That Time EBay Took Over My Life
So there I was … sitting on the bed staring at my £149 pine Ikea wardrobe… it was bursting open and I really needed to have a clear out. I decided it was time. I have never had much of a fashion sense. I just used to keep loads of clothes in my wardrobe in the hope that something was in date. I opened the wardrobe and everything fell out on to the floor… I started to load all the cruddy clothes in to bags… thinking about how nice I am giving back to charity… then I had a lightbulb moment… “Hold on a minute” I thought “I AM CHARITY”, I had a grand total of £4.27 left in my bank and it was 2 weeks till payday. “Why don’t I sell this stuff on eBay?” And that was it. I started getting addicted to listing stuff… I sold all the rubbish clothes I had and the money just kept mounting up… Before I knew it I was addicted…. I then started selling all the clothes that I liked too … I didn’t care. I used to get excited if I got over £7 for a top regardless of how much I liked it. In total I had earnt £367 and I was over the moon. I then started carrying out calculations in my head of how many items I needed to sell to make my first million “It can’t be that many” I thought. Then one day I opened my wardrobe and there was 1 Superdry t-shirt, one Superdry hoody and a pair of jeans left and that was it. I had sold everything I had. I had already spent the £367 so I couldn’t afford any new clothes and had to wear that outfit for quite some time. It was a bit of a nightmare when it was getting washed.. I just couldn’t make any plans for that day. I remember one Saturday I went out in my work clothes on my day off and pretended I had been working.
Now that still didn’t stop me…I was still convinced I was going to be a millionaire but I just wasn’t sure how…. Then that lightbulb moment happened again… I had the wonderful idea to start selling moneybags on eBay. “This idea is great” I thought, I knew I could get them for free from banks and I decided to sell 100 moneybags for a total of £1… I realised that all I need to do is sell 1 million packs of money bags to be a millionaire. How hard can that be right? So on my lunch break I would run to the different banks… and ask for money bags. At first it was fine, I would have to try and go to different banks each dinner time but then the people working at the banks started getting a bit funny… “Must be big that money pot of yours” they said. I laughed along but the next time I went in the banks they all started asking me to prove I had an account there etc…. it was beginning to become hard work and I wondered if it would ever make me my millions…. Not long after that I carried out some calculations then I realised.. I was selling these money bags for a £1… I am paying eBay 19p and Paypal 5p… then because of all the running round I was getting thirsty and buying a can for 79p so… I am making… a grand total of -0.03p … My quest to be a millionaire using eBay stopped that day…
Carla is the founder of MyBump2Baby. Carla has a huge passion for linking together small businesses and growing families. Carla’s humorous, non-filtered honesty has won the hearts of thousands of parents throughout the UK.
She has previously written for the Metro and made appearances on BBC News, BBC 5 live, LBC etc. Carla is a finalist for Blogger of the Year award with Simply Ladies inc. Carla is also the host of the popular Fifty Shades of Motherhood podcast and The MyBump2Baby Expert podcast.
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