ONLINE AUCTIONS!

Wow! I'm totally addicted to an online auction site!  It's like constantly being at an auction ALL the time! The great part about this concept is that I can be a seller AND a buyer at any time of the day or night! 

Here's one of the items I'm selling today.  It's a tapestry pillow cover in almost perfect condition.  There's one teeny-tiny loose thread that can be worked back into the piece.  The back is Muslin and it has a zipper to open and close the case for a 27" pillow!

I don't see any surrounding towns doing this for their area.  There are many Online Garage Sales, but only one auction in my area.  The problem with those sale groups is I'm always too late to get an item.  You have to luck into grabbing anything up.  ...I need time to think about how much I'll pay and if I really need the item.

For the local Online Auction site, if the participants can't meet up for "the trade" on their own, they can meet at the park on Sunday.  All buyers and sellers are encouraged to private message each other to make arrangements.  I personally love for people to swing by my house to pick up their items since I live in a very visible place in town. 

It's exhilarating for money to walk into the house with such little effort! All I have to do is take the photos and post the item from my arm chair.  Then when the deadline comes up, I mark the item sold and make arrangements for pick up!  Simple!  If something doesn't sell, I can save it and repost it later.  No fees...no postage...no packing!

This is a perfect job for me while I'm at home taking care of my Mother.  God has a plan...all I have to do is pick up on his clues and follow up!  This verse comes to mind when I think about the position I'm currently in and the worries I've had in the past.

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:28-34 NIV

What a great peace of mind I get from these passages!  ...and there are so many more passages for me to lean on.  How great is that!