what I do with all my time.... (brace yourself!)

 For those that know me, know I LOVE to thrift shop.  I always have.  Until now I have shopped for me... now I shop for eBay..  Yep, I have been doing the eBay business this year.  So far, so good.

BUT sometimes I get myself in a pickle - like a few weekends ago.  I did a thing, I got involved (on a whim) in an auction... YAY, I won... oh, yeah... I won (bumbumbum)... here is the result of that win:

This is the haul still boxed.  I was honestly scared to tell Butch what I did... but then I HAD to unload it from the car, so had to fess up... I just said.  Uh, I did a "thing"... and then sort of chuckled about it, then I told him I won an auction... it was less than $40 total... BUT it was 5 (yes FIVE) tables laid out with glassware at the store... yeah... FIVE.  Barbara was a sport and helped me box it all and pack it into my car for the ride home.  The gal I was bidding against only wanted ONE set of dishes from the pile and offered me $15.  Uh, OK, fine, that would be fine.  Do I even know what they were worth?  NOPE.  Did I pay for just under 1/2 of the cost of the winning bid, heck yes!!  I was still in shock when I immediately said "yes" to that sale to tell you the truth.  What isn't pictured here is a set of brass lamp bases ... You'll see those at the end of this post.

This is the bulk of the haul on the table... 

plus these two chickens...

plus these two lamps - that in hind sight were marked on the bottom MADE IN ITALY.  Really?  They may have been worth more than the $10 I charged.  OK, let's be realistic they WERE worth more than that, but I'm pricing to sell as this stuff is something I bought on a whim and didn't really do a bunch of research on.  

The ONLY things I knew had some worth were the FiestaWare and the Dorothy Thorpe.  What is Dorothy Thorpe?

This is Dorothy Thorpe (you would have to live under a rock to NOT know what Fiesta Ware is)

These are 1960 silver rimmed glassware... there was quite a bit of this in the group - these drink glassed some bowls and a salad bowl.  All will be, or are on eBay for a decent price for the name.  I may be sitting on them for a while because apparently I'm the only one that seems to want to buy Dorothy Thorpe glassware.  ha!  

The Fiesta Ware on the contemporary pieces (I had to look up how to identify those) were sold off for the most part (paying for most of the rest of this bill).  I have a few left over of the percimmon dinner dishes.  The rest are all going up on eBay.  

If you wonder what my handle is on eBay to check things out it is: https://www.ebay.com/usr/doash_78

If you see anything let me know ... I can probably work a deal with you :)

why am I so happy to tell you all this?  Today my table looks like THIS!!

1.5 weeks later and it's clear!!  OK, so not all the way clear, but it's 99% of the way cleared off!!!!

Whoot, whoot.

We won't mention the bin of stuff in the kitchen currently awaiting attention!