MeBay

I signed up for an eBay account 9 years ago, and with it, I bought 10 things. I had a whopping feedback rating of. . . 10! All positive, yay me.

Then, I took a hiatus for 8 years, which brings us to today. I miraculously remembered my password, but since it had been so long since I'd used the account, eBay wanted to verify my info. I can appreciate that. Only, absolutely everything has changed - my name, address, email, phone, everything. I talked with a customer service person, who tried valiantly, but basically my only option was to mail in a bunch of forms of ID to reinstate the account. For my whopping 10 feedback, I decided to let the old me go. Goodbye, old me.

I opened a new account, and bought a birthday gift for Lauren that has been very difficult to find otherwise. I now have a feedback rating of 1! Woo!

I bought Lauren a vTech alphabet train station for Christmas. She adores it and plays with it every day. It came with 18 little animals, and she knows every one of them. (I set up the animals in a semi-circle and ask her, "can you find the cheetah?" and she looks around, and then gets up and grabs the cheetah and hands him to me. "Can you find the pelican?" Etc. The game lasts a while and she's very good at it. Her favorites are the polar bear and the elephant.) There are 5 other related sets (a treehouse, a firehouse, an ice cream shop, a band stand and a post office) all of which come with a few animals and other accessories.

Since she loves the train station so much, I told my family that for her birthday, I'd like to get her the other five sets. I logged into Amazon to get links for each one, and saw that the tree house was going for $229!! Insanity. I paid $20 for the train station. So, I decided to hunt around and that's where eBay came back into my life. I found the treehouse for $15.99 which seems perfectly reasonable. So, I bought it.

Now I'm watching four other auctions and I fear an obsession creeping into my life.