Blog
Write-ups across all four properties — newest first.
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Welcome to the Shed Flips blog
A written companion to the YouTube channel — hauls, what sold, what flopped, and the strategy behind both.
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I'm Gonna Pack It eBay's AI live-show ads are driving us crazy — should we finally try Whatnot?
Mid-week pack day spent half-arguing with myself about whether to give live selling a try, half-roasting eBay for using AI-generated thumbnails on every single one of its live-show ads.
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Shed Flips Why we stopped shipping eBay orders every day
Same-day handling is best for eBay sales. We don't do it. Here's the schedule we actually run, the carrier-pickup constraint that locks it in, and why two-day handling has been the right trade for our setup.
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I'm Gonna Pack It This pack was challenging — but so worth it
Friday afternoon Part 2 — picking up after the four-box encyclopedia run, capped by a vintage Bombay Company mahogany death-desk briefcase that wanted custom-cut cardboard, and Candice's $5 yard-sale purse that just shipped out for $80.
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Shed Flips We bought 30+ beer tap handles for $150
Friday garage-sale haul — nine sales in four hours, and one of them carried the day. A New Orleans-heavy beer-tap-handle collection, a stack of vintage sci-fi paperbacks, three vintage signs, and a $5 mystery jewelry box.
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Shed Flips Things got kinda crazy in the shed today
21 eBay orders, one Mercari bundle, and two trash bags of $10-filler-bag yarn dumped on the floor — a full shipping-and-listing day in the shed.
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I'm Gonna Pack It 13 eBay orders today — from a $47 soup spoon to a 100-lb encyclopedia set
Part 1 of a 40-order Monday pack day. The soup spoon is the cheapest box, the 1961 Collier's encyclopedia set is the heaviest — and the shipping math on the encyclopedias was the real puzzle of the day.
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Lonnie & Ryan Popeye's Postcards: $10,000 for a million postcards (and the man flew across the country to buy them)
Episode 15 — John from Popeye's Postcards on flying cross-country for a million-card buy, getting onboarded as the very first postcard seller on Whatnot, and the buyer who messaged him to say "that's my grandfather on that postcard."
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Shed Flips $10 for two garbage bags + Frye boots score (full garage sale haul)
A $5-fill-a-bag sale where the bags were actual kitchen-size Glad trash bags, plus $10 Frye boots, $2.50 Pioneer Woman throw blankets, and a binder full of DVDs for $10. Friday garage sales, Shed Flips style.
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I'm Gonna Pack It How do you pack 14 eBay orders in 20 minutes?
A speed-pack Friday afternoon — Candice has a 20-minute deadline before she rolls out, and the orders aren't going to ship themselves. The clock starts at 0:00. We finish at 18:44.
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I'm Gonna Pack It We sold a $190 photo sticker printer plus 15 more eBay orders
April pack session with a high-ticket printer, 15 additional orders across platforms. Urban Decay, Pop Mart, electronic devices, and the mix that fills a Friday afternoon.
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Shed Flips The reason we still donate to Goodwill
A "sold on all four platforms" day with a $220 Etsy sale of a 1961 Collier's encyclopedia set as the headline — and a story about why a different donation place lost a truckload of vinyl over an iron bed frame.