For last week’s challenge, I decided to gather everything I was wanting to sell and put it on our local “Yardsale” page through Facebook. I sold tons of items I’ve been keeping around for my next big yardsale! If you don’t have one of these in your area, make one! Log onto Facebook and create a group. Name it whatever you want. In my town it’s called, “-MY TOWN NAME- Online Yardsales.” A lot of people in the community (over 5,000 members) takes a picture of their item for sale and posts it on this group’s page. When someone is interested, they comment on the picture and the two of you can decide a time and place to meet for the transfer. It’s much easier than Craigslist, in my opinion, because Craigslist can be… let’s face it, kind of scary.
Gone from my life : 13 Items.
This week may be difficult if you don’t have much time, but try your hardest to do as much of this as you can.
Challenge:
This week’s challenge is REMOVING DUPLICATES. Sounds easy, right? Well it is. Go through your house and do just that…. remove duplicates. Say you have two pairs of earrings that look exactly alike. Two pairs of diamond studs, well… keep one and sell the other. You can go through you whole house doing this. Keep one and sell, donate, or toss the duplicate.
A few (small) examples:
I came across a few duplicates of small items. Items that cost less than 5 dollars.
If you have duplicates of cheap items, why not donate the duplicate? It’s just taking up space… and if one day you break or lose the other, go buy another!
Don’t leave things lying around for “just in case” ESPECIALLY if they cost less than 5 dollars.
Another example: duplicates of the same product.
It’s taking up space. Things like this I understand that you may need more eventually so keep it!
However, to save room once a bottle is almost gone– pour the rest of the liquid into the other container.
This works with items that are the same exact things. Also works well with kitchen items such as ketchup, mustard, etc.
I love fingernail polish. Always have. But sometimes when I’m in a store and see a color that I just can’t live without, I end up buying it just to realize I have a bottle at home that is almost the SAME exact color.
Of course, I keep both because well.. I paid for it.
But now I’m trying to cut back on clutter.
Donate one of the fingernail polishes. People love finding a cheap bottle at thrift stores!
JUST KIDDING. 🙂
Do NOT get rid of duplicate animals! ❤
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Another idea for ridding yourself of duplicates is to have a Swap Party.
Bring all of your duplicates that you’re willing to part with (everyone at the party will do this) then trade your items based on pricing.
You’ll get rid of your duplicates, and possibly come home with something you need.
However, if you’re trying to rid yourself of clutter (like me) then donating or selling is your best bet.
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