Book Board Chat

Oh, and along with several others - - I sold nothing of any consequence on ebay. In fact, I'm not sure I even had a sale this month; save for the odd one on FB. I do need to knuckle down and get some things sold, though. So sad, when you remember the days of getting up and opening the site to check how your ebay listings did overnight...been a long time for most of us. Congrats to Beth on the Barbies, and June has her built-in audience for those wonderful flight books.

We went to an auction yesterday; left at 7:15 a.m. to stop at a yard sale in another town (nuttin', honey), and left the auction, which was still going on, at 9:00. DH bought 3 tool boxes and a few other things, and we had QUITE a time stuffing that into our Ford Expedition. We debated taking the van, and should've. It had a lot of stuff already in it, though, so we'd have had to transfer some of that "storage" out. I saw four of the Monterrey enamel plates with the brands around the edges, and thought, since the crowd was sparse, I would get them without a fight. Wrong. Ran up to $50 (which was a couple jumps past where I should have stopped) but lost them to a woman who wanted them very badly. Yes, condition was perfect, but they traditionally don't sell for more than $10-$12 per plate. Certain pieces in that pattern do very well, but not so much the plates. Still, I was disappointed, since there wasn't much I even wanted. What I DID get was a 4-pack of Pyrex coffee mugs in the spring blossom (also crazy daisy) pattern...in its box, never opened. I have a couple of casseroles with lids in that pattern, one white with green, and one green/white blossoms...I did sell a butter dish and creamer awhile back, so there are collectors for that. And at a thrift I found 4 corelle saucers in the crazy daisy, since I remember that at ANOTHER thrift up here I saw cups in that pattern with no saucers, for .10 each. I'll pick up four of them and have four c/s sets for about $2. I don't know if those sell as well. See? In the old days, I only had to go to the book shelf and get out a few children's books with great illustrations and list them and sit back and wait. Now I'm scrabbling around buying junk I never envisioned myself selling. Sometimes it's entertaining; other times - not. lol