Online selling is really where it’s at these days! Whether you have excess stuff, make stuff you want to sell, or want to make a business out of selling stuff online, this post is for you. There are all sorts of sites where you can list your “stuff,” but I’ve put together a bunch of my favorites {or the ones I’ve heard the best reviews about!}.
Here they are in no particular order:
Etsy: If you handmade goodies, this is my favorite place to sell! It’s where thousands of the coolest, most talented humans on the planet come together to sell the most awesome handmade stuff. And the more time I spend on Etsy, the more blown away I am by the crazy talent out there. Because of that, there might be a lot of competition out there and you’ll need to make sure your products are different and marketable!
Facebook: Facebook wanted to get into the local buying-and-selling game so they recently launched a Marketplace, a new mobile classifieds section. It’s pretty awesome. You can click on it from the app and see everything locally that people are selling. No fees, lots of pictures, and massive exposure for free. Of course the downside is, much like Craigslist {which Marketplace IS Facebook’s version of Craiglist!}, you typically have to meet up with strangers to sell your goods!
Amazon: While I love shopping on Amazon, selling on Amazon is equally as awesome. Part of what makes Amazon such a rad place to sell your stuff is that your used stuff goes right up for sale next to the new versions of the same products, so considering how many people browse Amazon for just about everything, that’s a huge potential audience. In addition to the hundreds of millions of Amazon customers who can see your products, selling on Amazon is awesome because you have the ability to start selling fast without the need to create a new standalone website. Plus, listing your item is easy peasy!
eBay: Selling your stuff on eBay can be awesome. But you have to know what you are doing, or it could actually cost you! I love eBay because it reaches a HUGE amount of people, far more than if I try to sell anywhere else. I’m not a pro or anything, but I’ve found when I follow these simple steps, I make so much more money than I would otherwise.
Craigslist: Selling your”junk” on Craigslist is awesome, because you don’t have to pay shipping costs like you would on ebay. BUUT you should use some caution, because Craigslist is also a hotbed for scams and scammers. Check out My Tips for Selling on Craigslist!
Tradesy.com: Tradesy is a buy-and-sell marketplace for fashion, built by and for women. If you want to pluck clothes straight from your closet and reach millions of stylish members, this is the way to go. But it’s not the only go-to place to sell your clothing. Next up…
ThredUp.com: ThredUp is an online consignment store whose mission is to help customers afford the brands and designers they might not normally be able to. If you’ve cleaned out your closet and you’re looking to sell high-quality, practically new women’s and kids’ clothing and accessories, this is the place! You can check their website to see which brands of your secondhand clothes they take and what the payouts are for each. Then all you have to do is order a ThredUp Clean Out Bag, fill it with the stuff you want to sell, and place it at your door for pick-up. I love simplicity like that!
These next 2 I have never used myself, but I have heard great things about. I know people that have had great success using them.
Bonanza: Bonanza sells all sorts of things, like clothing, books, toys, games, etc. Lots of listings, lots of exposure to sell your stuff.
Swappa: Swappa focuses almost exclusively on smartphones and tablets of all types, and has a huge userbase of people both selling and buying devices in good, workable condition.
How about YOU? Have you sold anything online? What site do you prefer?
~Mavis
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Hi Mavis!
The house is a very ordinary, cookie cutter 1000 sq feet, but it was clean, sound and freshly painted and the lot is .33 acre. When we walked out the back door we were sold! The house had been bank owned and the lawn was half dead and loaded with weeds so our first summer was primarily spent digging out weeds and just keeping it watered consistently. It greened up pretty well and we were quickly convinced that we needed much less lawn to mow. 😀
Since then we’ve built garden beds, covered the paths between them with weed fabric, added a shed and parking area for my husbands work truck/trailer, gotten chickens, added various flower and herb beds, five baby fruit trees and two grapes, and finally this spring we finished adding gravel and cobble to cover and edge all of our pathways. Oh, and we’ve had three kids since moving in. 😉
We could tell when we started working with things here that someone in the house’s history had cared a bit about the landscape. There was a gazebo and quite a few pavers hiding in the grass and the one back flower bed. Re-purposing the pavers helped us quite a bit as we tried to be frugal with our first modifications to the environment.
Last year we added a long herb bed along the back of the house and it has been another favorite place of mine. This area initially had some of the thickest, tallest growing grass in the yard and I was sure that we would have to dig out the sod, but Ben wanted to try something else. He mowed it short, then we put down a layer of cardboard, topped it with a thick layer of grass clippings, and spent a couple days watering it really heavily. Then we topped it with a couple inches of compost.
I was initially skeptical about the method, but the results were amazing. I grew basil from seed and they absolutely stole the show in this space. They got, no exaggeration, three feet tall. Once I finally let them bloom I had the hum of hundreds of happy bees right out my back door. This year the basil is seeming more normal sized, but my lavender, bee balm and chamomile have gotten established and are all blooming beautifully.
This years garden is looking great! After a rough start in the house the tomatoes are enormously bushy and loaded with blossoms and the first brave one is almost ripe. I’m most excited for the cherry tomatoes and I hope I managed to plant a good rainbow of them. The strawberries had an epic second year.
We started last year with 25 bare root plants and this year we got about six pounds of berries. I started squash inside this year, which I’ve never done before and have already harvested 4. The pumpkins and winter squash are super long and viney, taking over my corn bed already. Definitely miles ahead of other years. Garlic is just about harvest ready. A new seed start for this year was celery. I started them inside and finally moved these tiny plants outside in the shade of the garlic (not expecting too much) and they’ve really been taking off now that they’re in the ground.
Our original garden beds are made from 6ftx5.5in cedar fencing boards. We chose this method because the sizing is very convenient, it involved minimal cutting 🙂 and the price seemed reasonable for our frugal selves. We have twelve 3×6 foot beds, and paid something like $130 for fencing, screws, and some other wood. They have worked quite well, but after five years a couple of them are starting to show some real wear.
We got 6 chickens a year and a half ago and added 7 chicks this spring. They all have names. We get 3-6 eggs a day from our three year old hens and are eagerly waiting for the chicks to start laying eventually. The new chicks got very socialized by our kids and will all come mill around when I go in to check eggs or take pictures. This is Jump learning about my expectations for her.
Between the garden and 13 laying hens I think we will be eating a lot of food grown by us this year. We are really looking forward to a couple years from now when the fruit trees get producing. We’ve already decided that planting trees is something we’ll have to do first at the next house, instead of five and six years in like we’ve done here. 🙂
Quote of the Day “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart
REI Garage Deal of the Day
Take last Saturday morning for example.
Fast forward to 9 am Sunday morning and I’m standing inside the home of someone I don’t know looking through their things along with about 50 other people. I assume this person has died and one of their relatives is selling the persons estate.
It felt strange being there, going through the belongs of someone {presumably dead} I don’t know, hoping to find something I might be interested in enough to pay for and take home.
Yard sales are one thing, but going through this person’s home and garage was a little unsettling to me. It made we want to cry. All of those things… they belonged to someone. Why didn’t this persons family want them? Donate them? Give them away to someone that did? It was then as I was standing there with all these questions swirling around in my head that I realized that I had never been to an estate sale before. Or at least I couldn’t remember ever going to one.
The garage had minimal tools, there were hundreds of cookbooks and the amount of figurines were astounding. And the VCR collection, I’m going to go out on a limb and say Grandma didn’t have cable tv. 😉 And this was the second day of the sale, I can only imagine what all was there on day one.
The thing that almost made me lose it though was the master bedroom. Or rather the dresser. My grandparents had the exact same dresser in their bedroom. And their dresser was scattered with old photographs, statues of Madonna and rosary beads too.
