Warm. Damp. Warm and damp. Felt like we missed Spring and went right into Summer yesterday. Once the rain stopped anyway. Today is supposed to be similar but clear. I hope so.
I’ve got stuff to pickup today and rain won’t help that. It’s stuff I couldn’t pick up yesterday because of the morning ‘moisture from the sky.’
I was able to drop off a small bin of mostly Pokemon stuff at my auctioneer, and pick up a check for my profit on the last several auctions. My big score was an antique book that brought $400. The most I paid for it was 50c… that’s good return on investment. If I bought it on a day with more books, it might have been 33c… There were some other good sellers too, with high multiples for ROI. I need to focus on those type of items. FWIW, they tend to be vintage, and unusual or even unique.
Books that have some local interest, a Texas subject, and are at least 75-100 years old do well for me at the local auction. “Smalls” or small collectible items did very well in the last auction as well. Bigger items, sports cards, and household things didn’t do well. Old toys, even in bad condition, usually do well, and sometimes do VERY well. It’s always a crapshoot, and sometimes things I thought were a slam dunk barely sell at all. The trick is to be there every time with a variety of stuff. And don’t pay very much for your stock.
I’ve got some other running around to do today, and some maintenance stuff at home. The wifi needs attention, as signal levels are very low in places. My wife has moved dealing with that to the top of my list. I’m going to add two Asus nighthawk access points at opposite ends of the house. That will probably be overkill, but we have a lot more wifi devices now than we did when I set everything up originally. Getting the wifi off the att fiber router will allow me to specify my own DNS and use openDNS initially, and set up a pi-hole later. I’ve got a stack of wifi routers from the goodwill, some from client sites, and some from estates or yardsales. I’ll use the asus at home for now, and save the ubiquiti for the BOL. That’s the current plan… Or I could just add a couple of ubiquiti UAC access points here and be done with it… I haven’t made a choice yet, which is why it hasn’t been DONE yet.
SWMBO has spoken though so I will be making a choice today.
External deadlines. I needs ’em.
Other than DVDs ripped to my server, I haven’t done much stacking this week. We’ll see what I can do later to improve my situation.
I will say that stacking food and money probably isn’t a bad idea. You should give it a try.
nick