So, life has settled back into the mundane routine lately. Work and home and groceries and so on. That is, if you included putting a roof on a new house as quickly as you can and packing up boxes with labels such as, "Books for Baltimore!" and "Books to open in our new mansion in Detroit!" But, we're toodling along at a breakneck pace.
And in the midst of this Phoenix chapter closing, I am trying to downsize my things. Which has been an adventure. A Craigslist Adventure:
It started off so well initially. I decided that Odie's treadmill did not need to move to Baltimore with us. Thus, with our quickly imposed delivery fee, Sterling and I were able to make $145 one day after the posting. Wonderful! I thought. This will be lucrative and fast! And then things slowed down... Way down.
I have since had one scammer and 3 pornography sites be interested in my vacuum and lamps (vacuum, really? How cliche.) I have received one email from someone that was "heartbroken because her daughter had been waiting all day" when I mistakenly sold an item to the wrong person (after it had been posted for two weeks, suddenly, it was red hot!). I have reduced the prices on pretty much everything else. But, this morning I made $7 on my old television and I am about to make $10 on my rug. Yee-ha, baby! We also made $50 from a red couch that Sterling picked up from the street, cleaned off, used for a few months and resold. If public health and internet companies don't work out, we've got a gig with street finds and craigslist.
Of course, it is quite hard for me to part with a dresser from the 1970s that was originally my aunt's and uncle's, then my parents', and then mine or the loveseat that was my grandparents', then my parents', then mine. (I hope I'm not hearing murmurs of "You should replace all that crap, Katherine.") But, I am doing it. Slowly, slowly. But, eventually.
In the meantime, buy my old modem for only $5! It's a steal!
And in the midst of this Phoenix chapter closing, I am trying to downsize my things. Which has been an adventure. A Craigslist Adventure:
It started off so well initially. I decided that Odie's treadmill did not need to move to Baltimore with us. Thus, with our quickly imposed delivery fee, Sterling and I were able to make $145 one day after the posting. Wonderful! I thought. This will be lucrative and fast! And then things slowed down... Way down.
I have since had one scammer and 3 pornography sites be interested in my vacuum and lamps (vacuum, really? How cliche.) I have received one email from someone that was "heartbroken because her daughter had been waiting all day" when I mistakenly sold an item to the wrong person (after it had been posted for two weeks, suddenly, it was red hot!). I have reduced the prices on pretty much everything else. But, this morning I made $7 on my old television and I am about to make $10 on my rug. Yee-ha, baby! We also made $50 from a red couch that Sterling picked up from the street, cleaned off, used for a few months and resold. If public health and internet companies don't work out, we've got a gig with street finds and craigslist.
Of course, it is quite hard for me to part with a dresser from the 1970s that was originally my aunt's and uncle's, then my parents', and then mine or the loveseat that was my grandparents', then my parents', then mine. (I hope I'm not hearing murmurs of "You should replace all that crap, Katherine.") But, I am doing it. Slowly, slowly. But, eventually.
In the meantime, buy my old modem for only $5! It's a steal!
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