Time for a highly-spirited post with a sprinkling of fun to it. I like selling stuff and I’m pretty good at it, I sold 5 umbrellas at a go so I can sell anything really! I like looking for deals and the freebies that I can sell. I like putting my ‘clean-up’ hat on and selling the good stuff we are not using to give it a new lease of life. It doesn’t make me rich but it gives me a little fun scouting for deals and looking for buyers. The little “pocket money” I get is pretty sweet too.
I’ve had a pretty busy first 3 months and mostly unintentional as I stumbled across these deals in my normal course of activities and saw the opportunity to make a quick buck. I don’t think the rest of the year will see this much activity but who knows!
Meyer Air Fryer & 30cm Neoflam Stainless Steel Wok – courtesy of Nespray
Nespray had a promotion in January 2018 which saw us spending $196 on Nestle products to received both of the above. I had no issues doing so, these are products I buy anyway – Decaf Nescafe Gold and Nespray Full Cream Milk. In addition to that, Nespray Full Cream Milk was having a discounted price to buy 2 packs and receive 1 pack free promotion as well at about $23 for 3x600g packs, usual price for 1x600g pack is $12; 1×1.8kg is $35. So double promotion and the expiry date is well within our consumption capability!
I sold the Air Fryer for $35 and the Neoflam Wok for $25 (this was cheap for the convenience of selling it to a colleague and not having to carry it back from office to home).
Made a decent $60 all in all. Love it!
Philips Hairdryer
Usually, I do almost all my shopping on Redmart and do not frequent Fairprice. I let the fresh vegetable purchases in Fairprice to be handled by Mr.C. One fateful weekend, we went as a family and that turned out to be a good stroke of luck as a Loreal promotion caught my eye. 2 bottles of Loreal 700ml shampoo being sold at $21 and with a free Philips Hairdryer. The cost of the shampoo, per bottle, is already $13.90 so getting two bottles at $21 is a good deal. Throw in a free hair dryer and this has just become a fantastic deal!
This again is money I would have spent anyway as it is the brand of shampoo I am using! Snapped up 3 boxes and subsequently sold the 3 hair dryers in the space of 5 days at $20 each.
Once again, $60 made or 2018’s shampoo cost for me is almost free 🙂
BLUM Orgaline Cutlery
We received 2 sets of this high end cutlery organizer which retails for about $80 each, thereabouts. We do not need such fancy-schmancy cutlery organizers in household, declared the Queen of house and that too something tucked in a drawer that is out of sight, without adding significant value to our lives. We are all for paying for quality where it matters and here, we sat on it for a bit and tried hard however failed to see the value in having this in our household. It proved hard to sell at a higher price and I wanted the space in the condo back so I did a quick deal to sell both for $75.
What are we using instead? Something functional and cost us less than a pack of chips.
Hello, $75!
Poker Chip Carousel
Sold this for a nice $35 as our childish gambling days are behind us, we use real money now. I kid, I kid. We now have kids and can’t gamble away their college funds. Again I kid. The truth is, we’re busy keeping the household quiet when the kids are asleep to lengthen their down-time and no cards sessions is without a hoot! This was actually a gift and has been rarely used then was chilling around the multiple houses we have moved to over 6 years, collecting dust.
Interesting story here that might resonate with investing which is summed up by the question – what is your holding power? I put this up for sale and was low-balled for it a few times. Some took a downright piss and asked to make a deal at $10. Pfft, no thank you. I’m in no hurry, I’ve holding power baby! When the right deal came I was more than willing to let this beauty go. Are your finances structured so you can hold out for the right price and the right time?
Made a gain of $35!
Along with these note-worthy shenanigans, I’ve made some random $10 transactions selling random stuff here and there in the interest of getting it out of the house. Just on the ones I mentioned above, we had an upside of $230. Individually, these things don’t seem like much but when you add it up, it does become a nice lil sum.
Perspective – what is $230? That’s half half our monthly groceries when it’s just the core family.
Care to get up to some shenanigans? 🙂
Author: Ms.K
Ms.K is everything that Mr.C is, without the natural interest in investing and company financials! The activity planner for the family, the driver of random ideas and soon to be ‘retiring’ in to full time motherhood – Ms.K has no idea what she’s in for but remains super excited!