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Safe Selling

 Desk: available When you sell something on Craigslist (CL), there are things you can do to make your experience safer. Do realize, that most people are just like you. They too want it to be a safe experience. We do these as precautions. We have never felt unsafe while selling, but we also make sure to be smart about it. Here is our Top Ten List: 1. Do not take identifying pictures. Our pictures do not show our house number or our cars. We take our pictures outside because the light shows the items off better. If you take pictures inside, try to make sure other things (like you nice tv, stereo, etc) are not in the picture. 2. Put something in your post that will protect you from phishers or scammers. Put "cash only" as your terms and ask them to leave a phone number or a key word in the email they send you. (If they do not include these things, or offer to wire you money in exchange for you item, you can just delete it.) 3. If you set up an appointment for some

Change

Dresser: $325. Sold. I try to think to myself, how do I follow the post I just wrote? It was full of my heart, while most of my posts attempt to hide my heart at all costs. It is the great wide internet after all. I am an introvert, so I do my best to hide in a crowd as it is. However, there was no hiding what we went through and are still going through. We so often lay in bed at night, clinging to one another as if the other is our last link to life and talk about our daughter. I doubt a full hour goes by throughout the day that we do not think about her. Do I follow the last post with another soul bearing post?I could write forever, probably. Or do I write a post that sheds light on just one little chapter in our hilarious book of sales?  :-) Sometimes it is good to have a change.   It is amazing the people you meet through this part of our business. You never know who will show up at your door or meet you in a parking lot somewhere. (Maybe next time I will