It’s a Date!!

Drumroll, please… The moment you’ve all been waiting for has come – it is time to announce the Date of our first trade.
And the Date is…
FRIDAY 20 JUNE, 2008!!!
And why that date? I hear you ask…
Well, simply because it is the Swedish Midsummer Night’s Eve and it is one of my favourite days of the [...]

One Red Paperclip on eBay!!!

Well, what can I say? Sometimes I’m so quick off the mark I surprise myself! I told the kids about trying to have special auctions to raise money for the Paperclip Project, and right away my son Filip donated this shirt:

So, with our first donated item just waiting to get out there, I had to [...]

One Red UK Paperclip on eBay?

eBay is the perfect place to attract attention as there are about 400 million users world wide. I will soon announce the date for our first trade – the date my beloved Red Paperclip will move to its new home. But if you’ve read Da Rooles you know I cannot do anything – or go [...]

Evalena’s Scandiribbean Kitchen

A while back I told you we had begun to sell Caribbean food items in our eBay shop, Ya Man! Markets. Within the first couple of days I got a few emails from people who were curious and wanted to try the products, but they didn’t know how to. I thought about it for a [...]

Bank Holiday? No Way!!

After a weekend of vegging out in a next to catatonic stage, I woke up this morning thinking that this would be a good day. I took all the eBay parcels that was due to despatch and headed for the Post Office. Closed. Closed! Closed??? What do you mean, Bank Holiday?
It’s the first day of [...]

Jeez I’m Knackered!

This will be a very short entry, because I’m too tired to think and my fingers cannot seem to find their way around the keyboard.
I have just worked my first full week since I left my old job and it was a little like a shock to the system! Using your brain in new ways [...]

Attack Sales?

Someone emailed us to enquire about our name on eBay. The shop is called Ya Man! Markets, but our seller profile name is atacsales. Wot? Attack Sales? Sounds very aggressive dunnit??
To be honest I never thought about that. I just tred to think of a name we could remember that somehow alluded to our main [...]

Happee Birthday, Ems!!

Today I’m just writing a quick note to say Happee 22nd Birthday to my little girl far away from home. I hope you will have a wonderful birthday, baby, and I so wish we could be there for your birthday dinner tomorrow. John says we’ll be there in spirit and we’ll be there through representation. [...]

Caribbean Food

When I was browsing through eBay to check what people sell on there, I came across one of my newfound kitchen favourites – Levi Root’s Reggae Reggae Sauce. If the name for some reason doesn’t ring a bell, I can tell you that Levi Roots is the dread who beat the odds and waltzed – [...]

Ya Man! We Got It!

In or ongoing efforts to build an Academy on empty pockets (well, obviously, we’re not making efforts to be on empty pockets!) we are selling off all the things we can live without on eBay. So far we’ve gone through my closet and we’ve only just started to empty out John’s garage. If you think [...]