April Fool’s Day. New momentum board on the wall, fresh bifocals on my face — bear with me, those are still settling in. We’re pulling orders, listing books, and at the end of the day Candice tells me something she’d been holding back the whole time. We’ll get there.

Order pulling — eBay and Poshmark

[0:27] Parker Seals O-ring kit — $60. $10 estate-sale buy. Could’ve been more — we were missing a chunk of the larger O-rings — but Candice would have never guessed it was worth that.

[3:53] IT Cosmetics foundation — $34.99. The whole bit before this was me telling Candice we were “going to be pulling it” in a little while. Her horror brain went straight to the movie. She didn’t catch the cosmetics joke until I literally pulled the box.

[8:40] Bookshelf for Boys & Girls — 10-volume hardcover lot, $69.99. $10 sourcing. The kind of book buy that makes the next book buy worth attempting.

[11:46] Metacube AR red-light therapy device — $119.99. Sold in about eight hours from listing. Came from Sheree, the TikTok shop influencer we met at a sale the weekend before — paid $60 for the device and $40 for a sticker printer next to it. The kind of quick-flip math that wakes you up.

[13:44] Three Brighton initial charms — $27 bundle on Poshmark. Parted out an old bracelet figuring buyers want their initial. This one bought E, R, and G. Reg. I’m reading too much into it.

The postcard discovery

[21:20] Candice listed the big vintage postcard lot we picked up last week — $8 paid, listed at $54.99 — and after I shipped it she finally went through the rest of the cards from that bag. Turns out half of them are New Orleans cards: Jackson Brewery, Jackson Square, the riverboats, St. Louis Cathedral. And there are duplicates — piles of duplicates, sometimes a dozen of the same card.

That changes the play. Originally I was going to auction the whole second lot off as one mystery bag. Now we’re thinking four separate listings: New Orleans bundle, riverboats bundle, Jacks Brewery bundle, and a mish-mash. Some of the linen-textured ones from the one-cent stamp era are actually old. We’ll see what they bring.

The List Easier video Rev made

[29:10] While I was eating lunch I watched Rev Resale’s latest video — a full walkthrough of List Easier. Candice and I have been hesitant about AI listing tools (we’re not the most early-adopter couple), but two things got me. First, the workflow looked clean. Second, Rev didn’t drop his affiliate code anywhere in the video. He’s been recommending it to me for weeks in chat — when somebody who’d benefit from a referral doesn’t take the referral, that means a lot. We’re going to try it. Not a testimonial yet — we haven’t actually used it. We’ll report back.

The bigger reason it appeals: if it cuts the computer side of listing in half, Candice and I can split the workload — one of us doing photos / dimensions / weights / shelf assignments, the other on the keyboard. Working together on packing has already been the change of the year for us. This could be the same thing for listing.

What Candice didn’t tell me

[38:55] Candice was driving my mom to the doctor in Baton Rouge. The traffic was bad, the rain was bad, the girl behind her was seriously tailgating, and the moment traffic stopped — bam — Candice got rear-ended into the car in front of her. Three hours sitting on the shoulder waiting for the police. State trooper showed up, said it was the city’s jurisdiction, took the info and left. The girl who hit them was already trying to spin a story to make it her fault. Nobody got a ticket.

I didn’t know any of this until they walked in the door.

Candice’s call: there was nothing for me to do, the rain was bad, and she didn’t want me hauling up there in it. “I figured you’d come up there if I told you.” She wasn’t wrong. There’s a story in our family — my cousin got the news his great-grandmother died, hauled it to the hospital in the rain, and got in a wreck himself. Candice not calling me probably kept that pattern from repeating.

Everybody’s okay. The truck’s drivable. That’s it for this one.