Selling unaived Toys Makes My Kids More Willing to Part With – ryan

Over the years, my family of six has accumulated a lot of stuff – a tear. Clothing, Toys, Sports Equipment, You name it, I probably had it somewhere in my house.

The Pandemic Only Made Things Worsse for us. AFTER ALL, WE WERE SPEING MONTHS UPON MONTHS ISOLATED AT HOME. We Needed to Keep Our Four Kids Occupied while we worked. SO we bought stuff, and more stuff, and more stuff.

BetWeen that difficult time, plus many birthdays and oter Gift-receiving Holidays, The clutter JUST JUST KEPT ACCUMULATING AND I WAS DROWNING – UNIL I CAME UP WITH A DECLUTTERING MY KIDS WERE ACTUALLY INTO.

IT’s been hard for the kids to let go

Like Mary Kids, Mine will not like to part with their, so do they are no longer Used or don’t fit. THEN IT DAKED ON ME ONE DAY, WHY NOT sell The Items with a goal in mind?

I motivated my kids to clean out their rooms and our garage by sting that any Money we made from selling items Waled Go Into a Group End to Buy, and Others, Future Gifts. Christmas is Our Holiday Favorite, Followed by Our Kids’ Birthdays. Finding the Perfect Gift for Others is Important to Us and It Something We Put a Lot of Efffort Into. Our Goal Wasn’t JUST ABOUT OURSELVES, WHICH WAS IMPORTANT TO ME.

Suddenly, My Kids Were Highly Motivated to Part With Too-Sweatshirts, Toys They Never Played With Anymore, and the Bigger Items Like Outgrown Bicycles. I was Making Progress.

The Sales Started Adding Up

I LISTED The Items in Facebook Groups Designated for Locals to sell to one another.

Within a few weeks, i haad sold my own gently-used bicycle for $ 75. Not Bad for Something That Had Been Sitting Unused in Our Basement Storage for Over Five Years. It was Silly to Hang on to Such Big and Profitable Gear.

My Kids Quickly Got in the Action. One sold a skateboard that has had been gathering dust in the garage for over a year. My Daughter Sold Her Too-Small Soccer Cleats, Only Used Indoors and For Eight Weeks. And we all sold lots of youth Clothing.

The Challenge was fun

Our Newer Goal of Cleaning Up and Making Money for Our Gift End Felt Like a Fun Challenge for the Kids, Which Helped Get Excited. Along the way, they have brought with ittems to sell that i’ve vetoed. With Four Kids, we Pass down A LOT OF TIMES, LIKE WINTER COats. We are anen’t going to buy Items, sell say, and turn Around and Buy Another New Winter Coat, for Example. Estabished the rule that get the final say on if something is sold or not.

One key to makeing this Gift end sucssful is Making Sure Our Seller Profile Gets Great Reviews. Therefore, we make sura to accuratly list the condition of ittems, price say fairly, and respond to mesages quickly. Right Now, We Have 5 Stars.

Some Items We Give Away for Free

Any Items we no longer use and are in fairy condition are listeed on our local “Buy Nothing” Social Media Page. For Example, All Four Kids Had Outgrown A Pair of Snow Boots that were Still Usable but appeared very worn. I LISTED The day before we were supposed to get a foot of Snow, and they were picked up with a few hours. It is we can we can’t make a buck off an ittem, my kids are now in cleaning-out mode, and someone else gets to enjoy the Item.

We started out Gift End in Januly, and We Currently Have About $ 200 in It. This May Not SEEM Like a Big Chunk of Change, but Once the Kids Are Home on Summer Break, I will be a lot of organizing and listening.

SINCE SO MANY People are Always Looking for A Good Deal, Our plan was a win-twin. Our Home is less cluttered, we’re padding out the end, and others get to enjoy the itete we no longer use.