One good thing about the COVID pandemic years - I finally had time to start going through the boxes and boxes of stuff in my basement. There were no more excuses for me to delay. I had accumulated loads of items over the last 25 years from estate sales, moving sales, garage sales, antique and consignment shops. My Mom was a collector of vintage jewelry and we used to have so much fun looking for it. She encouraged me to start selling on eBay so I started selling some of her jewelry and I got hooked. This was my method for sorting thru the jewelry items. I would take a box of jewelry and empty it out on the table on a piece of foamboard so I could easily move items around. Then I'd sort by type - necklaces,earrings, rings, brooches, bracelets, etc. Next step - start looking for signed pieces and group them together. Signed pieces sell the quickest for me on Ebay but unsigned beauties will also sell. Oftentimes at an estate sale, you have to act quickly. Occasionally I w...