What's the story on those pennies exactly? I can't imagine someone would take the time to put them in holders if they're worthless common pennies. Are they at least wheat cents?

Haven't really looked at them yet, but will take the whole batch to my coin collecting friend (he's 65 and has collected since he was a teen). If anyone will know about them, he will.

Meanwhile, 4 coins made it into the house with me. Let me know what you think of these:

1) Penny...1943 S (wheat) (no quality ranking on white sleeve)
2) Nickel...1964 (Jefferson, marked VF on white sleeve)
3) Nickel...1958 (Jefferson, marked EF on white sleeve)
4) Nickel...1964 (Jefferson, marked F/EF on white sleeve)

If those ring any bells with you, please let me know. Coin and stamp collecting were never my thing, but I know both can be rewarding in more ways than one. Now where did I put that stamp that had the plane flying upside down?  

P.S. There is a box with hundreds of empty coin sleeves. What can I get for batches of say 25  or 50 or 100 ?

Word. Well i mean how much more do tenants pay

BigBizz.....

Can you explain to me your use of the word "word" at the beginning of some of your posts ?

I've never seen this before and don't understand its use. Is it a regional expression? Is it something used by a generation younger than myself?

Thanks for enlightening me. 

Money4nothing.... for you (and anyone else). (delete cells E169 and E170...they aren't needed)

Just get the Quicken program, it's super for tracking just what you're describing with a lot less work.

Well, since I've been using this spreadsheet for EIGHT YEARS there's no reason for me to re-invent the wheel, but maybe others would want to get quicken.

I suspect though there are some aspects of my Excel solution that may not be represented in Quicken.

If you HAVE Excel (or other spreadsheet) and you know how to use it, that works for me, but Quicken is relatively cheap and would certainly work as well. Since I used Lotus 123 before Excel came along, it was no problem for me to figure things out...history and experience are a wonderful thing.

Well I think I fall in the 1/2 type A . I will start working on that spread sheet now. What kinda of formula are you using? time spent at auction/loading + gas + cost at flea market + misc. advertisement cost (ebay). Oh crap I think I just moved up to Full Type A. : ).

Start with a blank spreadsheet.
In cell A1....name of facility bought, date and cost.

Start columns for item name, desired sell price, sell price.  Have total at bottom of those columns.
Develop forumulas (do research on those....return on invesment, etc). I didn't know these myself until I researched them.

Then, the next time you make a lkr buy, go to the next sheet to the right and do a sheet for it. (you could copy the first one to the 2nd and then edit the 2nd for appropriate content).

Make a separate sheet (in the same book) that will have two basic areas...expenses (lkr buys, etc) and income.
In the income sheet make a column that has monthly totals that draw from the cells showing your flea market and other incomes (indiviual clist sales, etc.)

After you have two or three sheets, make a sheet (in that same book) for the yearly totals.
Develop columns and lines for each year (this year, next year, etc).
Develop rows for each month.

I know this sounds complicated, but if you know Excel and know what you want to achieve, you will figure it out.
Nothing worth doing is going to be super easy, and I never just "hand" answers to anyone who asks (thanks for not asking me to send you a template). I have always believed that "doing it yourself" is a better experience than having something delivered on a silver platter.

Hope this at least gets you interested enough to give it a shot.

I have tried to inventory while going throughout the locker... But man that's hard to do. Well my husband gets so excited and just want to look through everything real quick... Then get it on the truck and get it home. By the time we have the time to dedicate to the lkr it's night time and I'm tired .... So instead of inventorying before. I do it at the time of sale. But Doin it this way, I have a hard time keeping track of the profit/loss per lkr. So instead I just tally up the cost of each lkr by month plus dump, gas, helpers,... And such then subtract that from what I have made for the month... There is my profit for that month. Any suggestions?

Well, I have to say that keeping a spreadsheet for each locker buy is important to me and lets me know exactly where I am in the overall picture as well.

When I buy a lkr I start a spreadsheet for it and list the major items in the lkr. I have columns for item name, asking price and sold price. These total at the bottom along with a "cost" cell and when putting in appropriate forumuli it's easy to see when the lkr is paid off and what percent of return has been achieved.

Each sheet in the overall spreadsheet ties to an annual sheet and I can see how each month has done, yearly total and totals for each of the last 8 years. That way I can see the trend in overcall expenses and income as well. As an example, 2006 was my best year and I can see that this year is down from last year (to date).

Once you get it figured out, it's pretty automatic.

When selling at my weekly flea market I make pencil/paper notations on big items sold and when I get home I put those in to the appropriate sheet and the totals and percentages all work automatically.

Maybe this is to "type A" for many people, but it works for me !

I am in the same boat as this person. My entire life was auctioned off illegally.Yes illigeally. I was given no notice or even a change to stop it. I would love someone to help me find the person who purchased my locker in Valencia CA, on October 13. I don't care as much about the material items I just want my memories. My kids pics, my wedding pics. Please can anybody help me. I am devestated. You can laugh but I am serious. Will anyone please help me.  It was @ Valencia Self storage.

Stacy

If in fact your belongings were auctioned off illegally (with no notice or a chance to pay your back bills) then you would most likely have legal grounds to pursue information from the storage facility to get the buyers name and phone number.

If on the other hand you did not receive the legal notifications from the storage facility because you changed your address or changed your phone number and did not notify them, THEN that would be on you.

I don't know you or anything about you other than what you are expressing here, but I can't tell you how many times over the last 8 years I have heard former contents owners indicate "they didn't notify me". Property managers get the registered letters back from the post office if they are undeliverable. They keep them on file for instances just like you are describing.

You don't indicate if you have tried to talk to the storage facility about any aspect of this situation. If you did and they couldn't provide you with any proof they had tried to contact you as they should have, THEN AGAIN you have grounds to pursue this legally.

While I realize that most people are not used to (or financially able) to pursue truly legal means, working within the system is the BEST way to pursue such matters no matter what.


If you have ANY KIND of WORKING RELATIONSHIP with the property manager (not having alienated them) at the VERY LEAST I believe THEY would contact the buyer and give the buyer YOUR phone number so he could contact you. On the other hand, if you have a bad rapport with the property manager, you can kiss any such opportunity goodbye.

Let us know all the details (as I have outlined most possibilities above). Maybe there's something we don't know about your situation that would allow us to provide further suggestions.

And how exactly are they going to know you're holding a yard sale? Do they have some overpaid flunky going through all the newspapers looking under "garage/yard sales" and making a check mark next to your name on a piece of paper? Doubt it. Talk about overreaching of the government.

If it's like most municipalities they are doing it to protect the neighborhood environment more than anything else.

In my area one is limited to TWO yard or garage sales a year.

NO, the government doesn't monitor it OTHER THAN to listen to complaints of neighbors who would get tired of the traffic, the crossing of lawns, the blocking of driveways, etc by shoppers.  If someone is doing it a few weekends a month, month in and month out, it WOULD be a problem in my book.