hey guys my name is Mel and I'm a full time eBay seller today I'm going to show
you a video of my garage and how I store all my ebay stock. I wanted to do
this quick video because I've spent the last few days reorganising my storage space
My ebay stores are growing as I do so much thrifting and I'm running out of room
I now have about 2,000 items in my ebay stores as I am a full time reseller.
I'm was finding that I was tripping over tubs I didn't have room to stack them all and had no room for any more new storage tubs for my ebay stock.
so what I've done is I've moved ebay stock around in the garage and I've
changed the position of where some things were and what it's done is
actually allowed up enough space for me to add 28 more tubs so some of those
tubs were already piling around the ground they just had no home but I've
been able to buy some more tubs as well so now I've even got some empty ones
which is just amazing and exactly what I needed so I'm going to give you a little
bit of a tour and show you exactly where I keep everything and what what it all
looks like how do I store 2,000 ebay items in my garage firstly I use our two-car
garage to store everything so I don't have the whole of the garage but I'm
using about 3/4 of the space we obviously still have personal stuff
that needs to be stored in the garage so I've got it petitioned off
behind this rack of tubs is actually some shelving for our normal garage
stuff you know like the kids bikes are in there my husband's tools are in there
and camping gear and all that kind of stuff so I'm using about three-quarters
of the space of a two-car garage here also the tubs that I use because I do
get a lot of questions they're 50 litre tubs I buy them from bunnings and are
around $5 each so they're not too expensive but I do have to say that the
lids aren't very strong and often the lens do end up cracking if my items if
the boxes get a little bit heavy and that's just because I don't have shelves
they're all stacked on top of each other so there is quite a lot of weight that's
going in the bottom box so is make sure the bottom box you know has a nice
sturdy lid and swap them around if they start to break so the the broken ones
kind of got at the top if they break too much I just go and buy a new tub the
other question I get is how do you get to the bottom tub so um yes I have two
unstack all the tubs it's not really an issue it doesn't take me very long and
it's good for my muscles which I don't have but it's a good workout for me but
really if I was to put shelves in here I'd only have to pack about five tubs
high so it just wouldn't be enough space I would lose way too many boxes and this
just has to work for water for my level of stock so I don't have a choice if I
put shelves in here I would fit far less boxes so I'm until I'm at the stage
where I'm big enough to maybe get a warehouse or something I'm stuck doing
it this way but it really doesn't bother me it's really not hard it's actually
very quick I've got the space here in between so it's just pull one down down
down down and make sure when I'm picking my
orders that um I'm only going once to the tub you know I put my orders in in
order so and that's to make sure that I don't go to the bottom tab stack a pack
up and then five orders down the track I find that I've got another one down in
the bottom pile and make sure that I'm all in order before I start picking the
picking the orders and that way I'm only going to the one box the one time so
yeah it's pretty much just stacking them and stacking them all so it's extremely
windy here today and I can hear the wind rattling outside so I do apologize if
there's a little bit of background noise it is the wind okay
so I've just flicked the camera around and this door is actually the internal
access from my garage so that door goes into my house what you can see here is
my gift pile rack so basically every time I go to the up shop I come in and I
hang anything up that needs hanging or there's a couple of buckets down the
bottom for shoes or I put random stuff on top and basically everything on that
rack is what I need to photograph at least so I can stay on top of it I know
if that's getting out of control because you know there's too much on that this
is actually a lot on it at the moment simply because as I've been cleaning up
this week I had all this stuff that was just shoved in random spots and it
hadn't been listed so I've found quite a bit as I've been cleaning up the rack is
now full and it shows me that I need to you know get all of that photographed
and listed I don't mind having a little bit of a death pile but I don't like
having really any more than that because otherwise I just feel like it's wasted
money you know even on that rack there there's probably several hundred dollars
worth and you know that's that's deep money to me if it's not listed if it
can't be purchased then it's just a waste to see me that's just my view it's
not that I don't like having any deck pile
do like having a little beep so for the days when I can't get to a thrift shop
or an op shop it's it's there but I don't like having too much just down
here this is my dryer and my freezer that just has to stay there that's just
part of it I've got my filing cabinet over here and on top of the filing
cabinet is a that little box there that's where I put all my receipts so as
soon as I've come in from op shopping or purchasing any new tabs or anything for
the business I pop the receipt into that tub and then at the end of the month I
gather all those receipts up for the month and I do my monthly paperwork
Malita I'm a few months behind on that at the moment but I'm getting to that
this week this week is a catch-up week okay so coming through down here this is
my book while so what I've done in the garage is this book I'll was much wider
I kind of had it separated into half so the tabs were in half and the books were
in half but what I realized was that I really didn't need as much space in the
book all because with the tubs I have to pull them up and down and off from each
other but the books I just go straight to the shelf and grab the book so I just
moved those shelves in closer so this is narrower now and I can walk all the way
down and find all my books they're all easy to find as you can see all the
shelves are labeled that way in my SKU inside my eBay listing it tells me
exactly where the book is so if I need to buy this book
he'll the--even healthy everyday I already met it's in the SKU that it says
that book is on shelf number b5 so it's really simple so yeah this is all my
books and coming down here you'll see I've got about four tubs there of DVDs
and a box of games so that's where I keep all of those I don't have too many
DVDs it's not something that I particularly love so one stack of those
isn't is enough for me I can do a four sixty around here into my Garret into my
tubs so I've got a walkway so I can do a full circle walking around
my garage so yeah I just came back that is the books that is the death Paul
okay now excuse the light I my garish light
is broken so I have a temp rerun set up okay this is my new packing station and
I absolutely love it it's gonna work perfectly for me so I was working off a
trestle table now the problem with the trestle table is it's a little bit low
so what I was finding after a big day of packing a heap of orders I'd have a
really sore back because I've been crouched over so I just kind of figured
that wasn't working I also found that as a bit of a waste of space because I was
just shoving tubs and junk and stuff underneath it so I decided that I wanted
a work bench with actual shelves where I could store
all my packing supplies and this is just working so fantastically I'm so happy
with it I do have a little bit of extra room here and I'm tossing up to buy a
second one just to give it so I've got some extra width because I think that
would really help so here it is and I'm just gonna show you what I've got on it
so in this compartment I have my large satchels and down here I keep my DVD
packaging and some steps over here I've got the medium set Jules I buy them in
bulk sub tech in bulk lots of 10 and under here I have got the hard cardboard
trapped envelopes I can use those for DVDs for books and also sometimes for
small theme pieces of clothing now these two here have got my small satchels I've
filled up two compartments with them just because I order them in bulk and
use so many of those so those ones there are all the small satchels down here I'm
going to be keeping my snap lock bags that I used to put all my items in the
beers I've got a spare sticky tape and there's a lot of that because I order it
in bulk off eBay and down there I've got some shoe suppliers
so when I'm photographing shoes or stuff I've got my pool noodles to put inside
the shoes and cleaning supplies and there's my you know D pillar and all
that kind of stuff so and Dan here's a couple of storage boxes so up here I've
just placed I've got the top one is full of all my little thank-you cards the
middle one is full of my numbers that I take out of the bags because every time
I put an item into the bin it's got an individual number in it so I
just take those out swap it with a thank you card and then I've reused these
numbers all the time when I'm listing new items and then down here I've got my
address labels my scissors and my pens and stapler and anything like that that
I need so that's awesome and I am absolutely loving my new
packing station so then we come across here into my tubs and this is where I
store all my clothes so while doing this cleanup I have actually been able to add
some extra space here and I've been able to add another whole row of tubs so I've
now got 10 rows of tubs on this side there's 7 tubs high and that takes it to
70 tubs for that side this is my tub area so I've been able to widen this
area because I made the book area more narrow and on this side here I used to
have that death pile rack in here so I was only able to fit two rows of tubs so
I've now been able to add another 21 tubs to this side so that's amazing just
because we're that death pile rack was before we had other stuff that we were
just using for like our family and stuff so I've taken all that away to clear
that space so yeah this is just awesome now that means in total I've added
another 28 tubs to this area which is just fantastic and
it's just gonna help me out a lot because the tubs were getting heavy and
I just need if I want to keep growing I still need you have to add some extra
tops the black tabs that you can see they're full of all my shoes so they
will have it's on them for shoe and then the number so that way it goes into my
SKU and I know where it is the last two rows of black tabs have the
EMA number that stands for miscellaneous so that's why I add soft toys or
ornaments or toys or just random stuff that I buy all the stuff that I don't
like to sell that I experiment and try with so they go in there I have one
shelf here that's kind of squished in but what I use for that is stuff that I
cross list to Facebook marketplace it just keeps it a little bit separate it's
there so it is accessible if somebody wants to come and my my kids or my
husband's home I can just tell them it's on the shelf and that way I don't get
confused sometimes are also buy things specifically for Facebook marketplace so
they might not fit in the tubs so they might go on one of those racks but yeah
that's it you can see my garage door is behind there's black tubs so if you were
to look from the outside the garage door would roll up you would see the back of
my tubs and down on the other side over there you would see the portioned off
area that we use for personal stuff so yeah so you can see that I've got so
much extra width here now it's fantastic I've got more room as I'm pulling the
tubs down just got to be it's just not so tight while I'm moving around so not
only have I made room for 28 new tubs I've made room just to move around more
and I have made this awesome table which you know workbench which is just
fantastic and now has everything I need all in the one place I literally once I
pick those orders I do not have to move I can just sit here and pack a pack pack
the pack super fast so yeah so that is my room I've currently have
about 2,000 listings and this is how I store it so guys thank you I hope that's
given you a little bit of an insight onto how I store all these items at my
house where do I fit 2,000 items and yeah I think you can say that by keeping
it neat and tidy it helps you work productively you know time is money so
you don't want to be flopping around looking for things and you want
everything to be in reach of what you're doing so I think I've set this up to the
best of my ability and I'm really happy with how it is it was neat and tidy
before it obviously just was growing and I needed some extra space for some boxes
I'm really pleased that I've managed to fit in 28 more tubs that's awesome I've
got a little bit room there to grow I haven't finished growing for the year
it's gonna be a bit of a balance to work out then where everything goes I don't
know hey stay long okay keep following me and watch as I grow and follow my
journey and you know you you'll know when I know what's gonna happen but
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know your thoughts about my working space thanks