I love Amazon.com. They have so many great specialty items and I almost always find the lowest prices there when it comes to home goods. I was also vaguely aware that they offer a trade-in service, but never thought seriously about taking advantage of it. Well, thank goodness RM did! He told me a few days ago that he had some old textbooks and he had looked into trading them in on Amazon. It turns out that they pay for the shipping (you just print a shipping label and slap it on the box you're shipping the books in), so it's easy And profitable! For the cost of a piece of paper to print the shipping label on, and the short drive to our post office, we got $130 credit for our (mostly RM's) old textbooks! I've had a "Garden & Home" wishlist of things that I'd like to have around the house for a while, and I was able to seriously stretch that $130. As RM put it, "it's a good way to alchemize stuff you don't need into stuff you do need."
Just to be clear, Amazon.com is Not paying me or offering any type of incentive for me to write this. They haven't had any contact with me at all, for that matter, outside of shipping confirmations and such as is standard/expected from purchases, returns, and exchanges as a customer. And there's no reason you have to go through Amazon; lots of used book stores will give you good credit for your used books that you can use towards new ones, ebay is pretty simple to use too, or you can always have a good old fashioned yard sale to get cash for your stuff that would otherwise sit around collecting dust. I just wanted to share this little experience because it brought so many other possibilities to mind, and allowed us to get many items that will help us save even more money in our efforts to cut expenses and become more self-sufficient!
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