Finally! Mental Health Progress

Life July 12, 2017 1 Comment

It finally happen Y’all! My husband has agreed to see a therapist! I don’t write here enough about it. I mentioned in the past that he has been having high anxiety and OCD tendencies. He has been like this for at least 4 months and it just felt forever. I love my husband but just watching him suffer hurts me. If you have a love one who is literally begging you to see one then you probably should think of it. Even if it will cost money.

Unfortunately we will have to wait until August for his initial consultation. The office we want to go to is very busy. Also Nevada doesn’t exactly have a good system in mental health so finding a decent doctor is hard. Let’s hope we get a good one because I just want him to stop having so much anxiety.

If you just stumbled onto this page because of this title only, let me tell you a little about my husband. He does have a history of ADD. He went through many doctors, medications to get his ADD in control. Unfortunately I think around high school he wanted to stop taking medication. So he did and has done pretty good without it until now. I have a feeling we will have to go through tests and I’m not familiar with it. Especially since he is an adult. Let’s hope everything works out and I can’t wait for the first appointment. If you have anything to say that is HELPFUL to comment feel free to comment below. I do have to approve comments since I do not pay for spam not to be posted.

 

My Car, And Slump Of Sales

Life July 2, 2017 Comments: 2

I’m experiencing the summer slump of sales eBay. At first I started to miss the extra money my former part time job brought in then I just realized I didn’t get much hours in the summer either. Which is why I’m thankful we have a small savings account for unexpected expenses.

It’s so hot right now that I haven’t been thrifting out as much. I purchased a small wholesale lot from a well respected instagram reseller and it will be on its way soon. Which means I have to list everything else before it comes. Besides that part of my life, my car has been having trouble.

As of now we probably put in nearly $650 on it for a bunch of testing and repairs. Ouch… we paid it and now I’m more confident in driving my car. It turned off while we were at a stop sign. My anxiety definitely showed up. I didn’t realize how much anxiety when I had my son with me. See if I was by myself I tend to not worry. Yet with a baby in the back, I started to worry. I didn’t have my AAA card and it was hot outside. Worse time to be stuck like that. Luckily my husband was with me and there was a gas station nearby. My car started eventually and we immediately brought it to our auto mechanic. It was bunch of things like the battery, and something with the electrical, plus we needed to replace brake pads too. Now I make sure to have my AAA card with me.

I’m On Poshmark & Update On Life

Running A Business June 26, 2017 Leave a comment

I know I haven’t been active lately. Though I am more active on instagram here @maithriftsthings. So head on over there if you want to see more activities. That instagram account is more about my reseller life so if you are not interested in that, don’t head on there. Besides that, I opened a poshmark account.

I’m not really sharing my store names. I’m sorry but after finding out how awful people can be to try ruin your reputation with these online selling outlets, I’m keeping them a secret. I will be happy to answer comments though about what I do in reselling ( I only work part time hours on it). Besides there are more resellers out there who are more open with their store so using mine as a way to learn is horrible idea. Plus I still don’t know what I’m doing most of the time.

Yes I’m finally on poshmark because I keep hearing how clothing sellers should be on there. I’ve only been there a few weeks so I can’t say if I like it more than eBay. Though my experience has been positive. Sales have been slow ( it’s summer slow down everywhere) yet my sales are slow because I focus more on eBay. The sharing aspect of poshmark is still something I’m learning.

$18.00 Per Hour To Rent A 2 Bd Home

Thoughts on $ June 14, 2017 Leave a comment

Head on over to Business Insider to find out how much it cost to rent a 2 bedroom home in your state.

I would say that seems about right. Currently Las Vegas is at that stage again where it’s cheaper to buy a home than it is to rent. I have friends and family members who are looking to buy a home. Rent is going up and to them it doesn’t make sense to pay that much money when they can buy a home with more space. Las Vegas is a very volatile market in real estate so I would be very careful to buy if you are not planning to live here for a while. We lucked out on ours because we bought ( I sold my townhome) during the recession.

Is the map accurate for your area?

Online Seller Update

$ Monthly Progress June 3, 2017 Leave a comment

Hey everyone. I hope your weekend is going great. I just wanted to update a little about sales on eBay. For May my total (meaning sales+shipping) was $1850.00. The summer slow down is here. Luckily I paid off our small debt for our computer, and able to pay other things with that still.

It’s been a few weeks of quitting my part time job and I don’t miss it. I do miss some people. For example the managers at Albertsons & Dollar Tree were very helpful and accomodating. The ones are Walmart were can I say… ugh. If you are new here my part time job was a merchandiser for a separate company. I did not work at these stores as employees but as a vendor. I still had to follow certain rules and got to look what goes on in the back scene. Overall my experience was generally good.

Here’s wishing to great sales on the weekend!

Some Updates

Life May 30, 2017 Leave a comment

I haven’t been in a good place emotionally which is why I haven’t updated in a while. Something is currently going in my family which is currently under investigation. Finding out about this brings tears to my eyes and has put me through periods of daze and emotional pain. Which is why I decided to leave my part time job.

I think I mentioned that I was planning to leave since I had to choose between it and eBay. While my job gave me the freedom to come in when I want to it still took family time. eBay definitely takes time too but I’m able to turn it off when needed as oppose to someone depending on me. Since I was going in my job just sad and sometimes crying I thought it was best to leave earlier than expected.

Moment Of “Uhh What?”

Thoughts on $ May 15, 2017 Leave a comment

I met with a friend I hadn’t seen in forever after having Calvin. Though I think what I said to her probably won’t make her want to schedule a get together anymore. I thought I should mention it because it is finance related. I really don’t care how people spend their money. Yes I will judge when they complain because when I say things it’s because my insight is probably something they didn’t think about.

Anyways my said friend was asking me if there was a way to bypass pandora’s ads appearing during music. I told her why don’t you just pay the $3.99 a month to bypass it. I know that comes out to $48 a year but to my family it’s money worth spending because we listen to it for hours everyday. She then tells me she doesn’t want to spend the money monthly. She then starts to down a  $12.00 cocktail. Which I pointed out the money spent on a $12.00 cocktail was  3 months worth of ads free music. Yup …. which she downed in half an hour.