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Well, I heard back from the person who wanted to buy my craigslisted Bath and Body Works stuff part deux and she still does. So supposedly we are meeting Friday for her to buy it. We’ll see, but I’m feeling optimistic. I need to get on the ball and list more stuff. I got batteries for the camera so now I just need to take some more pictures and download everything, and I could have 4 or 5 more listings up pretty easily. I just need to… DO it. Or even just download the camera how it is, I’ve got two sets of pics on it right now. Hopefully I’ll get on that today.

And I did indeed win the coupons and they should be mailed tomorrow. Yay!

Happy 4th of July! I’ll probably be back with more ramblings later

~J

Well, it is the end of the month, and I listed my craigslist item for today (a collection of avent bottles and cups and adaptors)  so I have completed my challenge to myself to list one thing a day on craigslist for the rest of the month of June.

So far, I have had three buyers and netted $81.  I have inquires pending about a further $15.  So all in all, for things just taking up space in my house, I am happy with the outcome.  Hopefully I will get a few more sales.

I challenged myself to do this because it was outside my comfort zone.  I’ve never sold anything online (or really, sold anything, other than at our recent yard sale, I think) so it made me nervous to get out there and do it.  But I did, and I am proud of myself.

I am not going to abandon craigslist.  I am still thinking about what exactly I am going to set my goal at for listing, but I think it will be in the 1-3 items a week range for at least the next two months.   Maybe at least 1 new thing and then either new things or relisting things that haven’t sold for the other two.  I am still working out the details in my head.  But when I decide and make a plan, you’ll be the first to know .

Next target…. ebay.  I need to step up and learn ebay.  But I think that will probably wait until after our September yard sale.  I just find local sales simpler.  But there are some specialty items that I just think may sell better to a broader audience (like my son’s outgrown XW shoes and some Gymboree clothes of my daughter’s that I don’t want to sell for $1 per piece).

Another day, another avenue for making a dollar. 

~J

I had mentioned earlier how I got a $10 amazon.gift card for doing a survey. Well today I got credited for a focus group I did for a different survey site and got $10 deposited into my paypal account .

The survey gods are smiling down on me. Many small snowflakes are flying now. The $8 sale today, the $10 just now to paypal, and I potentially have another $10 craigslist sale lined up, have to see how it pans out. An $18 or $28 snowflake coming soon! :clap:

~J

So I sold $8 more of baby clothes.  Yippee!

Yay for craigslist .  When my daughter is up from her nap we may take a trip over to the bank to deposit it, or I may go this weekend when I am out already.  Depends on how long my son wants to play outside first.

Life is good

~J

I got an email from someone interested in seeing the baby clothes, specifically the 6-9 months stuff.  Since most of what the other woman bought was 0-6 month stuff, this is exciting since I still have a lot of that left!  Yay!

The ad that took me the least amount of time and thought is netting me the most interest and profit.  Imagine that.  lol

Initiated a transfer of $674.56 to the ING account today.  Once it posts (July 2 ING says) I will do the following:

Create a “daughter” subaccount and transfer $10 to it for the start of my daughter’s college fund (we all start somewhere).

Create a “household” subaccount and transfer $150 to it (spouse’s birthday money).  This will be our longer-term savings for home improvements, long term projects, etc.

That will leave $1039.56 in the main account (entitled “son”).  This is our son’s college savings account.  He is 2 1/2 years older so he has a little bit of a head start.  the $14.56 is the interest his old savings account had accrued.

This leaves $650 in our own bank savings account for our emergency fund, which I will bump up to $1000 (or as close as I can manage) when I get paid in July.  The ING “household” account for now will get any irregular expenses $$ we save up for things that happen annually that I budget for each month, to keep it separate from the emergency fund for now.  Eventually annual expenses will get saved in our regular bank savings, and a separate ING subaccount will be created for “emergency fund”.

Slowly I am getting everything in order.  I am going to start depositing just a little bit to each college savings every month.  I know it will slightly take away from the debt reduction BUT this is what *I* want to do.  It makes me feel better about things to be saving for them even a tiny bit at a time.  I wrote it into the budget.  Call it discretionary spending if you will.

Once we are out of debt that saving will increase substantially.

~J