Sell Your Stuff on Craigslist

One additional comment on moving out of New York City. If there is one truism that one learns when it comes time to buy or sell furniture, it is this:

CRAIGSLIST RULES!

We had a sofabed, chair/ottoman, dining room table and four chairs all for sale. I wanted to get rid of practically all of our stuff here because I had no desire to rent a van or hire movers to move a bunch of furniture that collectively was worth less than the probable cost to move it.

Within five minutes of posting my furniture on Craigslist I had two emailed responses from people interested in looking at the furniture. I tweaked the add slightly and cut the prices slightly, and within two weeks I had sold everything.

But what was so surprising was how everything seemed to work out into a preposterously convenient coincidence. The sofabed went to a guy who coincidentally lived in my building. The chair/ottoman went to a guy who already had the matching sofabed and wanted the exact model chair and ottoman I had. The dining room table and chairs (okay, I didn't actually sell the dining room table and chairs through Craigslist, but rather by posting something on the laundry room bulletin board, but still) went to a woman who worked as a nanny in my building.

The whole thing was so preposterously quick and easy--and free--that I can't understand why dead tree classified ads even exist anymore.

Thank you Craigslist!!