EBAY MADDNESS and Stay at home MOMMY, christmas SAVINGS !! whoot whoot

  Hello my fellow Attic people,

        For those of you who don't know me yet, I am a stay at home mother of 3, Last year I had to quit my job, after my free child care was no longer available. I tried placing them in the cheapest after school daycare program I could find, and upping my hours at work, unfortunately I only made min wage at 10 something an hour, and part time hours at as little as 12 hours a week  in some cases.     This cost me a LOT, for TWO HOURS after school care each day for 5 days was .... $950.00!!!! By the end of the month I was negative - $250.00.  not including the expense of gas to travel back and forth.
         This is when I decided I needed to MAKE MONEY FAST!  I listed a few items local, and on eBay...after my first Item sold I WAS SOOOOO excited, that I decided to keep listing more... soon a month later I had made over $500.00 and was only listing small random items occasionally...!!! Although I am just learning still, and I am NOT a top rated seller ( which is my goal) I  realized that I can make more staying home then I could EVER make outside of the home on a minimum wage budget!!
          So as some of you may know from my YOUTUBE channel, I have been spending a LOT of time buying, and listing on ebay and other sites local to me !  I have been debating making my channel (in additional to my other videos during the Holiday season, ) into a list of Christmas sales from December 1'st to 24th, as a countdown to 'christmas fund' accumulation calculation ( hhahaha next dr.suis right here! )... in simple terms LETTING YOU SEE HOW MUCH I MAKE but I'm still deciding on this.
         We all spend a little to much MONEY on Christmas whether we try not to or not, it always seems to put people in a financial bind for the following months afterwards. SO my goals for this year, ( lets call it a PRE new years resolution shall we)  is to EARN as much as we SPEND by December 24th!  by purely using my online outlets, such as ebay,amazon,kijiji, and other local sites on facebook!  budgeting has always been a weak point with me and I'm sure most of you can relate,ESPECIALLY during the holidays!. This past few years I have been VERY diligent with my spending and earning points, I have been keeping up with bills and have little debt accumulated. I hope to have 0% in the new year.   That being said If this goes well, I will be able to spend January deciding on which bank to open a family savings at, INSTEAD of deciding which bill to pay ''NEXT MONTH'' !
 
 Maybe some attic people can join as well! we can have a MERRY OL' TIME , HAHAHa .. I know not funny!
                    talk to you soon and happy hunting!

12 DAYS OF THRIFTING :)

HELLO PEOPLE OF THE ATTIC :)

 
 So since I spend nearly every day thinking or actually going thrift shopping, whether it be for sale items or personal! I thought why not do a 12 days of thrifting blogger post, I'm going to show you 12 things I thrifted and the prices, If I can remember them.. nearly my entire house hold has been furnished with second hand items, thrifted, founded or GIVEN things. so I thought why not do a 12 days of thrifting blog once a month!  lol I could probably dedicate once a week in reality...but here it is:

1. Set of Victorian style lamps that light up from the top..AND inside the base! you can either have both on, or just either or... I got BOTH of these for under 8 dollars at a local thrift store! STEAL! ( I did have to glue the base back on to one of them.. but they included the shades as well.

2. Tiny tin sail boat, mounted on wood! I love ships or boats, anything that is related to the sea or water.. I'm not sure why, but I have acquired QUITE a few ship items and you will probably see a bunch in this post as well... this one has a pearly finish to the sails as well I THINK I found this at a yard sale and it has a sticker on the bottom for $2.00 , LOVE IT

3. Vintage globe, This item was a gift..and I have ALWAYS wanted one. when I was a child my dad had a globe.. I remember staring and twirling it for hours just reading every single word. this item was gifted to me last Christmas and was found at Value village (large thrift store) it cost :  but for me it was free :)

4.Christmas snow globe, this is sooo cute, I think everyone has this secret love for snow globes... they are in nearly every single Christmas movie new and old, so that is probably why! BUT I found this at a local thrift store, and I believe I paid 3.00 for it.

5. Botanical lamp shade, I found this at a thrift store called ' Beyond the Blue box', the lamp shade that originally went to the lamp, broke! so I happened to find this one and it was $1.50 BUT they were having a half off certain items sale and this was one of them ... so it cost me $0.75! YA... you read that right! lol I love this so much.

6. Vintage picture frames, I have many of these around my house, and the thrift store I mentioned above... Beyond the blue box, does certain items by the pound.. and this is one of those items.. so I don't know for sure how much I paid PER item because I never just by one weighted Item, BUT I would say it probably cost me 50 cents OR LESS. ! 

7. Creepy dolls, these aren't for every one's taste but I just LOVE them!  they are cracked up and dirty, they both have original clothes on and have hand painted faces , I love thinking about who owned them or even who MADE them. And how much they must have adored them when they were given to the first child. I feel the same way about old books...someone loved them dearly at one point in time! and now they are mine :) I found these at a yard sale this past summer and they were 4.00 dollars !  

8. Pillar candle holders, this trio of candle pillars was a very exciting find.. although they were  A BIT out of my ' thrifty budget' ( I like to get the BEST deal when I thrift to get that extra rush LOL ) they cost me $8.00 for the set if I remember correctly and that was for all three! I love them

9. Unique handmade wine rack, this I found at a flea market, it was amongst a junk yard of outdoor items, it was meant to be a gift and I was going to stain the wooden knobs and paint the steal. But before I was able to gift it, my dad let me know it wouldn't work for the size of the table ( meant for my step mother)  but it cost me $5.00 which is INSANE for what it is and the quality is amazing.

10. Vintage pipe set, I found these recently at  yet again another local thrift shop, and they were an AMAZING find, I will never find a deal quite like this for a while, I ended up keeping a few for decor and listing the humidor and selected pipes online! but I just love these SOOO much! They cost me .... $5.00 FOR EVERYTHING in the picture, including , humidor,all the pipes in the box and the box!!!! that's crazy.

11.Music sheets, this would be more for my fellow craters or fellow music lovers I got these for the intention of putting them in frames and displaying them as art work, but also for the left overs and ''no name'' music sheets I wanted to modge podge some tables, or furniture pieces. These probably all together over time cost me 10.00 total?  I have been gathering them over the years.. I may find my self listing some as well.  actually I did a table once.. I will leave a picture

12. Antique Vanity, this is one of my precious items, I love it so much it sits in my main living area, it was also one of my best finds price wise this beautiful vanity cost a grand total of 30 dollars! and was purchased from value village!  YES 30.00 dollars, value village has a deal when you drop of donations you get stamps on a card, once you reach a certain amount of stamps you get a discount! we applied it to the already crazy deal! and got this lovely refurbished antique vanity

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I will try and do more of these...I just LOVE talking about my thrifted items :)
Ps. I put up a new video today.. if you are interested.



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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO