Elsewhere

So, I haven't been up to much on the blog front. I do most of my holiday shopping before Thanksgiving so I've been busy with that and I can't show any of that because people getting gifts read this. But I did score an awesome new garbage find!

From Blogger Pictures

Found in Seaford, NY.

We were on our way home from Eric's parents' house after a sale and there it was. It barely fit into the car. But, hey. We fit that coffin thing in, so this was gravy. Some good clothing loot from the sale, by the way, so expect some outfit pictures soon.

Also, before the wedding I wrote some content for Debt Free Saver and now we got it in publishable shape. Check out parts 1 and 2 here and here, respectively!

Pimping Kaboodle

So. I pretty much live on Kaboodle these days. It's a really great way to get my shopping organized. Which means more advanced planning of my purchases and less big ticket impulse buys. Which means better bargaining. They've also got lots of little deals and promotions going on all the time. So I'm a Target holiday elf thingie this year. Go check it out.

October Goal Review + November Goals

So, October was my first month stating blog goals. I think perhaps there were too many goals which were a bit too large in scope for a blog I only post to four to ten times a month. Despite that, I did try to implement them.

I sneaked in the Swap Feature at the last possible moment and I only posted one item, but at least it's started. I posted twice with actual tag sale procedure/content. I tried out the asking more questions thing on one of them, but it was a bit stilted because I just tacked it on at the end. I need to work on ways of integrating them more naturally, but I think I still want to have something general at the end of each of those posts for people who are new to tag sales and might not know where to start.Any tips? I also posted more often, but not much more regularly. I may experiment with scheduling posts more, but I get antsy waiting for a post to be live when I've already written it, especially because then I might not be around to read and respond to comments right away.

Anyway, having the goals in mind has been great, I just think I need to take it slower and really do them well. So here goes November.

1. Post at least three outfit posts for the month. These are so much fun to do and people are always really responsive to these kinds of posts.

2. Find more bloggers to interact with. It's easy to find blogs I enjoy reading that are about clothes. It's much harder finding ones I really enjoy that are about tag sales and bargains. (I do love Yard Sale Bloodbath.) If you guys stumble upon any, I'd love it if you sent them my way.

3. Get more swappable stuff photographed. That's the most annoying part for me because it's all strewn about until I actually pull it together for swappingness.

That's it for November goals. November through January there's lots of tag sale boom and bargains to be had so I may be too busy experiencing them to introduce a ton of goals.

Available for Swap or Purchase

So, having things regularly available for swap on an individual basis was one of my October goals. Check me out, sneaking it in under the wire.

So, how this works is if anyone wants them, they can offer up something else for trade, or make an offer, not including shipping, to buy them. For buying, Paypal only. For swapping, we can negotiate the semantics on an individual basis. As I post each new item, it will go in the same flickr set with older items, so you can always negotiate on several things at once later. Please ask any questions you might have before we agree to exchange items.

So, in honor of Halloween, monster green Steve Madden heels in size 7. They have a slash through the label, like they do at certain discount places. Slight scuffing near the toe (pictured). I'd love to trade them for something kinda similar, maybe a slightly lower heel, in the 7-8 range. But show me anything. I'm looking for something in the $30 range for them if you want to buy them.

Unexpected Finds

I was helping Ronnie upload pictures for our sale this weekend when I saw this bed and matching console table:




They're so steampunkable! And there are pink sheets on the bed, wtf. This is a reasonably small partial contents sale, so I was pretty shocked to find anything I liked in the pictures, but there you have it. The picture isn't even of the bed, it's of the Krasnyanskys. Anyway, I have no need for a bed because I just got a new one, but I hope someone awesome buys it.