Good Morning to all!
How many of us have things around the house that we either don't use, bought on a whim or someone gave them to us? With Fall fast approaching and Christmas following close on it's heels it might be time to generate some extra cash.
After several years of talking about putting some things on Ebay, last August I finally got up the courage to sit down and get signed up. What I thought was going to be complicated and hard ended up being pretty straight forward. Ebay walks you through the process. You also set up a Paypal account which is where the money goes when someone buys your listing. Again this is a simple process.
I listed about 20 things. These were things lying around the house. A set of place mats I had purchased from Hobby Lobby but never even took the price tag off of them, a couple of stuffed toy Disney characters someone gave me, an old cream pitcher I hadn't used in years, a purse I didn't want any more, a old tie clip with matching cuff links that I found in the bottom of a box and Thrifty Honey even donated some things to get me started. You can take pictures of your items with your phone them upload to your listing. Next you add a description and set your price. You have to choose how you will ship, USPS or UPS. Most of my items are small so I use the Post Office. One of the great things about using them is you can pay for the postage through Paypal, print a label and ship right from your house. Ebay (10%) and Paypal ( 3%) charge a small fee for each item once it sells. Your items can be viewed from all over the world by anyone who searches for something on Ebay.
There is an app you can download to your phone so you can check your listings. The app with notify you of messages from buyers and it will ding when someone bids on one of your listings. How fun is this? You are having lunch with you best friend, your Ebay app goes off and you have a sale. Money in the bank while you go about your normal day.
So selling some things gets your closets and dresser drawers cleaned out and puts dollars in your bank account. Sounds really thrifty to me!!
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