Unpacking To Pack

Compared to last weekend, this week has been blessedly quiet.  Last Thursday marked the last day of school for my son Aidan.  He had a blast on Friday and today he was “so bored.”  I caught him counting days on the calendar until school is back in session.  I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not =p  I got very little done with my most recent acquisition of Breyers.  It’s a constant battle around here to find room for anything much less hundreds of plastic horses.  Listing horses for sale starts with unpacking them from whatever they were packed in originally.  As any collector will attest to, Breyers make impressive dust magnets.  Most of the horses get washed in the kitchen sink.  This involves first washing the endless mound of dirty dishes.  If you want to actually use to kitchen for oh say, cooking, good luck using the sink!  After the horses dry I take pictures of them and write up a description for the sales listing.  As I have an increasing number of duplicate models, I have started to tag them #1, 2, 3.  Then they get repacked into one of my sales bin and hopefully I remember to write the horse’s name on the inventory list for the bin.  It’s a huge hassle to dig through all of the sales bins for that one horse that I forgot to label.  Which has happened more than once so I suppose it’s not just that one horse…  When a horse sells I unpack it from the sales bin, put it in more bubblewrap and pack it in a shipping box.  This is highly inefficient and takes a tremendous amount of time.  By the end of the day I never want to pack another horse.  I’m not sure whether to be pleased or disgruntled when I wake up in the morning and see another order awaiting shipment.

On a slightly more interesting note, this is what our porch looked like after we unloaded the UHaul.

You can’t see them in the picture but there is a nice assortment of boxed Breyer Wildlife.

You can click on the pictures to see the sales listings.  I still have more to list including a Breyer Ram, Goat, Cows and an assortment of bulls.  There are probably 100 NIB Breyer horses.  The vast majority of those were put into bigger boxes and immediately stored in the garage.  I truly have no space for those!  I brought in my first bin of horses from the garage today and you should see some if their listings pop up on Ebay tomorrow 🙂  Most of the horses are Fighting Stallions and Silvers.  Oh how I would love to keep those Silvers!  For now, they’re drying by my kitchen sink =D