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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 482077, member: 85&quot;]Mine is still longhand, as I started in 1978, before computers.</p><p>At one time in the 80s, I tried to put it into a data base.&nbsp; I got tired of doing it, and am glad I didn&#039;t as all the operating systems kept changing and I would have lost everything.</p><p>Today, might not be so bad.&nbsp; It would be easier to do a search for something.</p><p><br /></p><p>I go by date and place of purchase.</p><p>I use a 4 column pad.</p><p>I describe the item/sometimes draw a quick sketch.&nbsp; (EAPG vase doesn&#039;t work if you buy too many.)&nbsp; </p><p>List the cost/plus sales tax(separate for sales tax purposes)</p><p>Back in the 90s, I started putting the dates on everything I kept, so I could go back to the date in the book.</p><p>Then when I want to sell something, I put it in a store inventory book.&nbsp; I list the inventory number in the original book, so I know it was put up for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>It can be time consuming if you go to estate sales and buy boxes of items.</p><p>However, if you are going to price and sell immediately then you wouldn&#039;t need to list.</p><p>I tend to keep things before selling.&nbsp; After about 20 years in was hard to remember when I bought things.&nbsp; Although I often remembered where.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You could also just start a numbering system, and put the number on the item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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