The weather is still nasty, the winds are howling and it is damaging my calm. I don’t want to talk about the weather tonight so I’m going with something else.
As we divest ourselves of the lifetime of accumulated shtuff, both the wife and I are putting things on eBay with hopes of selling them.
The wife has boxes of toys from when her kids were little, spread across two rooms. Each box is stuffed with toys. Some of them have several large stuffed animals but others have tons of small figures. It’s a lot to get through.
“We need the tiny skier,” says the wife.
It has to be a small one.
“Okay, let me see if I can find it.”
I go upstairs and start digging through the boxes. I have to go through everything because there is no telling where it might be. I spend quite a bit of time looking but I’m unable to find it.
“No luck. You might have to refund that one.”
“We also need the baby seal.”
Back upstairs, and another thorough search. I have to pull lots of toys out of each box so I can get to the toys at the bottom, then have to put everything back in the box so I can have some room to work. I do manage to find the baby seal and return triumphantly downstairs.
“I don’t know if that is the right one. There’s another baby seal doll.”
I start to trudge upstairs when the wife stops me. “I think we should make sure that we have all the ones I have listed on eBay already so we can be ready to ship them out if someone buys them. Also, I know I have a lot more toys than what I have listed on eBay. How do I make things smaller on eBay?”
“Make them smaller? I’m not sure I understand the question.”
“I need to make the page smaller so I can print them out so you have a list to check against.”
“That’s not practical.” I think about it. I could try logging into her account on my phone but I’m not liking that idea. “Let me take a photo on my phone of each item in your active sales list, then I can use that to go by.”
I get photos of everything then trudge upstairs. After finding the first toy on the list I can tell that digging through each box every time is not going to be efficient. I take all the toys out of one box ad lay them in rows on the floor. The I set the box on the other side of the room. I do this with each of the boxes, then move to the other room. It doesn’t have quite as mush space so I can only get two boxes done this way.
I take the toy I found, and put it on the bed. I go through the list this way, finding the toy and putting it on the bed, then moving on to the next toy.
Sometimes I have to come downstairs to get the wife to verify that the toy I found is the correct one to match the photo on my phone. They photos didn’t all come out clear. I managed to get them all correctly matched. Yeah me!
I got a little over half done with the toys. There were only two I didn’t find, aside from the tiny skier.
Tomorrow will most likely involve going through the second half and finding all those toys. Then it will be a matter of getting all the rest of the toys on eBay. But that’s a task for the wife. I’ve got plenty of things of my own that I need to get online for sale.
Ain’t capitalism grand, my Hordeling?
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