One month (and a bit) on

Well, it is just over one month since we started our little challenge - and this is what I have learnt so far:

1. It is great to have ideas straight after school holidays, when the absence of homework and extra-curricular activities leads you to believe that you have huge expanses of time on your hand. Only to realise that when school and activities resume, there goes any spare time you had. I guess what I am saying is we have not been listing as many items a week as I thought we would. Which leads me to point two.
   
2. Listing items on Ebay takes forever, even using Turbo Lister I find the time it takes to research the item to ensure it is described as accurately as possible, determine postage amounts and start price seems to take me forever. It could be I do get a little side tracked with the researching part, and go off on little tangents as I learn new things.
3. Point number 2, has taught me one trick to save time is it is easier to sell like items at the one time - for example one week I just listed Ladybird books, I am currently grouping Little Golden books together to list all at once.
   
4. The thought of having a garage sale/market stall in a Canberra winter is not very appealing. I am keeping this option open until spring when our Saturday mornings are sport free and the damp weather does not make everything wet and soggy.
5. Friends and family are very supportive - they want to know how we are going, and keep us believing that this is all possible.
6. It is amazing what you can find in your house to sell when you think about it. Pappy was looking for an Robotech model he wants to sell, and uncovered more things to sell. 
7. That it is very exciting when an item sells on Ebay for more than you thought it would.
8. It is important to focus on our goal of selling 1000 things - even when we seem so far away at the moment, because that number can only go down.

This week:

- 2 items listed on Ebay had closing bids - will list them as sold once payment is received

- have listed some items on All Classifieds - will see how this goes

- I am travelling interstate for work this week, so have not listed on Ebay (need to train everyone else how to check for messages etc).