Craig's List Experiment

I already mentioned that I've recently moved into a new house. With that usually comes a series of extra expense like new furniture, new window coverings, landscaping and a variety of other little things. The biggest issue that I have right now is that I moved into a smaller place than I used to have and fitting my old furniture into the new space is problematic. (...and yes, downsizing is a GREAT way to prepare for retirement.)

With this challenge in mind, I'm going to try something that I'm not sure will be successful, but it sure will be interesting. My goal is to sell all of my current furniture on Craig's List in order to entirely fund new furniture for the new place. To give myself a little bit of leeway, I'll agree to spend up to 25% more of what I sell the current stuff for to help fund the new stuff. (ie. if the current stuff sells for $1000, i'll spend up to $1250 for the new stuff.) That seems somewhat reasonable.

To answer the question about why I would downsize my house only to buy all new furniture, let me offer the following: The new place is considerably smaller and some of the furniture doesn't even fit through the door! Other pieces of furniture are ok, but they take up way too much space. And again, the goal is to try to fund the new stuff by selling the old stuff. Lets see how we do. Ok, Craig's List, here I come...