An EBay whore... Well that is what it seems these days, I have been auctioning off some of the rare items I have in my possession. I am not doing this to get rich, you'd have to be some kind of unique nut to get rich from ebay. No this is a hobby that I picked up recently and I'm really enjoying it. As I sit here right now there is 20 minutes left on an auction for one of those german beer stein's. There's four bids on it and 5 watchers so it's just the excitement of it all watching people think it over and the smart ones really wait until they can't wait anymore. Last week I sold a pair of pearl handeled opera glasses that looked like they were only going to fetch a few bucks for, within the last two minutes of the auction 2 people bid on it and it sold for over 10 dollars US, add shipping and a small handling fee and that's a decent profit for something that was sitting in the bottom of my desk drawer.
I will be auctioning off a 1916 penny, the exact one I watched sell for 255US on EBay but I am not expecting to get even close to this much. I won't do it until I'm ready but last night while sitting in bed I had this crazy idea. I'm certainly not going to clean the dirty penny because that would almost destroy it's value i'm sure. It has character and I think someone might give it a good home. Either way I think at some point it will be auctioned off and I will use the money to purchase something for my kids. Mabey take them to a movie if there is enough profit that would be great fun!
My mother's health hasn't been very good in the past week. I shouldn't be surprised really, I fought my way through a horrible cold and even now my voice is a bit rough. I was over the infection in two days, I know because the symptoms of the original cold dissapeared quickly, it's the after effects that always get to me. Sinuses etc Sometimes in fact I end up with horrible bronchitis but that didin't happen this time I think because secretly i've been using the salbutamol inhaler that my doctor prescribed the last time I was deathly ill. hahahaha Deathly ill.. that rings in a strange octave when I say it because compared to some in my life I have only a scraped knee... Anyhow, back to my mother. Mother had a bit of an emotional episode yesterday, I could tell something had been bothering her. I think she feels guilty that my employment hasn't been up to snuff and it's putting a bit of a strain on us but it really isn't because of her. The economy's slow right now, that's to be expected and I've really limited the type of work that I am willing to do because I want to take care of my kids during the day time. Send them off to school, pick them up after. Not to mention the appointments I have had to keep with my oldest son (String Bean). My mother began to cry, said she felt like she was losing hope etc. People are getting their gift of life left right and centre, all around us there is hope and yet at times it overwhelms a person. I completely understand... I hugged her and reminded her that if our comedian friend at the physio room can recieve his after 9 months or so of waiting, then she can too! Sadly though, a lot of people don't make it to their transplant. I was told around 20% in fact... That is a rather high number when you think about it.
Ohhh, 9 minutes left in the auction... I'm watching it on a very cool utility I found under the linux software repos called JBidwatcher. I highly recommend it to anyone. And I believe it's java software so it will run for anyone with java on their comp...
So now with 5 minutes left on the auction and the snow piling up on my sidewalk I am sure I know what I'll be doing this after noon. I have one ebay package waiting to go out and if the last bidder on this stein foots the bill quick enough i'll get that package out at the same time.
Fun Fun Fun...
I won't tell you the final price on the auction, I think you should just become a watcher of my items to have that luxury, the link is up at the top and it costs nothing to watch :)
Have a great day, I know I will!~
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