Oh, the power of Craigslist.
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| dun dun dunnnn... |
Over the years, I personally can attest to the convenient wonder that is Craigslist. Buying and selling online was never really my thing; throughout high school, many people I knew used Ebay. One guy I dated in HS bought a car off Ebay, and traveled something like 6 states away to go
look at it before he bought it. I remained skeptical to the whole idea of committing myself purchase whatever it was, from some random person. I mean c'mon, I'm a 90's kid, and if you want to gauge our range of adaptation, think about this:
Kids born in the 80's are probably the last generation of kids whose baby pictures weren't taken on cell phones.
Mind blown with that one, a bit.. mine at least.
Anyway, I hit college in the
"big city" of Cincinnati, and was introduced to all kinds of things, including Craigslist: An online community of buyers, seller, renters, wanters, givers and takers who were all...
local? So I could drive 15 minutes to a mall to meet someone selling an ipod, rather than blindly buying it online and risk being severely disappointed? Sign me up.
Everyone's a newb at some point.
I started relying on Craigslist for my first point of search whenever I'd decided I needed a bigger-ticket item. There are of course horror stories from both buyers
and sellers on Craigslist, so I am still to this day grateful to have been fortunate and fruitful after my repeated usage...
I found a
roommate on Craigslist. She turned out to be awesome, and we're still friends today.
She and I found our
apartment on Craigslist [it only seemed fitting...].
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| with trisha! 2008 & 2014 |
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| stella bella! |
I bought a
car off Craigslist. Sure, the fuel pump had a seizure and died just a couple weeks in, but reading up on Saabs after that, I realized that was probably imminent, and went on with life.
The next several places in which I lived were also from Craigslist, along with countless other random things: appliances, a snowboard or two, skiis, cell phones, laptops, cameras, camping equipment, etc.
I even had a few pets over the years who came off CL. My little rescue love Stella is herself a CL ad, answered by moi.
I counted myself a Craigslist aficionado.
And then I met
Rob. No, I didn't meet him on CL, haha..
Where I thought I was a guru at positioning myself on Craigslist, Rob blew me out of the water: Cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, rental houses and a
lot more than I would've probably ever felt comfortable dealing with over Craigs. Sure, people buy/sell/trade things all the time; what Rob does that I don't get is to
somehow manage to squeeze
every. single. penny either into or out of whatever it is. I love it!
Today was one of those bittersweet days. We said goodbye to the big red lug of a boat that Rob bought around this time last year. Rob decided to list it a couple of months back, but was biding his time waiting on the perfect bid.
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| hitching it up to its new owner :( |
Of course, it always helps to remember that bidding farewell to one just means that we're now in full-fledged quest for the next one..
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| whoa.. haha |
Rob's madly scouring Craigslist
again now, with his eyes set on a couple of potentials. One of them is in MO, where we'll be this weekend.
Oh! I also almost forgot to mention - CONGRATS to my team at work! We've broken even, just after a year! That's a
HUGE accomplishment for a new office, and I couldn't be more proud to have been a part of that effort. It's the up-&-up from here! :D
We of course celebrated with lunch, which was decidedly at Trio Bistro in Kenwood. I felt like I'd been there once before, but I still can't put my finger on when, or with whom. Either way, the food was delicious and it was great to have all of us together to celebrate such a cool achievement!
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| thai flatbread |
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| proscuitto flatbread |
Yum! Congrats again to my awesome team. We're pretty awesome, in my books :)
I think this is gonna be a good week!
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