Penny Pinching Mom

Sold Some Stuff

Hubby and I have been trying to sell some of our unwanted stuff for a while now. We hadn’t had much luck with our local trading post paper in the past, so we didn’t bother with it. We put it on the radio and on Craigslist, hoping to get a better response.

Neither of those worked out well at all. We got one legitimate response from Craigslist, and that guy expected us to meet him halfway with the tires he wanted or knock $20 off the price. We were actually going to meet him, but when I told him where we lived and asked where a good meeting place would be he never wrote back. I guess we lived further away than he was willing to drive halfway to.

The radio responses were no better. We got more of them, but they were all people who just heard “tires” and called because they missed the size. We also got one call about the air hockey table from a woman who said she would come look at it the next day but never showed.

So I finally broke down and put the tires and the air hockey table in the paper. And we sold them both this weekend! Now I’m thinking about putting some more stuff in there. We’ve got a little bit of everything laying around in the garage, with the possible exception of iphone accessories (and I don’t think many people around here would have use for those anyway, seeing how none of the local cellular companies offer service for them). I still haven’t made heads or tails out of the car parts, but there are lots of other things that might sell. I’ll have to find a few to put in the paper before the deadline this week.