Wednesday, Shopping

Mom got up early today -- 8:00. Amazingly, by the time she had showered and gotten ready for the day, it was still 10:30.

But then we got out and did some shopping. Not going to say for whom.

Then we took some meat that Mom had bought (should have been used a couple days ago, but ...), and veggies and put it in the oven to roast. We used some left-over rice from the Chinese food a couple of days ago to make some rice pudding. All that is in the oven now.

This morning, while Mom was getting ready, I looked around and found another box for the plates in the garage. It was a long box -- 30 x 16 x 12 -- that was meant to hold recyclables, but was still wrapped up in cellophane, never used, and very dirty on the outside. So I cleaned it off, opened it up, folded it into a box, and it was perfect. It held all the remaining plates. So I glued it shut, put an address label on it and mailed it off. Postage cost $36.22 for a 28 lb, 10.2 oz box, plus $150 of insurance. This was a set of 22 plates:

A007	$1	COUGAR
A069	$1	AWAITING THE FIREBIRD
A071	$1	THE GOLDEN BRIDLE
A072	$2	THE GOLDEN CAGE
A090	$1	THE FOURTH OF JULY
A092	$1	SOPHIE
A093	$2	ALBERTINE
A094	$2	FRANCOISE
A126	$2	SCARLET
A127	$2	EDITH
A130	$1	MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
A131	$1	COLLETTE
A132	$2	MARLENE
A138	$2	SARAH
A151	$2	HELENE
A153	$4	NIGHT OPERATOR
A157	$1	IVANS CONQUEST
A162	$1	MALLARD
A176	$1	JOURNEY OF TSAREVICH EVAN/ELENA
A178	$1	IN SEARCH OF THE FIREBIRD
A179	$3	IVAN AND THE GREY WOLF
A187	$2	THE MAGNIFICENT FIREBIRD

which should total $36.00. Assuming it gets there okay, that would mean we paid 22 cents to sell these plates. All told, we should receive $185 for 48 plates which cost $93.58 to ship. This is just under $2 a plate for shipping, and suggests that we should not have bothered with the plates that we only got $1 for.

We should actually do better if the boxes are lost or damaged and we collect on the insurance.

But that is 48 plates gone, out of about 200.