Aah. One more day until November. And, it’s still SEVENTY OR EIGHTY DEGREES outside!!! Jealous?!

I don’t think I’ve really talked about it too much but ever since we moved to Florida, I started going to thrift stores to purchase items to sell, good deals or I’ve found quite a bit of stuff I either didn’t really need (YES I DID) or did need to make my life easier (I SWEAR).

Here’s two treasures I wanted to share that I found…

A St Pete, FL Aquarium jewelry box. 99cents. Smells like old cedar. I now store any of my beach or pirate jewelry in it.

This is an old recipe box like the couple of ones my grandma had. Reminds me of 1970s.
I haven’t cleaned it up and don’t know what I’m going to store in it, but it was 55cents.
I already have one like that (it’s green) but it’s kind of about 12 hours away in my parents home in Kentucky.

(I have a think for random boxes. It’s some sort of box disease. At least I can always find some way to fill’em up!)

I bought a couple of boxes from eBay and reselling the items. I’ve already sold a few, have more listed and have a little bit more to go (it takes time as to figure out what to do with everything). I took a break from going to the thrift stores because I wasn’t seeing a lot of things I wanted or would sell on eBay.

On Friday, I went to Second Image and found a bunch of things. I found two bins/organizers for 99cents. I found the orange tin above and some various things to throw into my already made lots (55cents per each thing).

Late late last night, I got the urge to want to clean my desk space and I DID. I finally have an area to sit my Mac ON MY DESK (shocker!), my other computer is still on here and I can finally organize all of my work papers, too. Horray!

Pictures:

BEFORE CLEANING:

AFTER CLEANING:

FINAL PRODUCT:

So I’ve been thinking about  ways to expand myself to networking around Tampa….targeting what I’m actually doing right now, eBay work. I already have a main person that I’m helping, but I need more profit so I can start paying all of my bills again (and have extra money to play with).

I put out a Craigslist ad but I do not know if my target is really on Craigslist or not. I need business cards, I need to go around to pawn, thrift and all kinds of other stores and put my name out there. I need to also find the places that I can trust for answers to questions, too. I need a resource, I need a lot of resources….especially people to go to when I buy certain things, or a buyer.

I’ve been watching Storage Wars allllll day today. A huge marathon on Netflix. This also goes with my addiction to Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Antiques Roadshow, Cash in the Attic. You get to see the chance someone takes along with the risk of a major loss. I also get the chance to see what people think is worthy to sell.

November starts tomorrow. Which means, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow as well. When I get up in the morning, I’m going to be deciding if I’m going to participate or not. I am.. just… I just have way too much to do or so it seems without writing. I’ll figure out something, I’m probably going to cheat this time with something I already have started because I KNOW I cannot finish 50,000 right now.

Anyway, guess that’s all I have to say for now. I’m just excited I have an actual work space now. YAY.

I hope I can sleep. Wish me good vibes to finally get some sleep. I haven’t slept more than a full 3 hours per day in the last week. Extremely stressed out, worrying about work, worrying about money and worrying about being good.