Sell Your Stuff

Have you ever sold anything? Growing up, my parents gave everything away. EVERYTHING…even my parakeet and bike. YES we were moving from Japan to the U.S. but not for a few months!

I remember how THRILLED they were when someone had agreed to TAKE our big screen TV (when they were new and really heavy/large) for FREE! They were worried about having to pay someone to haul it away. It was a perfectly good TV! Someone totally lucked out but so did my parents I guess.

When I was selling my car in my twenties, my mom scolded me and said I should be giving that thing away. Kelley Blue Book said that “thing” was worth $6000! I did list it at lower price. The young guy who bought it didn’t even ask to bargain, which I had planned for, so I knocked it down even more without him asking. He was baffled.

Be careful when you “like” something at my parents’ because it may end up in your suitcase home. I inherited a bit of that too. Please let me keep my dog. Thank you.

Well, I give lots of stuff away. I also choose to sell some of it. I totally buy outfits, shoes or purses that are pricey and only wear them a few times-I’m a woman. When I was super busy with work, I would take these no longer wanted items to a consignment shop who would sell them for me and send me a check for part of the sale.

If I have a more expensive item I want to sell or if I have the time, eBay is awesome! Sometimes I choose the auction option and other times like for the two dresses below I just set a standard price.

Here is a $200 Anthropologie dress I sold for $75 recently.

I just sold an old mac laptop (circa January 2009) at cashinyourlaptop.com for $132.

Today I sold this Juicy Couture dress for $50 on eBay. I bought it for around $80 at Marshall’s. It still looks great!

Next is my iPhone which is the best because you can really offset the cost of upgrading electronics if you do it within a good time frame while your current item is still in demand.

What have you sold recently? Have you found any good used deals?