Karin and I have CLD - Craig's List Disorder.
We have been cleaning up our house and part of that has been getting rid of stuff we don't use. Yesterday I cleaned the garage and after getting rid of a bunch of stuff I was actually able to get two cars in my two car garage?!??!?!?!!? Do you know how stinking amazing that is? Do you know how rare it is? Most houses around here always have a car out in the driveway baking in the summer sun. Not us - not this year :)
Between the two of us, I think we posted like 20 things on Craig's List last night. This morning when I got up I already had 12 e-mails from people wanting to come and buy our junk - Karin had a bunch of e-mails also. When it was all said and done, about 4 people paid us for the privilege of taking our useless junk. Now that is a beautiful thing.
Word to the wise. Before you go through all that effort to throw away that useless item and cart it to the curb for the trash man (who by the way YOU pay), I would suggest putting it on Craig's List where the end result will be the same - your junk will be gone - but someone else will take it from your "curb" and they actually PAY you to do it...wow.
Where does the disorder come into play you ask...well tonight at dinner (Johny Brusco's) we considered taking the greasy plate that our pizza had been on and posting it on Craig's List....people will buy anything....
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I've actually purchased an item from Craig's List. When our daughter,
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a desk for her laptop and books, etc. She found the perfect desk
--solid wood, not one of those fake deals with cardboard backs-- from a
guy in Christiansburg (about a 90-minute drive from house, and 15-20
minutes from Blacksburg). He gave us directions to his place, and when
we got there (with me driving Jerry's huge Dodge Ram pick-up truck) he
and a muscled-up friend loaded what turned out to be a very heavy piece
of furniture onto the back of the truck. He looked Suzanne and me up
and down and asked, "You two have help, right?" "Of course we have
help!" we responded. Then all the way to her new second-story
apartment, we were a bit panic-stricken and wondered, how in the WORLD
are we going to get this thing up a flight of stairs? Just us two gals
and not a man in sight? Anyway -- we took out all the drawers, removed
the front door to the apartment and the door to the bedroom and
generally grunted and groaned the thing up the stairs BY OURSELVES. Ha!
And there it remains and will probably go on Craig's List in May of
2011 when she graduates.
Craigslist is the best. We found our apartment in DC on Craigslist, sold our car, found various jobs, and sold a bunch of junk. I hope to buy a Vespa from Craigslist someday too. What's not to love? By the way... that turtle in your yard looks a little snappish to me. What do you think? I'd say keep the kids' fingers and toes away from the little fella, or else you may have a really scary blog post in the near future.
ReplyDeleteit is amazing what people will buy....
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