I'm in a quandary!

Can you make an inventory spreadsheet that has a column for where to find something. I have stuff in the bedroom in several different places, and sometimes it’s a challenge to find that item you listed 2 years ago.

Maybe concentrate on pushing some of the stuff already listed out the door first? (Especially the bigger stuff). Promote, offer specials or whatever.

I am in very tight quarters here. My room is a 9 by 11 feet space I think.

I came across a vintage bassinet that I originally planned on selling somewhere, but I decided to keep it. It is on wheels and I use it to hold some of the stuffed animals (which I put the animals in plastic protective bags first).

Since it is on wheels I can move it easily out of the way. I put it in front of my closet door (thank God for the closet). This was a definite space saver.

Here’s another thing that I did.

On top of the shelf in my closet I lined the metal shelf with tough cardboard (cut it to fit). I’ve got a wire shoe rack holder on top of that. I use it to put stuff that already comes in boxes such as lightweight games, etc, etc.

This way I get several shelves on top of one.

The only thing is that I have to get the ladder out each time I need to get something down, which is not often. So, it has not been a problem and everything has remained sturdy for over 2 years now (just got done looking at it )

I only keep one of these up there.

I prefer the rubbermaid drawers that stack to the tubs but it would depend on where you would store them. The heavier tubs would do well in garage,or basement. Inside rooms or closets the stacking drawers work great. They come in a variety of sizes. I ususally line them with a cloth of some sort and layer them up. I label them like linens, buttons, purses,jewelry I use them to put things that I want to list as well. I usually have a drawer going with list items and sold items waiting to be paid. A drawer that I call group that I throw things like linens that I will do a group lot of. You can just keep adding to the top. I keep a small step stool handy.

Good ideas, except that I already have totes reaching up farther than I can get to without some help from my tall grandson, who’s about to go off to college. I no longer have my big old 6 bedroom house with attic and basement; having traded it down for a 2 bedroom apartment. (Let’s fact it, a house that size is a bit excessive for one human being!)

There are 4 closets in this apartment. One has my clothes and other personal stuff. 2 of them are filled with nicely-categorized items to sell.The other one is filled with the fabrics I use to make up my quilted stuff. My ‘guest bedroom’ is filled with 7 foot bookcases that hold items for sale, totes and cabinets with tiny drawers to hold beads and jewelry.

The basement storage space is piled ceiling high with miscellaneous household items that just won’t fit anywhere else.

The difficulty for me is keeping the items already listed separate from those that have not been listed and from those whose pictures have been taken and just need descriptions created before they can be listed…….

I just know at some time soon, a buyer will purchase an item that I can’t find anywhere! Very unprofessional, and I hate the thought.

Maybe I just have to face the fact that I can’t list anything else until my stock is depleted, but that means I’ll never get up to my goal of 1,000 listings!

Possibly, the solution is to revise my goal downwards……

Carolyn

Do you have room under your bed for storage? I also fit things under my desk and printer table. What about shelving on the walls? It looks like you are only about 150 listings short of your goal, so how about doing small items like jewelry? I’m sure you can do it Carolyn!
I have my listed and unlisted in separate areas, but they are starting to overlap, so now I am putting items in boxes and writing “listed” on the outside.
And I only take photos in small groups at a time. Then those items don’t get “put away” until they are listed.
I hope I’ve told you something you haven’t already tried. I want to see you reach your goal

Sell smaller stuff.

Sounds like a good system JS, but I would never keep up with a loc code system. LOL I am constantly moving stuff around and consolidating items as I sell stuff, so it takes up less space. My loc codes would constantly be changing and would drive me nutz. LOL

Hi, Carolyn Know the feeling My friend and rented a space at our locale flea market and have done very well there with things i pulled of here that was not selling .. good luck ann

Here’s an idea! You buy out my booth, and put the stuff in your booth. That will put you well over 1000. Then I will store the stuff until it sells in your booth and I will ship from here.
LOLROFLMBO! Works for me!!! HA HA!

@Princess: Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Moving stuff around a lot and re-organizing, eh? OK, lemme think. How about this:

Make up a chart, or several, with divisions on it to represent the rooms of your home – sort of a floor plan.

Then come up with some kind of coding system for your stuff, that’s just a few characters long. Perhaps the first group can refer to a Bonz category of an item, for example PB (for purses and bags). Now add a 3 character, being a product code you establish. Change your item description to include a the code, at the bottom of your listing text, where you’ll just add, “Item LB1,” for example. This gives you 999 possible codes within the category. If you want to get fancy, you can even make the 3 characters mean something, such material and color, so that LB1 means leather, black, and the number 1. Get some little removable stickers to put on your items, with your code written on them.

Now back to your chart of a room. Draw lines over the room outline to divide it into 4 quadrants, or otherwise to show the places in that room where you keep stuff. With a pencil, write the code of the item in the appropriate quadrant or designated space.

When you move something outside its designated area, go back to the chart, erase the previous location, and write it into the new location.

There you go – problem solved!

Or, maybe not.

@cshort – is it hard to get people to crawl under the bed to admire your antique wax candle collection? lol J/K!!

Carolyn, you never know what item will attract someone to your booth. If you decide to have a yard sale, just Reserve those items you take with you. Delete them if they sell, and re-activate them if they don’t and you bring them back home.

Tweety, you could have a large yard sale at your mum’s house and hopefully not have to move the stuff at all.