Life with 'song and Adam

Me to my husband at breakfast: "Some guys marry pretty girls. Some marry girls who will be good homemakers. You married a girl who does impressions of Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints."

BPAL-o-Rama

In preparation for meeting cid62 at JavaMonkey at 3:00 for a meet-and-sniff that any interested locals are totally invited to...

Inventory!

My stuff falls into the following categories:

* Stuff that's 100% up for swap.
* Stuff that's been claimed for swap, but you can smell it if you want.
* Stuff I'm still testing and have yet to review.
* Stuff that's mine mine mine, but you can smell it if you want.

As I'm packing it up, I am making a list.

( Come and see, if interested! )

I will swap things I like that I have multiples of if you have something I really like (swapped one imp of Tell-Tale Heart for one of Beaver Moon yesterday; I have a half-bottle plus two imps, so that I can spare). As far as I know, Cid's the only person coming today, so I'm only bringing one of each. If you might want to swap for one and might show up, let me know and I'll pack an extra.

Meet-and-swap In very brief

Acquired Elegba (coconut, tobacco and sweet, sugared rum - my first reaction was "sugarcane!"), Yemaya (melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses - I get ocean, without chemical "aquatic notes"), Apothecary (tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig), Coyote (The warmth of doeskin, dry plains grasses and soft, dusty woods warmed by amber and a downy, gentle coat of deep musk), and another Lear. Fell in love with Alone - another LE (patchouli and cardamom with bright mandarin, labdanum, muguet, red sandalwood, angelica and gardenia - dude, I don't get any of that, I get forest)!

Had much fun with Cid and her man. *hugs* Must do this again soon!

Came home to the Torture King I swapped gegenschein for... and over half a bottle of Beaver Moon from solcita! *squees*

And got frimps from the person who sent the Torture King; alas, they're all scents I already know don't work on me. But hey, free, and now they're trade-bait! *adds Al-Shairan, Morocco, and Viscount de Valmont to swaplist*

( Very brief reviews of other stuff I tried from the collections of others (and do not myself own) )

Selling smelly stuff

Those of you who do not give a shit, I ask your forbearance.

It wasn't til cid62 asked to buy my Lush stuff that I realized that there was a secondary market in Stuff What Is Not BPAL, too. As I walked away from our mini-meet-and-swap with $18 to put towards more BPAL, I realized that people might want to buy other smelly stuff, too.

I have accumulated a bunch of smelly stuff over the years. People give it to me because I have two X chromosomes, and therefore I should want to smell like flowers. I do not want to smell like flowers. But some of you do.

So.

How do I price this stuff? Example: I have this. It's $45 new. How much ought I to ask for it?

I have so much crap. Help me get rid of my crap. (And get more crap, but in dainty little bottles.)

Step three: Profit!