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Nice. I would have done the same.
I frequently post things up on Craigslist and have been noticing a lot of the responses/replies end up landing in my spam folder lately.
Never noticed a problem before until last fall. Put something up that I figured should have at least 10 replies…and nothing. Checked my spam folder a day later just in case, and there they were.
I’d go with the coats and jackets first.
I hear you on the dinnerware, I hate listing that stuff and do my best to avoid it. However it doesn’t avoid me. LOL I have a bin of it to list that I have a $0.00 investment in … and it’s stuff that seems to sell…so the $$ factor wins. I’m slowly working through it. Thinking about how happy I will be to see the bottom of the bin.
I have a couple larger AV items to test and list also, testing may happen, but I prefer to wrestle with large boxes while not skating on ice, so listing may not.
Most days I try to list based on what I hate looking at the most when I walk in my garage/storage area. Listing that item might not be my first choice, but oh the happiness when I say goodbye….
I bag mine, wrap in b-flute cardboard and ship in a poly mailer like Ryanne. I love b-flute for books because you can wrap them snug to prevent any shifting. The really valuable ones, really heavy, or multiple lots always get bagged and boxed up with a good layer of padding around them.
Just browsing this to see how Craigslist is fairing in other parts of the country.
I’ll echo Luftmentsh here, that and the fact that I’m 30+ miles from the hub of it makes it not even worth checking most days, although I still do.
…and I see so many posting free furniture and things around here I would have thrown out years ago wanting a verifiable story of “need” and hardship before they’re willing to give it away. Ugh.
I find 10x more stuff, in better shape, more than I can use or sell sometimes at the curb on trash days. I’m just one person with a very small house, so I can get totally overwhelmed with it fast if I’m not careful, usually then I’ll pick through it and set the rest out by the road next to the mailbox with a big free sign on it…it normally disappears like magic in less than an hour since I’m next to a main highway.
I’ve caught a couple of pickers and their kids literally doing a happy dance out by the mailbox a couple of times looking out the window to see if things were gone. Way cool.
I’ll second the warning WBird posted, I had one of my own Vellux blankets do that once upon a time. They can kill the washer too, clogging the filter/pump/hoses.
They dry rot with age. So if you see one looking all warm and nice in the original package, do yourself a big favor and run away.
Definitely a nut box. Who would of thought? I never knew they existed, I learn something new all the time here. LOL
Check this one out.
Different design but similar.
SO owns a tavern, and the basement was flooded this spring, lost a lot of stuff. Among the casualties were the holiday decorations. I had enough spare stuff to take care of 75% of it, all except lights. We were just getting ready to go buy them, I decided to go out “curb shopping” the day before. Spied a couple 30 gallon totes at a house recently put up for sale, one full of broken ornaments, and some random decor, but the other was full to the brim with lights, over half of them brand new in dusty boxes, LED lights. Every single strand worked.
The missing base on the other actually might make it easier to sell online. : )
Here’s an article on cleaning.
http://www.treadleon.net/sewingmachineshop/cleaningmachines/cleaningmachines.html
Heed the advice on staying away from the ammonia based, or harsh cleaners, some will turn the gold decals silver.
I wish.
Late night packaging often.
I end up taking everything down to the basement.The struggle is real. LOL
The one mounted on the table I believe is a Singer walking-foot industrial machine used for heavy fabrics or leather.
I would either separate it from the table, offer local pickup only…or go the Craigslist route depending on what I encountered during clean up.
I was gifted a singer treadle with the same amount of rust from someone’s basement. It was frozen solid and was a bear to get unstuck and clean up, but eventually with a lot of time and work it did clean up nicely.
I took the Craigslist route on that one.
Most of them will easily unbolt from the stand, and the legs of the stand unbolt fairly easily from the top…(should you ever need to move one of these barges by yourself like I’ve had to).
Love finding this thread. I’m a big fan of Martin’s…been doing this for years but a little differently since the area I’m in is pretty rural. No dumpsters nearby, but I’m in the middle of about 3 townships with varied trash schedules and I do curb shopping probably on a weekly basis while driving around running errands. I have not bought a mower, a gas trimmer, or lawn furniture for years.
I take a break during the colder months and when things get overwhelming. The last couple month’s finds included a beautiful resin wicker love seat, a set of brass fireplace tools, a small fire safe, 2 more gas trimmers, some random yard stuff, a vintage Motorola “brick” with the chargers, some vintage soda crates full of 78 records that went back out to the curb (kept the crates), and a larger glass patio table that was on my “curbside wish list”.
I have a set of Mikasa stoneware (service for 8, with butter dish etc.) that I am still in the process of sorting through found mid-summer. Thinking of listing it in pieces of 4 or 8, serving pieces separate? or Craigslist?
I hate this. I have neighbors like this. They think it’s just “awful” that people buy things at thrift stores or yard sales and resell them to make a profit. They’ve told me before I should “get a real job”.
They have no idea. lol
Like Ryanne, most of the income generated from our local thrift stores goes to the food bank, for helping people pay there bills, and finding keeping/housing for those in need. The few that really need clothes due to house fires or having school age kids are given clothing vouchers and the local church thrift stores will let them in before the store opens.
