Candice surprised me Tuesday morning with a brand-new tape gun resizer — a gift she’d been planning all week because the old one had been failing on me. I’ve been struggling with it. She decided I wasn’t going to complain about it anymore. First test run at 22:51 on a Taylor Swift Speak Now CD set, and it worked like a dream. Especially with the guard around the front that my old one didn’t have.

This Tuesday was a 15-order pack day. The real story, though, is the Enjoi Resin-7 skateboard deck that needed a Frankenbox build from scratch.

The Goldilocks Boxing moment

[36:29] The Enjoi Resin-7 skateboard for $44.99. It’s a long item, skinny but specific in width. No standard box was going to work. So I did what I always do when the item doesn’t fit the box — I built two cardboard halves, measured them out, cut them, scored them, and planned to slide them together. The problem: everything was too tall, too short, too thin, too wide. Nothing fit just right.

I was testing the first half against the second, running through combinations, and Candice was watching. At 42:30, I called it a Goldilocks box — building two halves and sliding them together until the fit is just right. She laughed and said “that’s it. We’re making goldie boxes.”

By the time it was sealed, the thing looked like a boomerang — pinched in the middle, wide at the ends. Candice told me I was like “the critics on the Muppets right now,” the two old guys in the balcony complaining about everything. She’s right. But we got it done. Packed, labeled, heading out.

The other packs that stacked up

[1:19] 100-book Sci-Fi lot for Zach — private sale, $130, two packages. Hardcovers and paperbacks, split across two Ground Advantage media-rate boxes. Zach’s a repeat private-sale buyer who knows what he wants — Candice had this one half-prepped before we even started recording.

[32:22] Cocodrie Louisiana alligator beer tap handle — $24.99. Local craft-beer tap handles keep moving for us. We picked up 31 of them at a garage sale for $150 and three have already sold for $75 total. The local ones — like this one and the 40 Arpent Brewing Milk Stout sugarcane handle later in the day — tend to move first.

[25:54] Vintage 14-pound Brunswick T-Zone bowling ball — $25.19. A random video showed up in my feed last night about illegal bowling balls — apparently some of them got banned for being too soft. Softer balls hit the pins differently and sweep more pins than they should, which makes them too good. We picked up three balls and two bags for $20 at one garage sale. This is the first one to move. Hot Lunch Reseller’s been right about this category for a while.

[49:09] 12-pound yarn lot, 58 skeins, mixed crochet and knitting — $99.99. The yarn keeps clearing the shelf. We’ve covered the $5-fill-a-trash-bag yarn pickup before — that one’s now at $275 listed and $175 sold so far on a $10 spend. This 12-pounder was a separate pickup but it’s part of the same trend. Yarn buyers come back.

The rest of the day filled in around those: the Bell’s Inspired Brewing tin tacker bar sign at $59.99, the Houston Texans signed (facsimile) football, the Nautica Chatham Madras quilt at $99.99, the Urban Decay 24/7 Empire eyeliner, a vintage QSL ham radio postcards lot, a 4-pack of Epcot 2018 Food and Wine festival appetizer plates, an SF Giants Digital Camo New Era 59Fifty hat, and a large Lucchese fabric shopping tote — all packed during the cuts. Pack-day rhythm.

What we sourced this week

We went to one garage sale Friday morning despite the rain. Walked out with two IKEA bags of cosmetics for $263 — somewhere around 100 items, threshold $10-plus-shipping each, average closer to $15. We finished listing 95 of them in two days for $1,543 listed (more on that on the Shed Flips side).

The 31 beer tap handles were $150. Three sold for $75 already, 28 still on the shelf.

We truly are everything sellers. On any given pack day, you’ve got cosmetics, bowling balls, skateboard decks, a quilt, a tin sign, eyeliner, tap handles from Louisiana breweries, a yarn lot, ham radio postcards, and a baseball hat. No two pack days look the same. The chaos is the job.

Thanks for packing along with us. We’ll see y’all again very soon.