Signs That You Have Had To Much Ebaying

[LORD KUNGFU]

SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE HAD TOO MUCH EBAYING....

-You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.

-Your daughter sells Girl Scout cookies vie HER web site

-The concept of using real money instead of paypal, billpoint, money order to make a purchase is foreign to you.

-Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet .

-Your idea of being organized is multi colored Post-it notes

-You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.

-You turn off your modem and get the awful feeling as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

-You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

-You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom and check your auctions on the way back to bed.

-You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

-Your reading this.

-Even worse your gonna add to it.

-You bought (from ebay) a mini fridge for under the computer so you can keep an eye on the boards and auctions a little longer.

-You bid on and won that neat antique chamber pot for the same reason

-You speak ebay in your everyday language (as in, "Stop flaming your brother," and "can I snipe the last piece of pie?" or "We got a new microwave because the old one had a functionality problem")

-You no longer waste time exersizing when you could be listing.

- You made a mint selling those small clothes and got larger ones (so cheap!!) from ebay.

-Your computer chair is a lazyboy.

-The last auction you ever hold is for your computer because you have already sold everything else you own.

-Your mouse-wrist has a callus the size of a dime.

-You hesitate to throw out that lint in the trap because SOMEbody might want it ...

-Like a one-year-old, you are more interested in the boxes than your presents at Christmas.

-You actually got one of those eBay pagers.

-You have friends check your auctions when you can't.

-You can tell eBay time by the sun.

-You have nightmares about being outbid.

-You seek thearapy for your eBay problem.

-You buy a network of computers for your house so you can check your auctions when your walking down the hall.

-You buy your dinner off eBay.

-When your husband doesn't come home until the Post Office is closed.

-When the mailman and ups and fed-ex all show up at the same time.

-When you tell your husband the incoming boxes are really out going.

-When you find yourself in line at the Post Office for an hour two weeks before Christmas with 10 boxes and none of them are presents for anybodyyou know!

-You are up for three hours before you even go downstairs.

-When you turn on the computer before you go to the bathroom in the morning, so it can boot up by the time you're done.

-You’re upgrading.......................your house is full of new stuff you bought with the money from your old stuff

-Getting ready to build on now.. Searching for boards, nails & shingles on ebay

-When you receive a birthday gift from your hubby...and the first thing that comes to mind is, wonder how much I could get for it on e-Bay? 2nd thought, did he buy it on e-bay?

-When your 7 year old daughter has her birthday party, and receives an old barbie, (10years still in box) and she throws it to you and says "Here mom, why don't you sell it?"....in front of your entire family.

-When you go to the grocery store to get empty boxes, not food.

-When you book your vacation spot according to whether your ISP has local access available there.... and keep a short list of a lternative free ISP's in said area...

-When the only place in the house without 3" of dust is the computer and surrounding area that gets cleaned with your elbows.!

-When you find yourself buying things on ebay with the sole purpose of reselling.

-When people only give you gift certificates as gifts, because you will sell anything else.

-When you find yourself frantically tearing down boxes before anyone comes over, so they won't know you bought more stuff.

-When you have a fetish for Laura Ashley linens and you no longer have room for all of them in the linen closet.

-You start to panic when you PayPal account gets below $100.00

-When you give the pizza delivery guy a key to your house so he can let himself so you don't have to get up from the computer.

-When USPS pulls up in a 18 wheeler to deliver all the priority boxes you ordered.

-You firmly believe that the adrenaline rush you get from a bidding is good "Aerobic Exercise" (and the only kind you are likely to get)

-You are standing in a doorway, during an earthquake, watching your pictures fall of the walls, and your first thought is "Oh, god, I hope none of the stuff I've listed or sold gets broken"

-You start to scour your house for something to sell

-You find yourself taking "good boxes" from the nieghbors trash

-You have more ebay seller lists bookmarked than anything else

-The folks at the bank ask if you eBay besause you come in every week with 100 money orders that are never more than $10 each

-You sign birthday cards with your ebay user ID

-You see everything in the stores as potential eBay sales

-You move your pet's bed closer to the computer, so you can claim you spend time with them

-You leave notes around the house reminding you to check auction # xxxxx at 10:32 PM (and 9 seconds)

-Dinner time is moved because it is an optimum time to post listings

-You don't have a room, so you build on Cost 10,000.00 had to take out a second mortgage...just for ebay

-When you think you've achieved Day-Light Savings Time, but in actuality you are running on a 36 hour day, and it is still Standard Time.

-You can't get to sleep because you can't quit thinking up snappy auction titles.

-You can copy and paste your ,"Hi, I'm your winning bidder," letter- and you do- because you use it so much.

-Your domicile is totally cluttered with used boxes, because if you tossed one it might be the one that would fit the widget you haven't bought, listed, or sold yet. But you're gonna!

-You hear moans and grumbling from the folks in line at the Post Office because they see that you are ahead of them.

-The local grocery store asks you if you have any spare boxes that they might use.

-Your spouse threatens you with negative feedback.

-Your idea of quality time is the 1.6 seconds between your bid and the end of the auction.

-When you pet the cat, your finger keeps searching for the scroll wheel.

-You become noticeably more anxious and depressed as the Friday morning maintenance period approaches.

-You have two "ebay rooms" in your house and are looking to move someone out to get the third room.

-Instead of throwing the stuff out that your x-wife leaves behind, You go through it, put it on Ebay and it sells.

-You've turned your ebay account into your daughters college fund.

-You are considering Ebaying the cats because they will not stay off the keyboard.

-You use your paper shredder to releive stress.

-When the chair in front of the computer has conformed to your butt cheeks.

-When your one year old calls you ebay instead of mom.

-When you bring a note pad every where you go so you can compare prices on ebay.

-Instead of reading a bedtime story to your child, you read him auction descriptions.

-You schedule dates around the auctions you're bidding on.

-Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags off and around your computer.

-Your one year olds’ favorite passtime is crumpling and stuffing newpapers into boxes.

-You try to auction off your in-laws. And you buy someone elses in return.

-You have an official "eBay room" in your house.

-You can type your user name and password at 300WPM.

-When you start keeping a list of the covers on all your old magazines in case one of them becomes a collectible.

-When you start calling the rolling cart you take to the post office "Little Buddy".

-When start thinking of a review at work as feedback.

-When you have to set up a second guest room because you can't find the bed in your old one -- it might be under those newspapers and tissue paper.

-When you realize your friends are afraid to loan you anything for fear of having to bid to get it back.

-When you have an anxiety attach if anyone touches your scanner.

-When the post office clerks start asking you what their 1957 Barbie might be worth.

-Your a complete dunce at math but you can calculate the final auction value in your head.

-Your dog has learned to nudge your hand off the mouse when she needs to go out.

-You find small boxes very attractive.

-Your whole family is collecting bubble wrap and peanuts for you.

-When the little girl that lives down the street knocks on your door and hands you ONE packing peanut that she found.

-You get tape, a new tape gun and labels for Christmas (and really like them).

-Co-workers you don't know start the conversation with "I heard you do ebay........I have a question for you".

-Your husband checks your auctions in the morning and instead of a kiss good-bye whispers in your ear - your auctions got some bids.

-While on vacation you ask the motel owner if you can log on to ebay!

-When you go to freinds or family homes and immediatly start scanning the contents to see if you can spot anything that would do well on Ebay.

-When the postal clerk sees you getting out of your car and is standing there with a handful of money orders, waiting for you to come into the building! When all you wanted, this time, was a postage stamp

-When UPS starts trying to sell you a Daily Pick-Up plan, and The Postal Service wishes they could charge you a Daily Delivery Plan.

-When you get "eBay elbows". The black dye from the leather arms of your chair have rubbed in so deep into your elbows, you now have to wear long sleeve shirts to hide this dirty little secret. You scrub and scrub, and can't get the darn stains out!!!

-You look to eBay to find something to remove stains, Then decide not to as no one see’s you anymore to notice the stains.

[kanata67]

I'll have you know it took over 5 years to find that particular pattern antique chamber pot!!!!!

I'm serious . My mother had all but one piece of a brithish swallow set [the bird you dirty minded people]... and now I have the whole set stored in my garage because she doesn't have room for it

I qualify for way to many of the list

[Fortress_Maximus]

I think the easiest way to know if you've gotten over your head and clearly spent beyond your means on ebay (and arguably for any other purchases), is when you promptly resell a good amount of the items you've purchased. Recently some users have been doing exactly that, one particular name comes to mind.