During February I 'only' spent £31.64 on second-hand items, a slightly lower sum than January - probably because a) February is a shorter month, and b) I was away for five days.. Not quite all of the spends were on items for re-sale as £6.40 of that total went on things for me or P - useful items like three low-fat cookbooks, a large bottle of Charles Worthington Shampoo and a pack of three new socks for P. So that gives me a total of £25.24 spent on items for re-sale and my total sales on ebay for those items that were any good was £83.24 - giving me a grand profit of £58.00.
Out of that total profit, I had two really good sales - £30.00 for the rather moth-mauled Aquascutum Scarf found for £1.00 in a local charity shop, and £17.50 for the boxed Crabtree & Evelyn set which I paid £3.00 for in the same charity shop. Other than those two biggies, there were lots of little profits of £5.00 here and £3.00 there.
I also sold £28.64 worth of books on Amazon at the beginning of February - nothing since, sadly. There were no Greenmetropolis sales at all in February but, oddly enough - not having sold a thing on there since before Christmas, and mentally threatening to shut the whole account down and get rid of the books - I've sold three books on there in the past 24 hours - weird!!
Congrats on your eBay sales - especially that scarf, great profit! I keep a record of what I spend in charity shops too, but whilst I sometimes buy homeware with the intention of selling on, somehow it all seems to stay in my cupboards... I will have to start looking tactically for things that don't interest me but might sell well.
Posted by: Faith Hope and Charity Shopping | 03/08/2011 at 05:48 PM