We’re Finally Selling Our House
May 26, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under debt/credit, financial matters
We’re finally selling our house. You’d expect me to be jumping up and down with excitement, but I’m not.
You see, almost four years ago we bought a house. We lived in it, fixed it up, and cared for it. We wanted to make it a special place for our family. Now here we are selling it and taking a loss. A big loss. We actually have to borrow money to sell it. You may be wondering why I would be borrowing money to sell a house. Well, it’s been on the market for eight months. As you can imagine, the upkeep on …read more
It Still Hasn’t Sold :(
November 17, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters
My beautiful home has been on the market for over two months and only two people have come to look at it! :sigh: This really stinks! In the meantime, I’m stuck making payments for the house, insurance (which went up $70), taxes, and utilities. This really, really stinks!
What’s even worse is that we finally found the house we want. In all of our married life we have never found a house that we want more. We found a totally remodeled 1920s farmhouse. It is big and beautiful! It has a big deck and a nice fenced in area for the …read more
Top 30 Yard Sale Tips
July 18, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Top 25, financial matters, frugal friday, organization
As I shared earlier this week, we made $2953 at our yard sale last weekend. Prior to that, the most we had ever made was $580. I can’t guarantee that you’ll do as well as we have, but here are some tips to help you get started.
1) Go through closets, dressers, toys, cupboards, cabinets, bookcases, etc before the yard sale. Take out items that you no longer want and add them to your yard sale pile. It’s good to do this at least once a year. You may want to wait until spring when you’re doing your spring cleaning.
2) Find a decluttering …read more
Frugal Friday 35: Sell Your Stuff
December 14, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under frugal friday, frugal living
We have all this stuff sitting around my house – clothes the kids have outgrown, toys they no longer play with, things we no longer use. Yard sales are a ton of work and sometimes bear little reward for their labors. I do take a lot of clothes and toys to the consignment store, but you have to split your earnings. Sometimes I want to get more for certain items and consigning the things doesn’t seem like a good idea. So, what do you do with all your stuff?
Trust me, I’m all for helping someone and an organization. I just donated …read more
Frugal Friday 17: Using Free Classifieds
August 3, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under frugal friday
We all have things in our house that we need to get rid of. Instead of having a yard sale and underpricing your stuff, or paying to sell it on Ebay, try placing a free online classified ad.
Craigslist has become a very popular classified website. Several years ago Ebay bought 25% of Craigslist. For a while, they didn’t do anything with it and just let it sit there as an investment. But now, Ebay is going into competition with a company they partially own by launching Kijiji.com.
Now we have two free online sources for selling things. Looks like the two companies will …read more
