It's time to whip out the old Sell-O-Meter!

I have a tendency to forget things every now and then (usually more NOW than then) and unfortunately my Fun Fund is usually the first to fall through these mental cracks.

So in honor of it, I am starting a page where I detail all of the items I've sold in order to keep the juice flowing and full of life.

If I have a place where I can see all of my success, then it'll be THAT much easier for me to carry on and keep doing my thang! For those of you unfamiliar w/ this "Fun Fund", think of it as some sort of Rainy-Day Fund. It's basically an allocated place to hold all side monies earned; to be spent on anything my heart desires, no questions asked.

It's not so much the items on the list, though, that's important, but rather the main concept behind it - Motivation.

In the frugal world we've create around us, you can imagine the importance of such a thing! It's the one "safe" place where we can let loose and do as we please. But where does this money come from? Well, that's the creative part my friends :)

I go around the house looking for things to sell! I wrote a detailed post on how i do this a while back, but that's really the jist of it. I look for things that i don't ever use, or even want anymore, and I sell them on Craigslist or eBay. I then take all proceeds and throw it into the pot! (anything that doesn't sell goes straight to our local Salvation Army)

And so far i've done a helluva job spending it :) But isn't that the point? I've picked up kayaks, artwork supplies, kitchen tables, dryers, and loads of other stuff - mainly from the Craigslists and such! haha.... it's all about that "treasure" out there.

To keep up the motivation, here is my master list of all things purged Since July, 2007 - Grand Total and all:

• 1993 Cadillac DeVille (w/ dead break system) - $600.00
• My lot of 32 used (and old) CD's - $20.00
• Abercrombie & Fitch denim jacket - $45.00
• GAP corduroy jacket - $20.00
• Puma track jacket - $20.00
• Etonic track jacket - $6.00 (*tear*)
• "Tiki" picture frame - $2.00
• All-in-one Brother printer (ink-less) - $20.00
• Adidas track pants - $5.00
• "Cuba" track jacket - $4.00 (sucky)
• 50+ LP records - $30.00
• Masonic Nights Templar sword - $45.00 (holler)
• Sammy Sosa baseball jersey - $4.00
• Funky ugly gag gift - $1.00 (ROCK!)
• Express sports jacket - $25.00
• Antique looking wooden desk - $45.00
• Semi-new running shoes - $15.00
  
• Grand Total: $892.00 $907.00

My goal is to keep it updated as time goes by, so hopefully I stick with it! And why not create a similar list yourself? It'll take a few minutes to put together, but then all you have to do is add to it every now and then. Hopefully it'll remind you how good it felt to rid your house of nonsense too ;)

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Our house likes to eat up our Dryers.

So we are having some pretty bad luck w/ dryers lately. I don't know what it is, but we're now onto our THIRD one since we moved in last year! I know they don't last forever, but man hook a brother up for at least an entire year, ya know?

Here's a quick synopsis of our pain so far:

1st dryer - inherited when purchased house. seemed normal, until it started taking longer...and longer...and longer to dry. we replaced w/ sister's dryer after she picked up brand new ones. (yay for free!)

Sister's dryer - worked perfectly for a good 6 months or so. then all of a sudden started making this horribly awful screeching noise as it dried. it was so bad you could hear it on the 3rd floor! This is even w/ our doors closes and it being in our basement. i'm sure our neighbors love us.

And now we're onto our 3rd dryer. This part could get me REAL fired up, so i'll try and get through it quickly before i start slamming these keyboard keys....after many weeks of failed Craigslist searching, we decided to use our home warranty again and pay the $100 to have someone come out and fix it. I mean, it REALLY dries well, it's just the awful noise that comes out of it.

We got the standard, "we'll have someone out there between 4-7" and roll with it. And although the company they source out to looks pretty damn sketchy (took me 6 calls to get a live person, their voicemail isn't set up, and their website is shoddy), they were willing to come out on a saturday!

Sooo...off we go:

• we rush home after Mrs. Budgetsaresexy's wedding shower, to hurry up and get it done, so we can go back and hang out with her nephews up from NC.
• 4 rolls by - nothing.
• 5 rolls by - nothing.
• 5:30 we get a call! "we're on our way, be there in 35-40 mins". Not the best news, but at least they'll be here shortly,and we can run back to have dinner w/ everyone.
• 6 rolls by - nothing
• 7 rolls by - nothing

This goes on, and on, and on...NOTHING! why the F do you call saying your'e on the way, and then NOT show up, NOT call back, and NOT answer your damn phone? I was fired up. I left them a calm, yet very stern message every hour on the dot until 10. And to this day? nothing.

I called back our home warranty people and asked for a new company, but they don't do weekends or evening hours. we were stuck. And then, as if a flash of light appeared through the clouds and the Almighty one himself looked down upon us, we catch a HUGE break on Craigslist!

A perfectly working dryer for only $45! I call this one the "Richie Rich" dryer, as the place we picked it up last night was fairly richie rich, and the thing looks brand freakin' new. Mrs. Richie Rich had just replaced her set with some new super duper futuristic ones, and couldn't get herself to haul it way. Fine by me!

So now we have our third dryer in less than a year. And i swear, if this one doesn't last at LEAST 6 months, i will consider washing everything by hand. i mean it, don't tempt me! ....haha...nah, that's a bit extreme. plus i'm too lazy :) but i WILL blog about it! so take that.

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