One-day porch sale
This Memorial Day weekend is dedicated to moving. Namely, me out of my house and into a good friend’s condo. It’s a drawn-out process because I don’t actually move until July. Yet I do have to have the place near-empty for the undergrads(+co-signing parents) that will be touring my house. I “get” to camp out in my own home, packing everything out of sight each morning save a kitchen table, my wifi router, houseplants and my bed.
As I packed, I accumulated a large, “no mercy!” corner of stuff to take to Goodwill. Worrying about the suitability of some of the items for donation, I posted a one-day porch garage sale under the “free stuff” category on Craigslist*. Two hours later, almost all of it is gone and I even got a few thank-you notes from partakers. Remarkable.
One of the items leftover—a hardcover copy of Chris Anderson’s “The Long Tail”.
* As I updated my listing as the stuff flew off the porch, I realized Craigslist doesn’t make updating a garage sale’s inventory particularly efficient. There’s gotta be app for managing online listings, inventory and sales for a garage sale. Lo and behold: GarageSale for Mac. No Craigslist integration, though I’d bet they add it if they could.
*Update*: having posted a few more items today, I did run into the notorious crap Craigslist buyer behavior…in Electronics, which figures. Fun fact: faking that a male posted the original and I, a female, was following up with a revision, the potential buyer’s disagreement about price went from mildly rude to overt sexist harassment. Wonderful. Thankfully, I use a gender-neutral username in my responses to Craigslist stuff.
