What have I done…

In the past two days I’ve given my mother a crash course in selling stuff on ebay. She is currently listing six or seven items but i spending every free moment listing additional things and having me take digital pictures of pipes, dolls, vases, linens, beaded fruit, etc. She’s even said “I can feel a new addiction coming on.”

Basically all the stuff she’s tried to sell at previous yard sales, or planned to sell at future ones, or at this point, anything that’s not nailed down or items she’s ever imagined selling. Everything that is shippable is now fair game. She’s a total addict now, checking on her auctions every 30 minutes to see the current bid prices and visit counters. I suspect the next year will result in a major purge in any odd object in her house.

Hey, make her feel good, go visit some of her auctions, here’s her listing page.. Please only bid if you are serious about buying anything though.

I’m wondering if I’ll regret enabling her with this, not that much of anything that’s mine is left in her house, but ebay does make it very easy to unload stuff. Too easy perhaps 🙂

Our long strange trip begins today

We leave on our big trip down to NH, CT, NY, CT, NY, CT, NH (in that order). Returning to home on 1/4.

I will be online alot this trip, last year I played ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of cable modems and installed wireless routers and cable modems at just about every house we visit on our family trips, and for my mothers house in NY I’m bringing our Airport Base Station so I’ll be all set. Hopefully i’ll have some time to write some more stuff in here, now that I’m mirrored on Livejournal and have more people actually reading my ramblings. (or at least now I can imagine this as being more possible)

Since I’m using this journal as a place to store documents, I’m going to include our Housesitting/Dog & Cat feeding instructions I always mail out to the kind folks we sucker into caring for our animals & home when we are out. Real interesting reading, don’t miss it 🙂

In case anyone is curious here is our crew; Seeger, Goblin, Hurricane, Finnegan, and Oberon:

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