Wednesday 31 July 2013

84 - Sell all Your Junk on eBay and Make a Profit

Well, not sure about profit, does that mean sell it for more than I bought it? Anyway, I've always sold lots of junk on ebay and now that I need some money I am having a clearout.


Ebay doesn't seem to be as good as it was, this morning I sold a Nintendo Wii and all its bits on Gumtree. I am also selling other bits and pieces. Strangely even that kind of put me out of my comfort zone,having a stranger turn up outside my side to buy something from me. Naturally paranoid I was imagining him giving me fake money or grabbing the items and running. As it turns out he was a super polite Muslim man and its Ramadhan so that lessens the chance of wrong being done to me. :D 

Selling at a car boot sale I think I neglected to put on the list, I will add it now, that was supposed to be on the list and I am going on Sunday and I am going to find some trash to sell :D

Meanwhile, take a look at my Etsy shop, this stuff isn't junk!

http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AmaziahJewellery




Monday 29 July 2013

Welcome to Kick the Bucket (LIST!) 

I'm 25 and on a mission, every week I want to post AT LEAST 1, if not more things 'to do before you die' here,rarely they will be big things like seeing a certain country, weekly if I haven't yet accomplished anything it may be something small like volunteering at a homeless shelter. 

I bought a book called 101 things to do before you die (Richard Horne) which inspired me, also have a book of 365 things to do in London, so I will also be going to and posting about those places of interest.

I realise that I will not be taking my experiences with me when I die, I realise that life isn't about filling your time with meaningless acts of entertainment, however I do think I will learn a lot from stepping out of my comfort zone and getting things done. 

Well I shall see you this week when I have accomplished some things, in the mean time, here are some of the things from the bucket list (private things unfortunately I will not be posting about ;) Some I have done but may do again with evidence for the blog.


Richard Horne's list
  1. 1     Write a Novel 
    2     Swim With Sharks 
    4     Catch A Fish With Your Bare Hands
    5     Make a Discovery
    6     Throw A House Party When Your Parents Are Out - don't live with them so may have to find alternative
    7     Eat Exotic Foods 
    9     Learn that instrument 
    11   storm chase a tornado
    15   Stage Dive or Crowd Surf
    19   Master Poker and Win Big in a Casino
    23   Get Arrested
    24   See a Space Shuttle Launch
    25   Capture the Moment in an Award-winning Photograph
    26   Bungee Jump
    28   Sky Dive 
    31   Experience Weightlessness
    32   See the Aurora Borealis
    33   Get to Score a Hole in One
    35   Play a Part in Your Favorite TV Show
    40   Get a Free Upgrade on a Plane
    43   Throw a Dart into a Map and Travel to Where it Lands
    45   Do a Runner From a Fancy Restaurant
    46   Scuba Dive
    47   Milk a Cow 
    48 Be present when your team wins the cup
    49   See Both Solar and Lunar Eclipses 
    50   Write Your Name Over a Star on the Walk of Fame
    53   Complete a Coast to Coast Road Trip Across America
    56   Gatecrash A Fancy Party
    62   Join the Mile High Club
    65   Shout ‘Drinks Are on Me!’ in a Pub or Bar
    67   Visit (a list of iconic places around the world) 
    72   Have Enough Money to Do All the Things on This List
    73   Stand on the International Date Line
    76   Invent Something
    77   Learn Astronomy and Read the Night Sky
    78   Drink a Vintage Wine
    79   Answer a Personal Ad - COMPLETED
    81   Get Barred From a Pub or Bar
    82   Build Your Own House
    84   Sell all Your Junk on eBay and Make a Profit 
    85   Visit the World’s Tallest Buildings 
    86   Run a Marathon 
    89   Learn to Cook 
    90   Join the 16-Mile High Club  
    93   Complete the Monopoly Board Pub Crawl
    95   Get Revenge
    96   Be an Extra in a Film
    97   Live Out of a Van 
    99   Confess
    100 Reach 100 Years of Age

    Things that I want to do 
    1 Holi festival (ideally in India, will settle for elsewhere for now)
    2 Go to a music festival
    3 Go camping abroad
    4 learn to ride a bike...yes..I know...
    5 volunteer at a homeless shelter
    6 give my shoes / item of clothing to homeless
    7 sleep in a hammock
    8 learn to sew
    9 complete a month of fasting
    10 make a blog / video channel of healthy food recipes
    11 own an allotment to grow vegetables (house with garden if sooner)
    12 High ropes course
    13 Survival skills training
    14 jet ski
    15 drive a speed boat
    16 volunteer at a farm
    17 volunteer at a cattery
    18 dance in a thunderstorm
    19 learn to horseride
    20 Horse ride along the beach
    21 Ice bar
    22 sleep in the desert - watch sunset and sunrise
    23 give toys to childrens hospitals
    24 give blood ( not a good previous experience) 
    25 meditate with monks
    26 plant a tree
    27 make soap
    28 record a song with someone
    29 make home made beauty products
    30 go raw for at least 2 weeks
    31 make a million
    32 own and rent property
    33 properly launch jewellery business
    34 set up own womens project in Africa
    35 business to feature in fashion magazines
    36 own chickens
    37 learn to bellydance
    38 write a cook book 
    39 get a picture with drag queens
    40 beach party
    41 sleep on the beach
    42 go to a blues jazz bar
    43 open air cinema
    44 find somewhere in london that sells Krest
    45 try; salsa, pole dancing, burlesque dancing
    46 have a market stall
    47 send a message in a bottle 
    48 (ironically) help clean a beach or other environment
    49 nudist beach
    50 absailing
    51 learn to ride a motorbike (even if i never get one)
    52 ride a segway
    53 go on a safari
    54 touch a lion
    55 go on a roadtrip
    56 go fishing 
    57 swim in a lagoon
    58 ride a rickshaw
    59 look good in a bikini
    60 go hiking
    61 no technology for a week
    62 read in the library
    63 perform spoken word at a poetry bar
    if i think of more ill post them :D