I’ve been wondering if maybe my Daily Dollar Diary shouldn’t also income. What do you think?

The reason I’ve come to ponder the issue is that I’ve actually had a few dollars float my way in the past few weeks. I’ve finally gotten off my duff and listed a few things on Craigslist. I’ve even broken my more-than-a-year boycott of eBay and started listing some of The Son’s outgrown clothes.

Today I sold a pair of wooden play stands for $125 but I’m passing all of that money on to my mother who’s the one who gave us the stands for our children about 14 years ago. I figured, given her terminal state of desperate overspending and depressing debt, that she should have any cash that that particular sale brought in.

Last week I sold The Son’s old 1/2 size cello. We took a huge loss on that one but did recoup $325 in cash. And I sold The Daughter’s no-longer-played full-size violin and the brand new case she only used 1/2 dozen times before giving up her violin “career.” Again, an overall loss if you added up what we’d paid in rental fees and the case we purchased new, but still we recouped $400.

And a few weeks ago I sold the old glider rocker in which I’d spent so many hundreds of hours sitting and rocking and nursing those two little monsters. I think I got about $150 for that.

I still have an old carpet steam cleaner and a tow-hitch mounted bike rack to list on Craigslist as soon as I get a chance. I need to concentrate on the clothing listings on eBay first.

I’ve been thinking about holding a garage sale for years but for me the cons by far outweigh the pros. Garage sales are a ton of work and require the sale-holder to be organized and have a place in which they can store all of the to-be-sold stuff during preparation. These space and organization requirements are way beyond me.

As it is, the discipline to put together a batch of clothing auctions within the space of a week (my goal) is taxing my time, energy, and organization skills almost beyond capacity.

Costco — $2.79
A slice of pizza and a soda for The Son for dinner.

Costco — $74.24
A case of Hansen natural soda (a decadent, I-shouldn’t-be-shopping-this-late-when-I’m-this-tired purchase), a gross of Bounty paper towels, Taster’s Choice coffee for The Husband, a sack of Mini Babybell cheeses, a case of Capri 100% Juice “boxes”, huge box of Goldfish snack crackers, and a case of Horizon Chocolate Milk [see this post].
I applied a $7.43 cash card credit I’d just received for returning the pair of Speedo swim trunks I’d purchased for The Son; he rejected them.

Costco — $50.34
Filled up the SAV (Suburban Assault Vehicle); 18.790 gallons @ 2.679/gallon; mileage reads 114021

Kroger — $10.75
Playtex tampons for The Daughter; new Oral B toothbrush for myself (compact head, soft bristles).