Save Money-- Turn Clutter into Cash--Part Three

Here's another way to get rid of your clutter and save money:
First go to www.craigslist.org and post items for sale on a local board. Members can also post messages about items they are looking to buy. Potential buyers contact sellers to make arrangements to check out items for sale. The two parties arrange payment, generally cash only.
Draws for sellers:
Posting is free. You don't have to ship your stuff, because buyers come pick it up themselves.
Drawbacks for sellers:
You don't get as much as you would by selling on eBay. Sellers say that sometimes prospective buyers make appointments to check out what's for sale and then don't show up.
Consignment Shops
How they work:
They take your stuff--namely clothes, baby items, toys and furniture--and put it on their store shelves and racks. When it sells, the store takes its cut and writes you a check for the rest. If your items don't sell after a certain period of time or by the end of a season, you either pick them up or let the store have them. Some stores will donate items that don't sell.
Draws for Sellers:
There's a venue to showcase your cast-offs and someone else to ring up the sale. You don't have to take phone calls from potential buyers or post photos of you stuff online. And you don't have to ship your stuff to buyers.
Drawbacks for Sellers:
You sacrifice some of your time and your earnings. The shops get a cut--60percent is standard for clothing. You typically have to make an appointment with the shop to bring in your stuff. And it probably won't take all you have to offer, leaving you to haul it someplace else i.e. to Goodwill or Salvation Army. You also have to get on the shop's inventory schedule.
For example, lots of consignment stores are not taking any more winter clothes now. Some are waiting until February to start taking spring clothing.
Hope this is a help, and as always Happy Savings!!!!





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Save Money -- Turn Clutter into Cash

Ok so now Christmas is over. Well actually we're still in the Holiday Season so maybe you haven't thought of it yet . But what are we going to do with the gifts we received for Christmas? Amy Baldwin and Amber Veverka of the Charlotte N.C. Observer have some good ideas. Let's look at a few:

If you've ever moved into a new home, had a child, or just lived in this American culture for more than a moment, there comes a day when the stuff you own turned on you.

You opened a closet to be assaulted by shirts and shoes. You stepped into your child's room and were sucked in a quagmire made entirely of bright plastic objects. You looked into your living room and saw so much furniture there was no longer room for living.

So here we are, the day after Christmas looking at all that "stuff" under the tree...we've proudly shown our haul to parents and aunts and uncles and now its time to "deal with it". There are actually a few very good helps that you can use to move out old clutter and make way for new things..or maybe just unclutter your world a little..which is a good thing. The two most popular ways to move out the old and move in the new are www.eBay.com and www.Craigslist.org..

How you chose to unclutter will depend on how much time you want to invest and how much money, if any, you care to collect. Donate your stuff and you're guaranteed to get rid of it all fast, but you get a tax write-off instead of cash. If you want to sell your stuff, eBay, which reaches prospective buyers across the globe, gets you top dollar, but you have to do some legwork and pay fees. Craigslist.org is free, but you reach a smaller, local audience. Tomorrow we will take a look at a these sites plus other ideas on ways of turning your clutter into cash.

Again from my family here at Save a Penny Save the World hope you and your family had a very Merry Christmas!!! And as always Happy Saving!!!!