18th February 2019
Last week I issued Kelli a challenge to take some of the odd items she had picked up at the various thrift shops, post them on Marketplace and sell them. Then take ten percent of the money, buy some more items and sell those, and then take ten percent of those, and so on. So far she has exceeded my expectations, by getting things that sell. I have lost count of the number of high fives we’ve had, but every dollar she gets helps the business.
This morning a number of people turned up to pick up things they had bought, I even cleared the path to allow them safe and easy entry to get their goods.
We unloaded the large dresser that we got free yesterday, it was bloody heavy and nicknamed “Megadeath” because if it fell on me I would be dead.
We trawled the usual places for new stock coming up with a big fat zero. In desperation we tried a place on the north side where we’d been before, and luckily found a tall pine cabinet at a good price. Kelli scurried around and found a few other things. When she went up to the register to pay, there was a sign stating that senior citizens got ten per cent off. I pointed it out to Kelli in jest, but she inquired, and got the discount.
God knows was the assistant was thinking, after kelli had already negotiated a price a price for a large glass jar. There must have been the thought “what else does she want money off from?”
“We must try that again” I said, “ there sure are advantages in being retired”
We carried the piece straight into the kitchen so Kelli could start on it. This should be an easy project.
The activity at Farmgirl has been a little erratic, furniture has been put on hold but have not been bought. Sometimes it’s the size, other times it’s the colour, we try to have a neutral pallet, much to our frustration, but it’s the way things play out.
Another Lifetime to go 