Wednesday, March 31, 2010

My Adventures with Craigslist

My month of vacation has now officially started.  Now, now....it's not all fun and games.  I have been keeping myself super busy and I don't even get to sleep in.  Boyfriend needs a ride to work everyday at 7:30am, because he and brother share a car.  So, even though it's vacation - I'm busy.  Busy doing what you ask?

Well, I have a list about a mile long of things to keep me busy.  Topping the list is figuring out the best way to pay back my loans, try to find a place to live in Tucson (or at least a handful of places to look at once I get down there), sell most of my school books, have a moving sale and get rid of things I don't need, read for fun, try to learn more Spanish, cook a ton, and sell most of my furniture --- enter Craigslist.

I was thinking that once I put my furniture up on Craigslist it would take a few weeks for it to sale. Well, let me tell you I was waaaayyyy wrong.  Within 2 hours of posting my furniture, I had over twenty responses.  It was crazy!  I obviously did not charge enough.  So within a matter of hours nearly all of my furniture was possibly sold.

Couch, loveseat, bed, bookcase, dresser, kitchen table and chairs, coffee table, TV stand.  The only things I will be left with were my desk, because I hadn't posted that yet and the TV, because that's not mine to sell.  Oh and my patio furniture that I'm hoping to possibly squeeze in the back of my car for the drive across the country.

I posted all of my furniture yesterday, made a separate label for craigslist in my gmail account and...that file has 74 emails from people interested in the stuff!!!!

So there you go, if you have furniture to sell craigslist may be the way to go.

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Also, I have not forgotten:

Green Challenge #13:  Only using real silverware.  (No disposable utensils)

This means when eating out or eating at the hospital cafeteria (which I will likely be doing a lot next year), I have to bring my own utensils.

I have no facts for you on how this, but you can figure it out!

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