A collector of MANY things since a teenager, from clocks, paintings, drawings and sculptures, seashells and fossils, autographs and books! I call all of my goodies my JUNK or TREASURES, meaning anything that I really like and find inspiration in!
I have degrees as a scientist (palaeontologist = fossils) and the research skills carry over in ALL of the goodies which I still collect.
A lot of the things in my collections have animal motifs. Beanies and plush bears are cute and imaginative, relatively inexpensive and fun! I also raise Seal Point Siamese and Sphynx cats, and have a Koi pond with some really big fish!
I taught science for over 30 years, from the grade school level to graduate courses at a Spanish University -- and recently retired due to disability, thus allowing me more time to dedicate to my hobbies. My sales of toys, books from my personal library, art works and other items from my nearly 50 years of collecting helps pay the PILES of bills which the pension falls short of covering! Unfortunately, while still teaching, I used my credit cards to their limits, and I can never seem to keep up with the continuing monthly payments, which like God, seem to be infinite!
And PLEASE remember that a friend, who MAY visit once or twice a week, does me a non-paid favor and takes my stuff to the post office for shipping (as mentioned in my winner's email) -- I RARELY leave the apartment due to my arthritic hip - and relatively recently developed computer butt. Your new goodies are ALWAYS sent as quickly as is humanly possible. IF you are in a really big hurry, along with your payment send me a FUNCTIONAL Star Trek teleporter module for instantaneous teleporting (please send module REGISTERED to ensure delivery!).
And would you believe that I really have fun at this eBay thing (just about the ONLY "fun" I have these days!)? I feel that someone else is getting an item which has meaning for me and was a part of my life in some way, and it does give me a nice warm feeling inside to think that another person will continue enjoying some my stuff even after I am gone <<sniff>> !
It takes me MANY sleepless nights to do a batch of my item descriptions (I do NOT have helpers for the descriptions, end-of-item details, packing and paperwork -- EXCEPT for the shipping part), and I always attempt to make the blurbs as informative, and sometimes as humorous as possible, within socially/politically-incorrect norms (you may have noticed?) -- always experimenting with different fonts, COLORS and formats to present them as pleasant to graze as I can. MOOOOOOOOOO
And PLEASE do NOT refer in your feedback to what you win as MERCHANDISE and that you thouroughly enjoyed your BUSINESS transaction! I am anything BUT a merchant or business man, and I am ONLY offering my own personal treasures 1) to help pay off some of my many recurring bills and feed the kittys 2) I could use the room and don't want to break a leg tripping over the goodies 3) since I rarely go out, it gives me something to do 4) it helps me take my mind off of the loads of things, perhaps MORE pressing, that I never seem to get around to doing - thanks to eBay!
I have been a computer aficionado since Apple first came out with the MAC in the 80s, and use my
Mac for my eBay descriptions and web site (see below). Since I am definitely NOT MENSA material, I wouldn't know html is it byte me -- so I use Adobe PageMill to do my web pages and eBay item blurbs FOR ME, to share them with others (incidently, you too can find this fabulous easy-to-use software right here on eBay, and usually at a really great price!) My web domain is over 4 years old, and has developed from several pages of things I am interested in to a virtual labyrinth of subjects and hopefully useful FREE information which is updated regularly. Hey -- and none of those cutesy shopping carts or paid advertising crap on MY site! (dumb me, huh?)
On An Eclectic Experience you will find all kinds of personal tidbits about me and my collections - as well as my own brand of humor and somewhat meticulous sense of presentation. And while you are there, CHECK OUT what I hope may be helpful hints for successful online * buying * selling * trading *, including auctions, WITH samples of forms for organizing your activities and cataloging your collections. I added a section on the PITFALLS of online deals, just to give you an idea of what may go wrong -- and sometimes does!! Boy, do I ever have to update THAT part one of these days!