A couple of weeks ago we went to IKEA to pick up some light bulbs for some of our lamps. I was a little surprised to find out that IKEA had started charging a nickel apiece for plastic bags. We don’t go to IKEA often, and the bag charge had been around for a couple … Read more
A friend at work has a bone to pick with some eBay sellers who charge excessive amounts for shipping. It really ticks him off when he gets charged $14.99 shipping for a $9.99 item, and finds out that the shipping only cost $1.85. It doesn’t matter if the item was a great deal at $24.98 … Read more
The John Adams Presidential $1 coins are out and about. And numismatic entrepreneurs are ready and willing to cash in on them. The Washington $1 coins generated a lot of interest because of their novelty and because there were some pretty high-profile errors that came out of the first design in this brand-new coin series. … Read more
Someone get that dead president a hanky! If one searches nose booger on eBay — not that I actually did this before I found the coin! — two auctions currently come up. One of them is an auction for a 2007 John Adams error coin that has some alleged deficiency around Mr. Adams’ right nostril … Read more
I got some Forever Stamps a couple of days ago. One sheet: enough to mail twenty letters to my twenty favorite organizations awaiting payment for services rendered or taxes assessed. Why, oh why, did this guy buy $8,000 worth of Forever Stamps? Flexo suspected that it might be because he didn’t want to stand in … Read more
Patrick over at Cash Money Life was kind enough to point me toward this MoneyCentral article: Garage sales thrive in online world This is an excellent article. If you haven’t read it, go ahead. I’ll wait. 😉 Discussed within the article are: fantastic garage sale finds methods of advertising your sale methods of finding other … Read more
We went to a big outlet mall near where we live after church today. My wife was shopping for quilting fabric and I was going around the mall with my daughter. One of the center kiosks had used DVDs for sale. The three prices for the DVDs were $8.50, $5.00, and $3.00, from most recent … Read more
I was glad to see Jim’s article on using eBay for pricing information. This was a topic I posted on a really long time ago — back before this site was even a blog! — and it’s still excellent advice. Some points to add emphasis to what was already in the articles: So yes — … Read more