Since this coming Saturday, May 14, is Give Your Stuff Away Day, I thought I’d suggest alternative options for redistributing items you own but no longer want. You can post your free items on Craigslist (there’s a Free category under For Sale ) or Freecycle and let them know they can find the items at [...]
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I started getting the warning notices from Amazon a few weeks ago. This year, like every year I’ve been a seller on Amazon, they are enacting the Holiday Selling Guidelines in Toys and Games, which means I get booted from selling toys or games for the holiday season. Why are they doing this? “We [...]
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I was happy to hear of a grassroots movement started by a Rochester area man called Give Your Stuff Away Day. Mike Morone of North Chili has designated Saturday May 15 for that day. I probably only live a couple of miles from Morone so I’m amazed I’ve never heard of his efforts. Morone is [...]
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I have lots of suggestions on what to do with that unwanted gift card you got for Christmas.
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Back in October, in my Tricky Topic blog, I wrote about the art of pricing things to sell. Here are some tips for selling locally, like on Craigslist.
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One of the trickiest parts of selling things is determining the price. You want to price things so you’re not giving things away but you don’t want to ask so much that no one buys. The approach to pricing is different depending upon how you plan on selling.
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If your child is going into high school, they may need one of those expensive graphing calculators for math. I had already decided I wasn’t going to pay $100 for a graphing calculator.
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When I have bunches of similar items that I want to sell I have a very effective way to do it. I got this idea from a woman who was trying to sell some leftovers from her garage sale and she posted a link to an online photo album showing the individual items along with [...]
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In preparation for the upcoming garage sale I had my kids go through their books one more time to get rid of any they didn’t want anymore. They came up with quite a few. I grouped them by series, took pictures and posted them up on Craigslist and another local online classifieds, Rochester Classifieds Online, [...]
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