July First Reads

 This month: 

1. John Grebble is Gone (thriller - bonus short read)
2. How to Ruin a Wedding (rom com)
3. No Light but the Stars (hist fict)
4. Ransom (legal thriller)
5. When She Was Ours (book club fiction (really, what is this category)
6. Oxford Detective Society (cosy fiction - their spelling)
7. Fields of Asphodel (hist fantasy)
8.  Dead Girls Tell No Tales (psych thriller)
9. A Heartbeat at my Feet (women's fiction - how is this different from book club fiction?)
10. Where Her SEcrets Lie (thriller) 

Cutting out all the thrillers is easy.  None of the rest have been ordered by the library yet, so I can't cut them down that way.  Picked Fields of Asphodel, but might recommend Oxford Detective Society and How to Ruin a Wedding to the library. 

 

 

A Vinted update

 Well, Vinted is going pretty well.  Made $47 in June, and about that in July.  I've been selling mostly clothes, but one Nintendo 3DS game and a Kpop album (which I underpriced), and a pair of figurines.  Unlisted a few things that hadn't sold in 6 weeks, and need to round up more stuff to list.  And have a dedicated spot for the listed stuff, so I don't have to go hunting for it. 

The Vinted experiment

 The Offspring discovered buying on Vinted while she was in the UK, and since then, I decided to try selling things on the site.  Mostly clothing, being easy to ship, but other stuff as well.  Bought a pack of plastic envelopes to mail things in, since those are waterproof-ish and flexible, and only 10 cents each.  

So far, it's been a fair success.  We won't get rich, but we've sold some clothes, a Nintendo game, a K-pop album, and a DVD.  Listing is simple enough, and the site doesn't take a cut off the seller's end, so it's been worth trying.  I've sold 10 things so far, I think.  Time to look at what I've had listed for a few weeks, and either drop the price or just donate it somewhere.  

 I've also done a little buying myself, partly to get a feedback rating.  But, also, found a great beach wrap and a sari that will be great tablecovers or whatever, and some foreign coins.