MAKE AN OFFERUP YOU CAN’T REFUSE

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With a growing pile of ‘treasure’ don’t give up, OfferUp.

If you have storage space, you probably have stuff in there.

Maybe the stuff is in there to keep it out of sight.

Like the bike that reminds you of another time in your life, a time when someone you cared about had the same bike, and you keep it as a reminder of the bullet you dodged.

Or the mirror frame you made out of special wood you can’t look at anymore.

Keeping memorial stuff out of sight works until you find something else to replace it. If you keep it all, you may be a hoarder, memories of not.

Who hasn’t asked someone about their stuff and got a long winded reply that sounds like a politicians stump-speak.

“So glad you asked about that bike. I rode it into the ground after breaking up with a true love who rode the same bike. We rode together. Now she rides with someone else, and all I’ve got is the frame and a seat post with no seat.”

So sad, but also true. Don’t be that sad sack. Offerup instead.

The connections to things is real. How else can you explain why you have the things you own? You like your stuff.

You keep your things until you have too much, then it’s time to thin the collection.

The museum way is a classification system from best to worst. C1 is the top. C2 is good but out of the study area. C3 is the ‘study’ collection where you take things apart to see how they work.

If you use Offerup, you only need two categories: Everything that stays and everything that goes.

Once you make a decision on what stays and what goes, tag and bag.

The OfferUp Solution.

Most collectors don’t sell. They create more storage to avoid anything slipping out of their grip.

Now is the time to change the dynamic. Here’s how:

1. Download the offerup app.

2. Give yourself an offerup name, password, and zip code.

3. Take a picture of something to sell, describe it, price it, and load it on offerup.

This is the moment of no return. Do you really want to part with your treasure? Is it a treasure or a space eater?

Bite the bullet and separate your stuff into keepers and movers, and get moving.

Eventually you’ll hear a voice in your head saying, “I’ve made more money than I thought my stuff was worth. Why was I taking it to Goodwill all those years?”

Another offerup hurdle is pricing. If you desire to sell something, give a selling price. Your $800 chair won’t bring $800 unless you’ve got a picture of George Washington sitting in it.

If you’ve got that chair it’s worth more than $800 for a ‘George Washington sat here’ artifact.

Price your stuff above market value and it’s not going anywhere. Hoarders know this all too well. Their stuff has added-value most people can’t understand.

How can you tell if you’re a good fit on offerup? If you rent mini-storage space you haven’t visited in two years; have a three car garage with no room for a car; have multiple crawl space storage jammed to the rafters.

I just looked into a space and lost count of gym bags, backpacks, briefcases, suitcases, and purses.

You never know when you’ll need one, right? Wrong.

Do you have a tool box with huge industrial wrenches you’ll never use? Rugs wrapped in plastic laying along shelves? Three car stereos in the original boxes?

A positive answer to any of those questions is a yes to OfferUp.

It’s time to make yourself an offerup you can’t refuse.