Furnishing the Apartment

When I moved out from Mom's and got my first apartment, I didn't have much in the way of furniture and less in the way of money. After sitting around eating dinner on the floor for a couple of weeks, I decided that I had to come up with some furniture without spending any money. I got to thinking about different ways to get stuff for nothing, and I thought that the Goodwill, Salvation Army and places like that get stuff for nothing, why not try that avenue. Since I had an old van, I could use that to pick up the stuff, so what I did was run an advertisement in the paper along the lines of, 'Free pick-up of unwanted reusable furniture and other household items'. The ad started on Sunday, and I got a bunch of calls the same day. Before long, I had an assortment of stuff. I had an old painted blue record player, a sofa that was orange and a matching chair that was not. It was the strangest collection of furniture and things that you would ever would see in one place, but at that time it served the purpose.


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Watch the Classifieds for Moving Sales

It's a fact of life that you can often times get great deals when people are under duress. If you look in the classifieds, you'll see ads for people holding a 'moving' sale. Quite often, you'll see something like 'everything must go'. These people are looking to move things fast, and although they're looking to make some money on the stuff, they're not going to want to have a garage or house full items to get rid of after the sale. You just need to let these people know that you'll take the items and worry off of their hands for FREE! Send them a business card with something like, 'Got stuff you need to get rid of in a hurry? We offer FREE pick up of unwanted reusable items'. Or you can call them a couple of days after the sale to see if they have things left that they need to dispose of.

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Selling Your Merchandise on Craigslist

In the Internet age, you have so many more options to get rid of the stuff that you have. Of course, you can sell it on Ebay, but another great place to unload much of your merchandise is Craigslist. With this site, you don't pay any fees, and since your customers are local, you can sell a lot of stuff FAST. It's a simple process to post an ad on Craigslist. Just look for an appropriate section, and place your FREE ad. I have a friend who sells and buys most of his stuff through Craigslist. It's a great place to find some real bargains as well, so take some time and check it out.

Getting Free Things on the Internet

There are many companies that give away free things on the Internet. Things like computers, Ipods, Cell Phones, even cash. The way it works is that you sign up for an offer from one of the freebie sites, and you have to complete offers OR/AND refer people to the site. For instance, there is one site that is giving away a free IPod for 5 'greens'. To see how it works, check out the following site;

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How to Get Free Things to Sell on Ebay or Flea Markets

This simple method of getting free stuff works. Although I'm no longer doing this, I'm sure that if you follow these simple steps, you'll wind up with so much stuff that you might have to get someone to take some of your stuff.

It works like this, grab the weekend papers, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Go to the classified section where it lists 'Moving Sales'.. look for the ones that have addresses as well as phone numbers. Make a list of ones in your area. Visit some of them that are close, generally wait until Sunday to visit them and take note of what they have and how much they have left.

Now what you want to do is use a two pronged approach. After visiting the location, before leaving give them one of your business cards that you will have printed up before hand that states something like 'We remove unwanted reuseable items-FREE!' Next, sometime during the weekend, make a list of places that had a good bit of inventory and what you want to do is on Sunday evening mail out a letter to them with your letterhead again stating who are you, and that you'll take away unwanted reusuable items in a hurry...FREE

If they're moving real soon and still have a bunch of stuff left, they'll start to feel the pressure, and when you letter shows up stating again that you'll get rid of their unwanted stuff, well, you'll get your share of business.

One of the things that you'll have to be careful of is that the people may try and unload a lot of junk on you but just let them know as your ad states, you only take reuseable stuff. Now, if they want to throw in some nice pieces in order for you to take some of the other less desirable things, well, then that's your call.

From experience I can tell you that you'd be amazed at what people give away. I've received whole apartments full of furniture, antiques, even had people several times try to give me their pets; dogs, cats, rats and snakes. You just never know! One things for certain though is that you'll have lots of things to sell at flea markets and on Ebay and you might even find some real treasures along the way.

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