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Should I have a yard/tag sale. Weekends are usually the days for them and advice from others would help. I hate to haggle and interaction with all manner of strangers simply makes me want to use eBay.
I can't ask the DK community for money because I am too skeptical of others' requests even though most seem quite authentic - too much residual mistrust of the anonymity of the the Web. Also because I have to suck it up and get it together, despite my particular issues with my mother and the residual grief of the loss of my spouse. And meatspace friends, did I drive them away, do I have any left. Yeah this should just get put over in the WYFP area, because it's all FPs. On the bright side, I've lost weight but that's pretty much it considering how few and far between interest from employers has been. Every day send out X applications, and concurrently get X rejections in the stream of time lags.
How to Make $1000 in a WeekendExperts say every smart woman needs a side hustle right now. Try these to bring in the cash fast.
When I told my husband last summer that I wanted to throw a big weekend yard sale, he took in the news with his usual stoic resolve. He's seen my cockamamy moneymaking schemes before: the eBay store that quickly fizzled, the "resellable" cupcake stands from our wedding that are still moldering in the garage, previous yard sales where I mostly chatted with neighbors before lugging our stuff back inside. Expectations were not high. So this time, I really worked it. I advertised ahead of time on Craigslist and in local papers, put a sign in my yard days ahead, and prepriced everything so people wouldn't have to ask. We made $700 in two days.
"Done right, yard sales can bring in good money," says Chris Heiska, founder of the website yardsalequeen.com, where I gleaned many of my tips. Another yard-saler, Carrie Grindle, a mom in Oregon, OH, regularly clears $500 a day at her sales. Her strategy: Any time one of her kids outgrows a piece of clothing or tires of a toy, she prices it before tossing it in a box to await the next sale.
"Everyone needs a side hustle," says Jason White, who started the personal finance blog frugaldad.com as a hobby that now brings in cash from ads. "In this economy, it's risky to depend on one source of income. And for most of us, it's the best way to pay down debt." The secret, White says, "is to cultivate a business around something you're already good at."
There is much sadness in the preceding diary in KTK and I urge you to share your support there as well as in this diary.
Sat May 30, 2015 at 7:35 PM PT: Beau Biden, attorney general of Delaware and son of Joe Biden, dies of brain cancer at 46
Life is too f*ing short