Day 39: Turning Clutter into Cash

The gone-ski piles made a run for the exit.

Donation pile ready to go

We packed all the goods into bags to ensure they remain in good condition for sale at the charity shops. They're in the car ready to be dropped off.

 

All quality items went up for sale

We used a local online Facebook community of around 29,000 people to register our quality gone-ski items for sale. So far we have sold $48 worth of goods. The money is going into a tin can to be used for holidays and family fun stuff.

A couple of principles we followed:

• Take good photos
• Be descriptive
• Make it a fair price or even a bargain
• Hashtag your items so you can find them online (I used #debsgoodsforsale).
• This enables people to look at all your stuff in one viewing 
• Take any fair offer 

One example was a 1996 Guinness Book of Records. I don't recall anyone opening it. We put it up for $2. A young guy jumped on it and said SOLD. He came straight over. Turns out he is collecting every year and was so happy he gave us $5. Fancy that!

You never know what is gold to someone else...so test the market.

The way I look at it, these items will go to someone who wants them and in return we get a small return on our time and energy. This prevents them going into a rubbish tip or sitting around cluttering the charity shops.

 

What went out - 2 items

A couple of things from Sammi's room

 

What came in - 0 items

Nothing to report

INSIGHTS

(1) One mans trash can be another mans treasure
(2) One mans trash can simply be trash

TOTAL: OUT - 742  IN - 64