Secrets of a Craigslist Addict Archives - The Gathered Home https://hmvikaaoqq.onrocket.site/tag/secrets-of-a-craigslist-addict/ A Blog about Finding and Making Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:26:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Gathering Essentials: Furniture Sliders https://thegatheredhome.com/easiest-way-to-move-furniture/ https://thegatheredhome.com/easiest-way-to-move-furniture/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:17:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/?p=6382 You guys, my “Gathering Essential” today just might be THE BEST KEPT SECRET EVER: The easiest way to move furniture by yourself. I mean, I’m assuming it’s an extremely well kept secret… Because no one ever told me about it before, which leads me to believe you might not have known about it… And if you... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/easiest-way-to-move-furniture/feed/ 8 Gathering Essentials: Transportation https://thegatheredhome.com/how-to-transport-vintage-finds/ https://thegatheredhome.com/how-to-transport-vintage-finds/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:00:43 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/?p=6001 I recently shared all of my best Craigslist shopping secrets here on the blog. I tried to be as detailed as possible, and if the number of animated gifs I used is any indication, I think I was pretty successful at creating a comprehensive guide to buying vintage furniture on Craigslist! >> Read it here! << However,... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/how-to-transport-vintage-finds/feed/ 13 Secrets of A Craigslist Addict: Buying on Craigslist https://thegatheredhome.com/guide-to-vintage-shopping-on-craigslist/ https://thegatheredhome.com/guide-to-vintage-shopping-on-craigslist/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:00:21 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/?p=5997 It’s no secret that I’m a fan of what I consider to be one of the greatest websites in the history of the Internet… Hint: it’s not Facebook. There’s basically a 50/50 chance, when you’re looking at any item in my home, that the answer to, “Where did you find that?” is going to be... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/guide-to-vintage-shopping-on-craigslist/feed/ 10 Craigslist Survival Guide: Top 10 Craigslist Essentials https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-survival-guide/ https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-survival-guide/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:00:32 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/?p=2734 As I mentioned last week, with summer comes a renewed focus on buying and selling vintage furniture here in the Delerson household. In the past several years, we have bought and/or sold at least 100 pieces on the Dallas Craigslist, and during the associated hundreds of hours of lifting, loading, hauling, cleaning, fixing and restoring, we’ve learned a few things... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-survival-guide/feed/ 23 Secrets of a Craigslist Addict: The 2nd Rule of Craigslist https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-2nd-rule/ https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-2nd-rule/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:00:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-2nd-rule/ This post is part of my Secrets of a Craigslist Addict series on Craigslist shopping tips and tricks. Be sure to check out the other posts in the series here: Part 1 – Keywords, Part 2 – Acquisition, How to Avoid Common Craigslist Scams, and The 1st Rule of Craigslist. Do you guys remember the... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-2nd-rule/feed/ 10 Secrets of a Craigslist Addict: The 1st Rule of Craigslist https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-1st-rule/ https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-1st-rule/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-1st-rule/ Be sure to check out my other Secrets of a Craigslist Addict posts – Part 1: Keywords, Part 2: Acquisition, How to Avoid Common Craigslist Scams! The first rule of Craigslist has nothing to do with the inability to talk about Craigslist. (Although Craigslist would be immeasurably better if young-Brad-Pitt were involved… that’s all I have... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/secrets-of-craigslist-addict-1st-rule/feed/ 8 Craigslist Scams: The Obvious and Not-So-Obvious https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-scams-obvious-and-not-so/ https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-scams-obvious-and-not-so/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:12:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-scams-obvious-and-not-so/ This post is part of my “Secrets of a Craigslist Addict” series on Craigslist shopping and selling – read my other posts on savvy Craigslist shopping here and here. One sunny (let’s assume) day last October, I received this email in response to one of my Craigslist postings: Hello, I received your initial email stating... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/craigslist-scams-obvious-and-not-so/feed/ 9 Quick & Easy Posting Photo Editing https://thegatheredhome.com/quick-easy-posting-photo-editing/ https://thegatheredhome.com/quick-easy-posting-photo-editing/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:13:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/quick-easy-posting-photo-editing/ I’m not a stellar photographer… I’m working on it, trying to learn, reading up on scary [to me] stuff like aperture, f-stops, shutter speeds, etc.,but when I’m photographing furniture I stick with the easy stuff – auto mode, or aperture priority, mostly.  My straight out of camera shots (SOOC is the lingo the pros like... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/quick-easy-posting-photo-editing/feed/ 0 Secrets of a Craigslist Addict, Part 2: Acquisition https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-2-acquisition/ https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-2-acquisition/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:34:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-2-acquisition/ If you missed Part 1, a tongue-in-cheek guide to finding the good stuff on Craigslist, catch up on it here. Now that we’ve discussed some tips and tricks for locating the absolutely awesomest vintage stuff Craigslist has to offer, it’s time to move on to the topic of acquisition. So you’ve found a promising looking... [Read More]

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]]> https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-2-acquisition/feed/ 3 Secrets of a Craigslist Addict, Part 1: Keywords https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-1-keywords/ https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-1-keywords/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:40:00 +0000 https://thegatheredhome.com/shopping-list-part-1-keywords/ Prologue: …Be it known henceforth that we the people are too cool to say “Craigslist” anymore, so from this moment onward we shall refer to Craig’s sacred memoranda as “The List”.  We will dumbfound mere mortals with our insider lingo as we patter our patois (cant, argot, vernacular, jargon) to one another using catch phrases... [Read More]

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