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Pin This To Your Face

Have you seen the Wal-Mart commeercial with the young girl telling Dad “we can pin, post, tweet, snap, tag, text & share”? Yeah, sometimes I feel about as confused as her dad looks. But these are things we baby boomers need to learn about. In my case, I need to learn how to use these avenues because I have an eBay store, oohshinycollectibles (shameless promotion #1). I’ve been selling on eBay for 2 years now, and boy, has it been a learning experience. Here are my products, how do I get people to see them? We’ve all mastered email, but email seems to be going the way of the dinosaur, get with it people! So I have a Facebook page dedicated to OohShiny Collectibles (shameless promo #2), a Pinterest page appropriately named  oohshinycollectilbes (SP #3), the aforementioned eBay store (SP #4 or SP #1 x 2) and this blog that I’ve been neglecting because, well, who has time to sit down and type up a blog? Oh yeah, stop rescuing so many Farm Heroes and you might be able to squeeze a little blogging in. Priorities. I’ve been mulling over some things I’d like to write about, things I’ve learned in the past 2 years of my OohShiny (shameless promo #5) experiences. Hopefully, you’ll start reading more blogs from me. Feel free to comment. Learning together is fun.

http://stores.ebay.com/oohshinycollectibles

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About The Shiny….

Hello, and welcome to OohShinyCollectibles. Whether you’ve stumbled through here accidentally or you’re a facebook friend, twitter follower, or just a garden variety creeper,  you might be wondering, just what is a shiny? Here’s the deal: I get easily distracted. I’ll be looking at one thing and then all of a sudden, notice something else and my attention is immediately drawn to the new “shiny”. It doesn’t matter what it is. Could be jewelry, could be food on a menu. I see something, then I see something better, something shinier! When it happens and my husband is with me, he says, “Ooh shiny!” Thus, the name of my blog, and my business, OohShinyCollectibles.

I started the business OohShinyCollectibles to sell collectibles and antiques, primarily on ebay. They’re my favorite type of shiny! I’ve been selling for about 3 weeks now and it’s been interesting, frustrating, fun, and at times a little crazy. I thought I’d just buy some stuff, put it on ebay, someone would buy it, I’d pack it up and sell it. Simple, right? Ah, noooo. Is anything ever that simple? Ah…no…..

Up to now, I’ve collected a good variety of items to sell. China, glassware, pottery, figurines, old magazines, old records, they’ve all become my “shiny”.

What’s your shiny?