MoreWelcome back to my trip back to South Dakota! At my dad’s family farm buildings had been torn down but we still found the land and were able to walk the fields. It was pretty cool. Here are my dad and Indy on the land.
After South Dakota, we drove back to Omaha, NE to meet up with Houston and his baseball team. Unfortunately, we were there for terrible thunder, lightning and rainstorms. The boys only got to play two games.
They won the games with a score of 10 to 0 and 9 to 0, so that record gave them 2nd place out of 49 teams. The rest of the tournament was cancelled. It was pretty depressing for the boys to have driven 3,000 miles round trip and only play two games.
Most of the team had even gotten Mohawks. Yikes! At least their hair will grow back out and they have the memory of attending a few of the College World Series games.
Here is the team with their haircuts.On our last day in Omaha, I stumbled across a brilliant thrift store. I ended up spending $100 and got some great items and some awesome clothes for Indy.
This bag of shiny sparkly plastic fruit was $2.98.Once again I will break it all out and list them individually.
I showed this bag at the eBay Radio Party in Las Vegas when I did my presentation and a nice man came up after and said, “Why in the world would you buy fruit”? And I said, “because people collect it.” He thought about it for a moment and said, “You know my wife collects fruit but she buys it at garage sales, she would never buy it on eBay.” Well, guess what? Lots of people DO buy it on eBay! Wish me luck with my $2.98 investment.
My last and biggest investment was the $60.00 I spent on costume brooches. I don’t think that there is anything really antique in this bunch but I got about 40 pieces (quite a few are signed) and that means I only paid $1.50 each. I will start them all at $9.99 each and should do quite well with the bunch.
HereIt is a vintage cat with missing rhinestones.
Thanks to Kathy Flood and her awesome jewelry teleseminar for getting me motivated. Get this 90-minute recorded teleseminar, it’s still available for purchase and instant download.
Notice how all the items I bought were small and non-breakable. When you are traveling this summer, look for these types of things to bring back home with you.
Many of you have asked about the Dinnerware Shipping eReport. It is now available for pre-purchase. You can learn more about it in the Lynn Recommends section. It is nearly finished and the download will be available on July 12th!
After Omaha, Indy and I flew to Las Vegas where I was fortunate to be asked to speak at the eBay Radio Party. It was fun seeing so many Queen’s Court members and meeting some of you for the first time.
Here we are at a round table luncheon before my presentation.
My presentation was about product sourcing and positioning. The research I did for craigslist product sourcing and how to position those items was very interesting so I decided to write this week’s ezine article about sourcing items to sell on eBay from craigslist. Don’t miss it! It is a great resource for those of you who don’t like to get up early and hit the garage sales.
After Las Vegas and the awesome eBay Radio Party, we returned to Palm Desert for ONLY twelve hours to find that Houston was needed in Huntington Beach for another baseball tournament. Back into the SUV we jumped.
Finally, on Sunday evening we were back home after traveling since June 18th. Ten days of planes, trains and automobiles (We saw trains all over Iowa and Nebraska, but we never got on one. We did get stuck waiting for quite a few!).
Now, I am home for a whole five days until I leave for eBay on Location in Chicago.Hope to see a lot of you there! It has been one crazy summer!c
