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Fun for the whole family! Connecting through selling :)

by: kittywolf( 62Feedback score is 50 to 99)
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Guide viewed: 227 times Tags: kids | fun | family | selling | yard sales


E-bay isn't just for the pro sellers and entrpenuers anymore.  It can be a wonderful bodning experiance for the entire family!!

I am a stay at home mother, psychic advisor, dj and wife to be to a wonderful man who I've been with for 3 years now.  We recently got into the E-bay market and decided that selling on E-bay might be a good way to make a little extra money.  We have discovered that not only are we making a little extra money, but we are all having a winderful family time doing it too!

We started by cleaning out the closets and finding things we wanted to get rid of around the house.  Like clothes we bought and never wore, and other odds and ends we found that were packed away for ages and forgetten about.

Then we decided that we would go and check out yard sales on the weekends to see what bargains we could find.  That's when the fun began!

For the first one we went just the two of us and found a few items that we resold, but then our older daughter chimmed in and said that she wanted to go with us too and look around.

Pretty soon every Saturday & Sunday we were loading up the car with both our daughters and setting out to find bargains all over the state of Maryland where we live.  We were having fun as a family and making money at the same time!  The girls loved sharing the time with us and have now become seller savvy, looking for particular things to sell themselves on E-bay.

It has become a ritual for us now every weekend and it has trully brought our family closer together.

All you have to do is check out your local classified adds for yard sales and church sales in your area.  Church sales I have to say are usually best since there is a lot more stuff for cheaper prices.  Or you can take the extra time driving around looking for signs in well-populated areas for yard sales that haven't been listed anywhere.  Getting there is always part of the fun :)

Bring your kids and let them sell things on E-bay too.  They learn the value of a dollar and sometimes ours make a bigger return then we do :p

It is a great way to have weekend fun with your family for low cost and you can make money doing it in the long run :)  I hope this inspires more people to include thier children in thier selling experiance like we have and bring a little more love into your life.

After all isn't that what life's all about?

Thanks so much from our family!  Hope to see you and yours out yard saling sometime soon too!!


Guide ID: 10000000000949294Guide created: 05/15/06 (updated 05/17/06)

 
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