A week and a few days ago our dryer took a dumper. Grandma has been so nice and has laundered our dirties and shuttled them back to us (gotta say that hiring a laundry service is not a terrible idea). We have no money to allot to this type of expense so Husband got all brilliant and listed 3 big-ticket items Saturday morning.
By 10am we had a call and by noon we had made $250.
By 2, another sale. This time $150.
Lastly, the item that we thought wouldn't sell, the washing machine, was loaded onto a truck along with it's broken counterpart and we were another $120 richer.
Oh and Craigslist's wonderfulness didn't stop there for us, oh no! We found a two year old washer/dryer set for $350. Husband talked the guy down to $300, got him to deliver it, and taught the boys the "art of negotiation" in the process. It was a win, win win.
If you can count, it would seem that we were "up" for the day. Sadly, due to last weekend's heinous bachelor/bachelorette expenses, the remainder of our earnings went to the American Express card.
Maybe one day we'll recoup what we are out from Tim's brother and his new wife. Is it tacky to send a bride and groom a bill for $1000 instead of a wedding present. Yeah, probably.
But Yay! Craigslist. Now if only the excellent CL could work it's magic and find us a buyer for Husband's new/old truck. That would truly be the greatest Craigslist miracle of all.
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Yay for Craigslist! ;-)
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