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Monday, October 19, 2020

Yard sales....everything must go

 Have you ever had a yard sale?   


I have never had my own.  I remember growing up we would have them or at least go in with neighbors and sell our old stuff there.  It was a time to meet neighbors and pass on old things.  As a kids it was also a treasure hunt for some unknown treasure.

 

Here we are pandemic and doing our best to lower our expenses and not live like a hermit.  My wife if very much against having a yard sale even if we didn't have the pandemic to worry about.  So my old solution is to sell online or donate.  


I've sold a couple of things in the past on ebay.  And Ipad when they were hard to get many years ago.  I think paypal/ebay made more money on it then I did.   This problem I'm trying to get around it one selling the items at a price the is fair and with all the fees taken out it is still good. Then trying to figure out how to ship the items.   This is easy for smaller items, but something big like a Stroller I have no clue.  My current solution is to pick up local, but I consider using bubble wrap and plastic rap.

 

Hopefully over the next month or so I can cleanup my basement from all the kids old things and have this all figured out with a healthy amount of cash to go along with it.

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