I have been meaning to update y'all on how my greeting card sales have been going. I mentioned that I hit a greeting card jackpot a month or so ago… The cards from that group were all in excellent condition–most of them were still inside their envelopes. So I think that might be why I ended up profiting so heavily!

The oldest cards I found were from the ‘30s and '40s and were super cool. They sold for $76. Another similar lot sold for $63 from another sale that I found right around the same time. This is a picture of my favorites from one of those groups… I can’t remember which one:

I figured out via extensive eBay research that used cards sell best when divided into lots of things that are similar. In the 1950s and '60s, it was super common to have cartoon animals on cards–even for adults. For example, a husband and wife would be represented as a cartoon bear husband and wife. So I separated the cards into groups of animals. This lot was just a mixed lot of different animals and sold for $36:

The most desirable lot of cards, for whatever reason, was this lot of bird and bunny cards:

There’s no denying that these are adorable… but they sold for $113!

I sold a lot of cards like the ones above that were all puppies and kittens for $41, and also decided to separate out the children’s Christmas cards from the lot, and those also sold for $41. I did the same with the valentines:

They sold for $26… And then I sold cards with just girls and boys on them… which sold for $27.

So if you’ve been doing the math on that, that’s a whopping $424! I spent about $160 at the sale where I found these cards (on everything I bought–not just the cards), so that’s definitely  a profit!

I still have a ton of other cards from this sale that I’m going to maybe sell individually because they’re mechanical. I’ll be sure to feature some of the coolest ones on here as I go through them.

-Sarah