I wanted to say, you showed and sold a wooden tray a couple months ago, and since I had one I had not listed, I was inspired to list it. It sat for almost 2 months, and I went back to see what was going on with it, I revised it, switched the main photo, described the colors a little better, it sold the next day. Since I had commented in it, I thought I would update and also let viewers know, if you have a higher profit item that has not sold, if you refresh a few things on it, change pictures around, it will sell.
@@lavenderclothesline Karen, please help ask Ebayers to pray for our military at Kabul Airport home to USA. I am doing so because a dear friend (my first love) has a son at the Airport now. Thanks I don’t know how to do this.
I got 1 of those lane chests when I graduated (class of 80!) and still have mine. It was a gift I believe to ALL the graduating seniors from Lane. We had to go to the Lane store to pick up.
Hi Karen, your videos usually drop just around bedtime in Sunday nights here in Brisbane Australia. It's a nice way to end the weekend. Glad to see you've met someone nice - it had to be a guy who loves reselling as much as you do! 🌄🌿
Definitely a travel ashtray in your first haul. I have a small one that I inherited. Mine is from the 40's. Unusual as it's large..maybe for big cigars? A unique piece 😊😊
Oh that denim boho skirt brings back memories! I had a similar one in the 80s I wore to death with cowgirl boots and a white eyelet lace peasant top. Those were the days!
Great haul, Karen! As usual, you have a great eye. The Indikka brocade coat will easily bring over $100. Thanks for sharing your light-hearted commentary. You always make me smile.
I received a Lane box for graduation! The local furniture store invited us all for an open house and we could get our “color” or “season” (remember when people would hold up different color scarves next to you to see if you looked best in warm or cool colored etc…!) and they served appetizers!
I never shopped for blankets or afghans until I saw you do it. I picked up a blanket that has a police theme with the car and badge and gun but it says New Jersey Police on it so its still sitting in the store but I also bought a 3D afghan and it just sold for 30 dollars plus shipping. I paid four dollars each. So thank you for the tip.
Yes, I do know that sensation, and driving by giant semi-trucks carrying enormous windmill parts is terrifying to me, too. I was on the freeway between a median and a semi, and in the mix-master in Dallas, the semi started to lose control and I narrowly escaped it squishing my 5 kids and me into the concrete wall. I am terrified of giant things that move at 70MPH!!
Hi Karen! Your Venezia Skirt is a Lane Bryant Plus-size brand. I only buy those brands, for true plus-size fit and high quality, (including stretch jeans). Their jeans and pants are $70 and up.
I have had that feeling of moving. Also in a car wash when the equipment starts moving. I have Vertigo, so it can really hit me hard. Another fun and informative video. Thank you!
Hi Karen! Great Video! You are so right about not keeping up with listing. I laughed when you compared it to Goodwill, but it is true. I think you are correct on the round brass item, to me it does look like a cigarette holder. The beaded belt is a gorgeous design!
I received a mini Lane cedar chest with HS graduation. It was given by the Lane company to the female graduates as a promotion. This was 1973 and the idea of a "hope chest" for girls was still a tradition, but soon to die.:)
Hi Karen, I am lucky enough to live 40 minutes away from where Fire & Light was made. I made the orders for the gift shop that I worked in and then got to go and pick it up. Let me tell you the warehouse was amazing. A couple of years ago they closed and that is why the price has SOARED. Just so you know, not all Fire & Light was signed. The dinnerware and serving pieces weren’t signed except for the glasses. My best sale was a Pink Moonstone Platter $1750. I was selling it for my mother in law so she was quite happy with the price. Happy hunting. I love your videos and thank you for the education!
I have my mother's Lane Cedar box from graduating high school; she graduated in 1951 or 52. I have many possessions, but this box is one of my top few most prized possessions. I picked up another one just like it in a thrift store for $2.99 last year with a key and in perfect condition. (I really only bought it to show her). Lol .. the stores you frequent have so much inventory, you are so lucky, but you also have a really good eye. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I visited your ebay store and saw how fairly you price items.. your business model is solid.
I was in a thrift once and they had all these mens suit jackets and I remember you said run your hand down the line of jackets and when one feels different then look at that comp.. I did it and my hand stopped at a made in Italy mens jacket it was very nice and I was impressed how you suggestion worked. I did not buy because I am really not into men suit jackets and I have limited space so I passed but I now use that technique a lot and have found some nice stuff to sell . When I do retail arbitrage at Marshalls or Tj's I'll do one item at a time
I've made out very well just buying for my teenage son. Whenever we're in the Sport jacket section there seems to be an older gent ready to help with size & fit. This kid has cashmere overcoats, cashmere sport coats, Burberry raincoats. I think they just like seeing a young kid appreciate quality.
I picked up ten Kliban cat Danbury Mint plates for $1 each. They sell for $15-20 each plus shipping. Otherwise, I steer clear of collector plates, too. TFS your day with us!
Fire and Light is not always marked. I found my first piece at an estate sale for $2! It was not marked. I posted it on Fire and Light FB group for confirmation as I had no idea. and all replied with a resounding yes! IT IS! Oh my! It is a bottle caddy. You will know it once you find a piece what it feels like.
Karen, your videos are always inspiring and you provide lots of useful information. I just visited my local Goodwill, where I haven't been in over a year, and was so disappointed. It was disorganized, items were in poor condition and most importantly the prices seemed quite high. I saw two things that I am positive were from Dollar Tree, priced $3.50 and $4.00! The clothes racks were jammed so closely together that a cart couldn't fit between them. I opened a handbag and it was full of garbage. While I appreciate your continued enthusiasm for Goodwill I won't be returning anytime soon.
@@samanthab1923 I'll give a new reseller a look--but my standards are pretty high and only a scant few of the newer channels measure up... Not very many of them are appealing to me, so I pretty much stick with the ones I've watched from the beginning. Those that are worth watching aren't equivalent to the number of reseller channels that are new to YT. Additionally, if I feel like I'm not LEARNING anything from their content, I don't waste my time watching.
I did receive a Lane Chest as a Senior in High School (1973). As far as I know, it was just for the girls, and I believe it came from the Lane Company as an advertisement that we should be considering buying a full size chest. I am sure today's girls don't even know what a "Hope Chest" is. I still have mine and it did come with a small key for the lock. So long ago!
I grew up in northern PA (Athens), and received a Lane box at graduation (1981). I did need to go to the local furniture store to pick it up. I don't believe the guys received one. It still have mine, though it's in storage under our stairs. I also have my Mom's (she passed a few years ago).
That floral print top by The Kooples you picked up but put back was nice. I usually pick up that brand that top retailed for over 200 and resells between 50-60
Nice finds Karen! I loved the highway footage. That moving feeling is weird. It happened to me once in an upper level parking deck and I thought we were propelling forward when the car next to us moved backwards, Lol... It certainly can be a strange thing!
I believe that small Lane box was a “freebie “ that one got when purchasing a full size “hope chest”--that’s what they were called in my day (the 1950’s). They were often used to hold gloves or hankies on top of the dresser. We all wore gloves to church, weddings, and funerals, etc. The hope chest was used to hold items for a girls home when she married. Items would include embroidered pillow cases, dresser scarves, baby clothes for the first born, hand made quilts, etc.
Yes, I got the little Lane Cedar box when I graduated in 1982. Good Grief 39 years ago!!! I actually still have it too. 🤣😂 I suppose my box is Vintage....apparently so am I! 😉
Hi Karen! I was so excited to watch your visit to Shillington GW! It is my local GW and I am usually an early bird there but I’ll definitely say hi if I spot you there sometime!! 🤗
We got the Lane chests from a local furniture store. They wanted you to come back for your Hope chest. I graduated from high school in 1973. It’s on my dresser now. I think the item you thought might be an ashtray is actually a cigarette butler. You took it around to the ashtrays and emptied the ashes into the butler.
I watch youtube resellers what sold vids and the will say how long they had an item and they can tell by the background they used in the pics up to 5 years . Gemini thrifts says " everything sells everything eventually sells", If that blue glass angel was murano and very polished bottom helps identify that could be worth money
Hey sis, I thought your hair was cute! Very youthful looking and really showed off your face. You have great bones! My mother graduated in the late ‘50’s and received one of those boxes. 😁
There were 8 glasses! Another one on a bottom shelf. I kinda liked those for summer. Hard to find a nice large set in good condition. Oh you passed some nice hand thrown pottery dishes. I would have bought a few pieces depending on condition, especially the bowls. I hate Xmas crapolla. You found some great stuff. Love the beaded belt. Love the Chaps vest you didn't pick up. Since this video has been uploaded for our perusal, you didn't get buried under a house belting down the highway! Thank goodness for that. What would I watch with my Sunday AM coffee and morning sloth? (I am so selfish lol) Have a good day Karen.
The pre-fab units on the semi trailer did look a little bouncy but they secure those units very tightly - they're not going anywhere unless the semi crashes ... any big semi going fast on the highway is a little scary for me!
The owls were black walnuts. I know what you mean about list before you shop, but I am a part-time reseller and Saturday is really my only day to pick things up. I went to yard sales yesterday, logged what I got, cleaned, photographed and listed 3 things. Just a dint, but something!
My high school gave us an ad/brochure from Lane (for the girls) offering them a free cedar box, similar to that one, as a sort of mini hope-chest (like the large ones Lane sold). They were free, I think. I didn't bother to pick up mine. In the second store, the dancing couple plates were not decorative plates--they were dinner plates. My parents had a few left over from my Grandmother. I forget what make they were, but I know they weren't valuable.
Hi Karen! Yes, in 1980 I received a Lane chest as a graduation gift from my school. I don’t remember what the guys received though. Thank you for your videos!
My husband still has his Lane chest from High School, Hazard, Kentucky. He graduated in 1970. I think everyone received one in his graduating class. I graduated from a High School in Atlanta, Georgia in the same year, we got nothing.
I have had that sensation of moving when I’m not moving at a traffic light when a bus starts going or some other large vehicle next to me and I have pushed down harder on the brake, 😂
I believe that spray painted lamp was painted by a retail store before throwing the lamp away to keep trash pickers from taking it to resell it. You see the retailers spraying or otherwise destroying all things they throw in the dumpsters which is a shame.
Yes, Thanks for your videos and putting yourself out there to help us all in the biz. You missed the purple plush Peeps , an easy flip and simple ship. I likely would've taken a peak at the Tansy leather kit- flipped one not long ago but it was new and complete for $50.
While I don't know why you went so hard after the truck driver you might be interested to know that those trailers are designed specifically for this purpose allowing enough flex to accommodate for the bumpy roads. They're strapped down more securely than most mini Van's with the cargo travelers on top. Next time people complain about a trucker, remember, you'd have little without them.
Nantucket basket! The (women's) clothes! The shoes! The sports stuff! The knick-knacks I see that are not what you want to sell through your store!! How on earth do these items end up in PA Goodwill? When I lived in a well-to-do suburb in Maryland (Annap., Wash. DC & Balt.), I never found such amazing merchandise. Granted, it's been some years but I gave up shopping GW because everything was such junk. The sort of stuff Karen finds in GW I found in consignment shops so the prices outside my $14/hr wage. Good for L'der C'line and all other resellers who find such treasure for their resale businesses.
I don't understand what you mean when you said, "the weight on that, by time the buyer paid, I don't know if there would be any profit on it" (it was at the second location when you were looking at that leather tool kit by the games. If the buyer is paying shipping for that or any item why wouldn't you be making a profit? Are you thinking you would have to price low so it would sell because of the higher shipping cost?? I'm confused.
One of the things I watch for now in Christmas is those shelf/mantel stocking holders. Esp. ones of heavy, good quality, and if you can get them in matching sets of 3 or more even better. It's one of those items thrift stores have not yet caught on to being worth much and I can often pick them up fairly cheaply and flip them for a good profit.
