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MasterStache

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Craigslist Score
« on: January 31, 2017, 05:29:07 AM »
Ok, maybe not Mustachian since I am spending money. BUT, we are in the middle of rehabbing the last room in our house, the kitchen/dining. Redoing the countertops and looking for a new apron/farmhouse type sink. The one I wanted is $950 online. The exact same one just happened to pop up on Craigslist yesterday brand new for $350. Hell yeah! Oh and we sold some unused furniture for $300, so really only paid $50 for a beautiful new sink.

Last summer I scored an $800 island/pendant light for $50. Thought about reselling but it looks so awesome in our dining room. 

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2017, 06:53:29 AM »
Hell yes!

I just helped wifey pick up a sweet office chair for free. Better than the one she has at work, so we'll bring her work chair home (employer is more than happy with that suggestion) and we get a sweet chair for free.

We're ALL over the free ads in Craigslist. We've picked up tons of free river rock, bricks, and landscaping stuff, and modified the entrance of our rented duplex for free (minus the labor). Awesome.

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2017, 07:49:48 AM »
Ha! Here's a different angle. DH's Craigslist Score is zero. Yup, zero. As in, he's never put anything on CL that hasn't sold. He's been using CL to obtain needed items and then to resell them, often at a profit, for decades. Love that guy!

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2017, 07:59:23 AM »
Ha! Here's a different angle. DH's Craigslist Score is zero. Yup, zero. As in, he's never put anything on CL that hasn't sold. He's been using CL to obtain needed items and then to resell them, often at a profit, for decades. Love that guy!

I've though about doing this. Especially with the pendant light. The guy wasn't advertising it hardcore. He didn't have very good pictures, a poorly worded description and nothing about make/manufacturer. I am sure I could have resold it for a good profit.

Heck I could probably resell the farmhouse sink for a profit as well. The guy had a ton of interest. I just happened to be the first to lay claim to it.   

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2017, 08:02:17 AM »
Hell yes!

I just helped wifey pick up a sweet office chair for free. Better than the one she has at work, so we'll bring her work chair home (employer is more than happy with that suggestion) and we get a sweet chair for free.

We're ALL over the free ads in Craigslist. We've picked up tons of free river rock, bricks, and landscaping stuff, and modified the entrance of our rented duplex for free (minus the labor). Awesome.

I browse the free section every morning. I've given away a lot of stuff myself for free. It's actually saved us a lot of money in terms of trying to get rid of old worthless clutter. Had a lady that made multiple trips to get roughly 600 bricks that were buried in our landscape. I had no place to put them and they were so crappy looking. She put them to good use.

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2017, 11:19:18 AM »
I only learned about the free section in Craiglist in the last year or two.  Unfortunately, I don't have a truck and we are two hours from the nearest city with a craigslist page, but man, there are so many great items listed for free! 

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2017, 12:37:57 PM »
I only learned about the free section in Craiglist in the last year or two.  Unfortunately, I don't have a truck and we are two hours from the nearest city with a craigslist page, but man, there are so many great items listed for free!

It's great. We don't have an SUV anymore so I have to temper what I can actually pick up.

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2017, 01:43:32 PM »
I am trying to get my husband interested in the free stuff on CL or Kijiji

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Re: Craigslist Score
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2017, 10:29:55 AM »
Ha! Here's a different angle. DH's Craigslist Score is zero. Yup, zero. As in, he's never put anything on CL that hasn't sold. He's been using CL to obtain needed items and then to resell them, often at a profit, for decades. Love that guy!
Since I posted this, DH listed and sold something else. We had flooring left over from a recent project. The material came from Lumber Liquidators. They give better prices the more material you buy. However, if you return any left over, they recalculate the whole job, so it can literally cost you money to return material to them.
So DH posts six boxes of flooring on CL. Guy sees it, goes to a LL, checks it out, then calls DH. He pays the full asking price and comes over to pick it up the same day. Turns out he's using it in his boat. DH spent quite a bit of time with him, discussing the best way to install the new flooring.  By the time I got home today, there was a nice empty spot in the garage, and $100 more in DH's pocket. Win-win. Maybe I should say the score is love-all.