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Posted By: Carla Ball <ckball@earthlink.net> In Response To: A business opportunity for the chronically organized :-) (Cathy Bryant)
Thursday, 23 February 2006, at 4:26 p.m.
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I have a freind that does estate sales. She a a antique shop, plus she travels to Gatlinburg and Knoxville, ( 6 hour drive from here) to fill a booths she rents in antique malls. She goes into the house and reorganizes and prices it, sets it up for a 2 day sale. She charges 20% of the total, she made $800 from my sale, she spent about 50-60 hours all together. She also sells on ebay, she gets a lot of items from the sales. At the end of the sale, she has other auctioneers to come in and buy everything that is left-everything and broom clean it. Not bad for 5 6 days of work. She has been doing this for years, so she has a call list and lots of contacts. As with any business, it all takes time.
Just thought I'd throw this out for what it's worth -
> I am currently in the process of working with a professional organizer to
> help me cull through what has become a nightmare of
> "possessions" in my home. I'm not organized by nature, although
> I always managed to keep a handle on it, but now I've taken in a great
> deal of stuff from two additional households over the last few years (my
> late in-laws as well as now a lot of items from my father's house, much of
> which needs to be redistributed among siblings but of course ended up at
> my house since I'm the only girl) and it just got away from me.
> Anyway, I finally accepted the fact that I needed professional help and
> this gal is just SUPER! She's also very expensive, but well worth the
> cost.
> So for those of you who really LOVE to organize things...and it was a
> shock to me to see how much some people really find this fun :-) ... I
> would highly recommend that if a home-based business is something you're
> interested in, you might want to consider this as a possibility.
> I'm sure there's lots of information out there on how to get started, but
> my recommendation would be to begin with the National Association of
> Professional Organizers (I've linked to the website below) and go from
> there.
> Cathy
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