ith the holidays just a the cash. Take good quality
few short months away, digital photos of your item, and
now is the time to try to make sure your description covers
get extra cash to spend on your everything. If your items are
friends, family and maybe even quite large, and too expensive to
youself. You'll hear all over the ship, offer a "pick up only"
news to try and NOT use your option, to lure those in your
credit cards, as interest rates area to bid on your item. Be
will kill you later. It can be so realistic about the price as
hard to decide how much to spend well. If you start the bid too
on people, and what you can high, you may end up getting no
afford without going broke doing bids at all. Many times a lower
it. So what can you do, in order starting bid will start a bidding
to make that extra money you may war in the end between people who
need for the holidays? Follow our have gotten the "auction itch"
tips below to help you find that and now want your item regardless
"hidden" cash that you can use of the price. When I sell on
now to make your holidays merry eBay, I prefer buyers who either
and bright. send me a money order, or PayPal
1. Clean out your house - Look only. It gives you better options
around your house/garage. Do you in the end.
have anything you don't use
2. Organize a neighborhood
anymore, doesn't fit, given as a yard sale - Get you and your
gift but you didn't want it to neighbors together to have a
begin with? Sell it on eBay. Take commuinty yard sale. Advertise in
your item, do a search on eBay the paper for either free, or
and see what similiar items are cheaply, and then more people are
going for now. You can do a short likley to come if they see that
3 day sale, or a 7 day sale, there are multiple families
depending on how quickly you need participating as compared to just
one. Make it worth their while. jobs - if you have the time,
Have coffee and donuts available perhaps only on the weekend, see
for the early birds. If they want if local stores are offering
to talk you down, bargain with seasonal jobs that would give you
them. Remember - you are trying extra spending money. Even better
to make extra cash so every would be an employee discount,
little bit counts. where you could use your extra
3. Cut out buying coffee/lunch cash for gitf buying.
for a month - If you like to have
There are many other ways for
that $4.00 cafe latte every you to come up with extra
morning, and lunch at the local spending money for the holidays.
spot, try bringing it from home Don't let the credit card
for a month, and see how much you companies lure you into thinking
can save. Put the money you that you can spend up to your
would've spent that week in a limit. You can easily and
jar. By the end of the month you creatively have a great holiday
could have anywhere between $80 - season without breaking the bank.
200 dollars at the end of the Good luck to you all!
month, depending on how much you
were spending.
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About the Author:
S.W. Chadwick has been working in online businesses since 2000. She has written dozens of articles regarding entrepreneurial pursuits and online businesses. To learn more about working from home, please visit http://www.dowhatyouloveandmakemoney.com Copyright 2006, S.W. Chadwick, All Rights Resererved
