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How to Raise Money for Christmas Gifts with Craigslist by Adnan Masood
in Finance (submitted 2009-10-15)
If you are like most Americans, your Christmas shopping this year will be done on a very strict budget. Of course, it is more important to pay your bills and put food on the table, but you don't want to feel like you are shortchanging your friends and family. A good way to prevent this feeling is by raising some extra money for Christmas gifts. You have lots of options, but I encourage you to checkout Craigslist.
There are lots of ways to make money on Craigslist. Just a few of your options include:
Selling Items Around Your Home: Right now, take a look around your house. I bet just in the living room alone you will find a few things that you don't want, need, or use anymore. These may be a stack of movies you no longer watch, a bookcase that is sitting empty, or a chair that leaves the room looking too cluttered. How about you take these items and sell them on Craigslist? By uploading pictures of what you have to sell, providing detailed information, and by setting a fair price, you should make money. This is money you can use at Christmastime.
Selling a Service: When it comes to paid services, you might be surprised what people are willing to pay for. Just locally, you could sell your services as a lawn mower, babysitter, tutor, painter, construction worker, errand runner, and more. If you have a talent that you can sell online, like writing, graphic design, or web design, you can expand your reach. You doing paid projects for someone located across the country! Just like selling a product on Craigslist, you want to provide detailed information about the service you have to offer, a little bit of background information concerning your experience and qualifications, and you want to set a fair rate.
When it comes to selling a service on Craigslist, you have two great options. First, you can list your service in their services offered section. But, people also post in the services or gigs section when they need to hire someone (like a painter), you can find and reply to these positions.
As you can see, it is relatively easy to make some extra cash by using Craigslist.org. The good news is that you can also use Craigslist to buy some cheap Christmas gifts. Not all items sold on the website are used; some are still new-in-the-box. These items may come with a discount off the original retail price, meaning you save money. If you want to increase your options of walking away with cheap Christmas gifts, use a Craigslist search tool, where you can search all of Craigslist.