I am a minimalist when it comes to accumulating a lot of stuff, and so is my husband. On that we agree. However, as we stared sorting through our stuff and deciding what to give away, what to sell, and what to keep, to my surprise, we disagreed on almost everything! If he wanted to keep it, I wanted to give it away. If I wanted to give it away, he wanted to sell it. Therefore sorting through our stuff took a little longer than I expected. 
I usually am of the mind of giving things away rather than selling them. After all, who would want this stuff I’m now considering “basement clutter”. WRONG. My husband is taking care of selling on eBay and Craigslist, , blow me down, most of the items he has put on eBay (if we can easily ship) or Craigslist (for bigger items), have sold in a day for what he asked! So far we sold a treadmill, an exercise bike, a set of luggage, real estate investment books and DVD’s. I’ve been stunned at how easy it was. And so far we’ve netted nearly $2000! Wow! And we still have quite a few more big items to sell. And to think I wanted to give it away.
However, don’t just slap some crappy ad on there and expect these sort of great results. In my next post, I’ll show you an ad he did for an unusual big ticket item.
So here is my home selling tip for today. When getting your house ready to sell for sale by owner, consider using eBay and Craigslist to help. You will be recycling at it’s best. And other people will PAY you to remove your unwanted stuff!
