the moment, so just a short rundown. With incomplete sentences, yet.

It's junk set out in my neighborhood.  I've been prowling the alleys and curbs since Friday and dragging home the bounty.  Pics to come.

I have discovered that, if you wander the streets with your head stuck through a big picture frame, people will give you a wide berth.

We've had cold and snow storms for the past couple of days.  Nothing major.  Just an annoyance.  Been staying close to home and drinking hot chocolate.

Booth sales are very good so far this month.  Very strong.  It's too early to count any chickens, but the potential is strong for this month.

I got a new shirt at the Peddlers Mall the other day.

It's wrinkly because it sat in a pile of clothes after coming out of the dryer.

Snazzy, huh? 

Believe it or not, I have always wanted one of these tux t-shirts.  Another vendor found it for me while she was looking through some clothes in a booth.  She showed it to me and said "This looks like something you need."  She was right. 

One of my goals for this year is to replace my aging, tired wardrobe.  I'm off to a good start.

That's all the news from these parts.  What's up in your corner of the world?