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I guess I'll be rambling for a while here. Just want to warn y'all who don't know me well. LOL Jsan is right, I used to post on a Steelers board that was on USAToday. I was the only girl on there, all the guys were so good. There were only a few Steelers fans, most of the posters liked other teams but we were a fun group so we all gathered there. Some nights I was up half the night, just ROFLing. They were like us, they didn't talk about football that much. We even exchanged a lot of recipes. Without warning, they closed those boards. That was probably 8 years ago and I still miss those guys and think of them often.

OK, to the subject of selling on ebay and collecting! I collect nothing! LOL That's the truth, I have only a few things I own that I wouldn't part with. Heidi, my shih tzu, and a few things that belonged to my grandparents (worthless except to me). I always liked antiques, even when I was a kid. When I was in my early teens, I bought a small table for $3 and carried it all the way home. Refinished it, and I still have it to this day. Back in those days, my mom wasn't into antiques, she liked modern things. Later, my mom started showing interest in antiques and she bought, and bought, and bought. She did some shows and had a room at a flea market but mostly she kept that stuff. Now, let me say this. She wouldn't be on "Hoarders" but there is a fine line between her and them. LOL Which is why, I can part with almost anything. KISA (my DH, who is my Knight In Shining Armor) sometimes wants to keep things I find so I have a few things that he has claimed. Overall, I deal in porcelain, the only thing my mom did NOT deal in because she always broke it. I worked a very full time job but I helped her set up for shows. I wasn't into buying and selling then, my job kept me busy and too tired to be involved in antiques. When we got married, I resigned from my busy job and became a full time Mom (KISA was a widower with 3 boys.) I had always had "my own money" (I started working when I was 6) so I started selling on ebay. My best ebay sale was a Nippon tankard, March 29, 2004. I bought it for $48 and sold it for $3450.00. It was so funny, I had a reserve of $1,000 on it, and it met it's reserve. It was time for it to end, so I went to the computer and hit refresh - KISA was coming down the stairs - and when I saw the final bid I screamed for him to hurry. At the time, we had to get a repair done on our septic tank and glory alleluia that paid for the repair, with some left over! 🙂 Jan and Ruthie probably remember that. But the most fun thing I sold was a Greyhound bus. Oh my, the gang on our chat board that it was so funny that I listed a bus and never mentioned it. It was for a nearby school, a favor for my B-I-L, they used it as their team bus, and they decided to get a new one. After the old one sold, they ended up only paying $300.00 more for their "new" bus! (None of us knew that the bus was very collectible, there were 2 bus museums that were interested in it.)

If you fell asleep, you will be sorry. There will be a pop quiz. 😉

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