So what has happened in the last three years…..hmmm…..

Well, the most significant and wonderful thing is that I became a mummy!  I have a beautiful little girl called Bailey and she is 17 months!  She is a little firecracker and keeps me and my husband very entertained!  She is so fun!  LOVE her!

So, I think I have began to think about selling on eBay again as a result of getting pretty fed up of all the clutter in my house.  I have been very close to just throwing it all out but I have known deep down that all of the clutter, more than likely has the potential to be a nice little earner!  If you note the date of this post, it is very close to Christmas and selling some unwanted goods on eBay is better than selling a kidney to pay for all the festivities! ;D

Over the last few years I have found myself becoming a bit more creative in making money and spending it smartly!  Before Bailey was born, I began to sort through all of the clutter and decided what could be sold.  I guess I was ‘nesting’!!  I decided that I would fill some big black bags with items either for ‘eBay’ or ‘Car Boot’.  I managed to go to a local car boot sale and sold all of the items, making £100!!  This then paid for all of the things we needed for Baileys arrivial, such as muslin, change mat, cotton buds ect! All those little items add up so it was great to have that cash to use on it!

It has taken me ages however to get going with selling everything else on eBay….  I think this is hugely to do with my confidence in using eBay.  I’m sure there are others out there similar to me, where you feel completely put off using something that is computer and internet based and freak out at the thought of “clicking on the wrong thing and it all going wrong and not having a clue how to fix it”!!!  I am very blessed with a husband who is very computer savvy and he keeps me right but I have to say that I am getting much more confident but maybe I am just more determined than ever to get rid of the clutter and make some cash!

I hope to post about how I have been getting on with my attempts at selling on eBay and any other fun creative money saving/making ideas!  I also think that I will post about some nice things that I find that are fun ways to be creative and just interest me really!! )  Not sure how often? Although maybe sooner that 3 years eh!! ;o)  How often do you blog?  Is it worth doing every day?  Maybe every week?  What are your thoughts?  Would be nice to hear what others do.  Maybe you have some good ways of blogging that you could share with us newbies? I’m planning on using my wordpress app on my mobile so when I’m out for coffee and Bailey is sleeping, I can pop a wee post up!

So lets see how it goes!!…..

Have a wee look at my hubby’s blog over at http://blog.kitdrummer.com/

Well, so far I have managed to get this blog up and running.  I’m quite excited as so far I have actually got two subscribers and I have only been going for two days!!  Thats one a day!!  Would be nice if I had three subscribers after today, my third day!  Maybe I should be aiming a little higher?  Maybe, but this is a year of achieving goals and I want to make them achievable.  Even getting this far, I’m impressed!  A wise person I know said “what gets measured, gets done”.  If I think I can manage to even start a blog and get it going then I have achieved a good bit.  If I get a few subscribers, then I get a nice surprise which boosts me to progressing a little further…….

Hopefully, this blogging journey will last and we’ll see where it takes me and those of you following it!!

I thought this image that Zemanta suggested was really funny!

Ok, so I thought you might like a little insight into my Ebay adventure….picture it….I’m about to try and win my first Ebay Auction…don’t have a clue what I’m doing…it’s the only ‘Mario vs Donkey Kong’ on Nintendo DS available in the U.K… Christmas is coming waaay to quickly!!….my husband is right next to me telling me what to do…..but I still don’t have a clue…not because my husband doesn’t know what he is doing, I am just far too nervous to be listening properly!! Typical woman some of you might be thinking!!!  I know I hear you!! 

Well, I’ll say no more!!  Watch and enjoy!! (Maybe I should get into video blogging??  Might be a bit more entertaining than my writing after all!!  Let me know!!)

So why bother with a blog?  Well, I guess I think I might have a little something to offer.  I know that I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in my writing abilities and even speaking abilities and I am sure that I am not the only one.  So I thought that I could blog about a variety of things that I might like to give a try.  Its 2009 and I’d quite like to have tried a few different things by the end of this year.  

I began to think about this at the end of last year.  I think it all started in December when I was trying desperately to buy my nephews Nintendo DS Games online for their Christmas gifts.  I think I was trying to buy Limited editions or at least it felt like it!!  It felt impossible to buy products online!  It firstly took me ages to source them, then I was trying to find the bargains and compare them all, then they all went out of stock and then…..the dreaded EBAY!!!  I really did not have much of a clue how to use it and being too scared to use it, I reluctantly made bids and kept losing!!  I reckon I lost due to fear of not getting a good enough bargain and not knowing what to do if I actually won the thing!!  My poor husband had his ear well and truly ‘nipped’ (as we say in Scotland) as to how to work Ebay!!

This really got me thinking, I need to get an understanding of all of this!  How long has Ebay been going for and I STILL don’t know how to use it!!  Also, how many of us are out there who really are not sure how to use Ebay and even just shopping online??  Do we really want to ask for help as we feel like we should know by now and were not necessarily ’Silver Surfers’. We’re young and should be a bit more ‘with-it’.  Well that’s certainly how I felt so I thought I would blog about my progress online and venturing into the world of the internet!