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Ebay Your Items – Learn How to Price Items for Online Sale

How to Get the Most from Selling Your Items

You want to Ebay, or otherwise sell you goods, online.  But, how do you know what price to list it at?  A great place to search values is on www.Ebay.com  Log-in using your Ebay ID and begin to list your item.  Mind you, you’re not going to really list it until you’re ready (with photos and description).  Scroll down past the title and description area to “price”  click on the highlighted link for “search completed listings,” enter your item name (search with 2-3 different descriptive words), and browse the prices of recently completed listings.  If an item sold at a price you desire, look at the description to see if it matches yours.  If yours is of better quality, you should list it higher, and visa versa.  

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Swine Flu / H1N1 or Any Virus or Bug

Taking Care of Your Family

Over the past several days I’ve had questions posed to me about the most recent viral explosion on the human population and how to clean their home.  As a mom of elementary-age children, viruses and bacteria enter my house DAILY!

My first line of defense is handwashing when Entering the house.  As far as the children go, their school clothes go in the laundry daily.  If clothes can’t be washed, steam them or put them through the dryer on a medium setting – cook the little bugs!

Each time I clean a room, special cosideration goes to areas of high use.  This is especially true at the first signs that a “bug” has entered the house – sneezing, coughing, fever or intestinal issues.  I use a disinfectant cleaner on a cloth or paper towel and clean these areas first:

• Bathroom - Handles, switches, sink, cabinet edges, toilet.
• Kitchen – Sink, countertops, appliance handles and controls, switches & knobs.
• Common Areas – Switches, knobs, controllers, phones & keyboards.

I’ve done this routine so often that I can sanitize each room within just a few minutes.  It has stopped many a bug in its tracks!

Can I Make Him Be More Organized?

Make a Short & Simple "To Do" List

 

Make sure that the areas YOU want HIM to be better at are organized first.  What I mean is make sure the items he’s to use and put back are always in the same place, grouped together, labeled (if you can) and easy to reach.  For Example:

• Toilet paper, diapers, personal items/medicines, food/pantry If these areas are a mess it will be hard for him to find items.  Men like to hunt, but not in the house.
• Clothes drawers (I label inside my children’s clothes drawers at the top)  I use shoe boxes or clear boxes without the lid to house small items in drawers. You can even wrap those with coordinating fabric & hot glue it on to create a custom look inside your drawers.
• Keys/wallet/glasses, etc. Pick one place and stick to it.  Like at the doorway, kitchen shelf, or on his dresser  in a small basket or a masculine box.
• Brief Case & personal bags – bring them to the bedroom to be unloaded or train the children to do it for him as a game when Daddy comes home!
• Laundry:  Keep empty hangers accessible in the closet for hanging up coats on a daily basis. 
  • Semi-clean clothes to be worn again can go on 1 shelf or small basket inside closet – folded would be great, but that may be a bit much. 
  • Dirty clothes have 1 basket in bedroom or bathroom.  Unless sorting and doing laundry is his game – maybe don’t ask him to go that far (yet). 
  • Your laundry room should have labels on the sorting bins.  I like to group Whites (bleachable), Reds/Purples/Deep Oranges & Pinks, Colors/Patterns, Darks, Delicates, and towels if the room is big enough.  If not, 3 groups work: Whites, Colors, Darks. 
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