What We Started Selling on eBay Full Time

Pink Ribbons on Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Black & Metallic Gold No Headache SunVisor with sprial lace that does not pinch

American Flag Cool Scarf - Soak in water for 30 minutes and it swells. Put around the neck for a cooling effect for over 12 hours.

Pink Ribbon Shoelaces - Perfect for all those walks and races to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness.

In Feb. 1998 we joined eBay and piddled with it for several years. The most memorable sale was the Poppin' Fresh (Pillsbury Dough Boy) Grandma & Grandpa.

I found them buried in the house among the kids toys (who were grown and gone years ago). I did the research, that was available at that time, and did not find any listed. What did that mean? Nobody wants them or they are rare? We listed them for $9.99 and they sold for $79.00. I was hooked.

We sold & bought things occasionally until we started doing the NM State Fair. Even tho' we were doing the rice necklaces we felt that we needed to round out our offerings. We added the No Headache Sun Visors and the Cool Scarves. After a few years came the Scarves and Shoelaces.

The fair is 17 days long and we had all that merchandise, so we started listing it on eBay. One of our 1st big sales was to a lady in Orlando Florida who bought a selection of the cat & dog scarves to sell as a fund raiser for an Animal Rescue group.

Now we have over 170 different designs of scarves, 100+ different sun visors, 40+ shoelaces and 15+ different cool scarves, most of which are available in multiples at wholesale prices for fundraising and gift giving.

Day 2 RV Travels 2/5/09

Us in the field with the slide out out.

After a great nights sleep we worked some more in getting settled in. Gene's son and wife brought us breakfast/lunch of homemade breakfast burritos wrapped in homemade tortillas. Very yummy - Gene was in 7th heaven eating the food he grew up with.

After we ate it was time to get to busy filling the fresh water tank and hooking up the Direct TV receiver. After several tries Daniel (son) went up onto the roof and see why the satellite dish was not turning. There was no way to check it before we left and Gene was definitely not climbing up there for any reason.

It is stuck so we will have to get it fixed. More than one person has recommended we get a tripod with the dish on it that stands on the ground. We thought it was duplicating what we already have and wanted to try it first. When we get to Florida we will contact Direct TV and have them help us get all set up.

In the meantime we have a very good analog antenna and it will work just fine until we get the other squared away.

DIL - Eileen - and I went grocery shopping and went home to fix dinner. Frito pies with red chile and beans and hot dogs. And a great dessert - vanilla wafers. instant banana cream pudding and bananas layered in a dish. Chilled and just scooped out. No real recipe. Eileen is an excellent cook.

The meat for the chile and beans was venison. The family are big hunters and have a freezers full of antelope, elk and deer. Even Eileen's 9 year old nephew shot both an antelope and deer this past hunting season.

We spent the evening visiting with the family including Genes daughter and grandson and Eileen's mother. We came out to the RV and the gals went crazy looking at and choosing the woven Peruvian earrings we have listed on eBay. They have a friend who is going though chemo and wanted some of our scarves, which are just the right size to cover her head. They took Pink Ribbon scarves in 3 different background colors and a pair of pink ribbon shoelaces.

We went to bed undecided which way we were going to continue east. Back up to Albuquerque and then east on I-40 or south on I-25 to Las Cruces NM where it turns into I-10. The decision was left for the morning when we could really see the 5 day weather reports.