First of all, forgive me of my lack of posting. Life is just taking me away….. Even with this post, I feel like I’ve written this before but I can’t find it. So…since that’s the case, I’ll post this regardless (hehe).
My friend has a son that went away to college this year. She now has a spare room that they’re re-organizing. That meant their daughter is growing older and wanted to do some re-organizing too. That meant new bedroom furniture for her. If it were me, I would have gotten rid of the old furniture by handing it down to my parents or throwing it in the dumpster. The furniture is still in GOOD shape. I am just too lazy and inconvenienced to do anything but that. You know what my friend did? She posted it on Craigslist.com and sold the old furniture for MONEY. She used the money she earned from the old furniture to buy new furniture. And I’m not saying *brand new* furniture, but new furniture for their daughter. She went online again, Craig’s List to find this new furniture for her daughter. It wasn’t junk, just barely used. Why go out and buy spanking new furniture when this will do the trick? After all, it’ll only be a couple years when their daughter may go to college and not need this furniture.
Last week I heard someone say that she could sell all the stuff in her room to pay for a shelter for a family in Mexico. Our church built a small home in their parking lot, $2500 in wood turned into walls of a small home. They’re bringing it to Mexico for a family in a couple weeks. Why do we buy all this stuff? And then why do we get rid of it as if it’s trash? The least we can do is try Craig’s List to buy and sell, to recycle our goods.
One Response to Recycle on Craig’s List