Danger on the Web

eBay is a dangerous, dangerous place.

It is so easy to get caught up in the passion of the moment and bid way too high on something you don't really need. That's how my husband ended up getting an ice skate sharpener for Christmas last year. Some guy managed to outbid me by a penny and then there was no way I was going to let him win.

But eBay can be a great resource too. Which makes it hard to just quit cold turkey.

Online auctions are a great place for a mom who couldn't sew a seam to save her life to find perfect costumes for plays, programs and Halloween. Luckily there are these saintly folks out there sewing up a storm of angel costumes and pioneer costumes and they can be mine for the right price.

I just got the cutest pioneer dress in the mail for my daughter's field trip on Friday. Yay eBay.

But no matter how hard I tried to buy that one thing and then pull out, eBay just had to pull me back in. And now we are the proud owners of a pitching machine, a new camera, two broken cameras "for parts", and one used softball bat.

So my thirty dollar pioneer dress find ended up costing me about a grand in impulse buys.

This weekend I think I might go on a scavenger hunt. I'm going to call it the, "Find One Thousand Bucks Worth of Stuff I Can Sell On eBay So My Husband Doesn't Kick My Butt Hunt".

It has a certain ring, doesn't it?