Craiglist strikes again

I love Craigslist.com and am about to go on and on in an unabashed plug for them. If you have never used Craigslist, it is like an online garage sale, except without all the driving around, looking for the signs stapled to poles at major intersections with words too small to read, so you have to do a U-turn to read the sign again, and in the process almost crash your car, only to learn that the sign was for a sale two Saturdays ago, not that day.

Also, you can sit at your computer and do a search for 10 minutes for what you want, rather than driving around for hours, sifting through other people's junk to see if it is your new treasure.

Even with craigslist, I still love going to garage sales but even more I love the concept of the garage sale! I learned at an early age how to Garage Sale from my Grandmother who would go out every Saturday and drive all over town with a list of places to go. If I ever saw a fun toy or gaudy piece of jewelry, Grandma would bargain and purchase it for me for fifty cents.

But I digress, back to Craigslist. I have only used it a few times, all with great success. I sold my table and chair set, along with some odds and ends in the garage, and DG sold some lambs wool seat covers. We have also used it to find someone to Rota till our garden last year, and this year to find our photographer, and purchase an air filter for our home. Most recently we have been searching for tables and chairs for the back yard to host a dinner party. I managed to score 5' and 6' folding tables and yesterday I got a card table and 2 chairs for free. Originally I was going to pay $10 for them, but when we drove all the way to Boulder to get them, the guy was not home. We stayed and ate lunch waiting to see if he called. He felt so bad that he missed us that he gave them to us for free! This is very exciting as we are having 40-50 people at our house for dinner, and only have chairs for about 15 right now. I've shopped online and in all the cheap stores including Kmart and Target, and the average folding chair is $20. *ouch* So we will beg, borrow, and otherwise steal from our friends, and continue to search online.