I am someone who shudders at the very idea of trailing around the shops looking for that elusive, very special, and totally unique item, in the perfect
size/colour/flavour/fragrance/height/width/length/price-bracket (enter your own nemesis here), only to find some hours later when going back to buy the very first object viewed, that it has already been sold . . . . Arghhhh . . . . hysteria threatens!
Then I discovered online auctions in 2006, and have been serenely buying and selling online ever since.
I am a grandmother who has also had other caring obligations for many years, so the internet is a marvellous shopping tool for me. It saves soooo much time. I am learning to play the mandolin, but slowly, as it isn’t always appropriate to subject others to my inept fumblings, so I don’t practice as much as I should.
My other great passion is knitting. I taught myself to use a knitting machine some years ago, and then taught myself to knit by hand – just to finish edges and necklines nicely.
Finally, I found some old circular knitting needles that belonged to my own (long-gone) grandmother with some knitting already on them. I played around with these for a few hours and was hooked! (No pun intended)
Now I do all my knitting by hand, as it’s completely portable, and can be done more or less anywhere and at anytime. Plus, it doesn’t make the racket that my mandolin practicing does. I have a massive collection of knitting needles, mostly circular, and, of course, a huge yarn stash, as I can’t resist buying ‘just a little’ of anything pretty that catches my eye.
I buy a bit here and there, and sell a bit off when I run out of space. I’m happy to sort things out if my buyers have a problem, and I like to think that this works both ways if I have a problem.
I don’t have any pets and my home is a non-smoking household, so anything that I sell is as clean and fresh as I would want it to be if I were buying it for myself.
So, that’s me in a nutshell.
(I have also bought and sold on eBay - please see my feedback below)
