ROFL at the stripper stage. My friends Dad used to make the chair ironing boards to sell. "Hmm, no Nabors - as in Jim (Gomer Pyle)?" Funny you caught my eye on this one thinking........... How did you know my name? Cause it is Pyle. And No no relation. Hate to even admit it. My Father has a buffalo head in his den. That thing is HUGE. :^( Chris.

Made a CL purchase yesterday for my daughter. She has been wanting one of those jewelry boxes on a stand. Personally, I don't care for them, but she does. I could not see paying the $100 - $300 that I have seen them listed for in stores. So, when I saw one listed for $35 I jumped on it. This is what I did to make sure the exchange would be safe for me, and then I will post what the seller did that I think was dangerous. #1 - Emailed the seller. When she emailed back, her name was listed on the email address, so I looked up the street address. I was not familiar with the area and knew it was in the country (well, so am I to an extent.) When I did a MapQuest, I realized that seller lived not too far from my back door (about a 15 minute leisurely and beautiful drive through the countryside.) #2 - Called my daughter and asked her to go with me. She didn't know what I was going after, and begrudgedly said she would go because it was mothers day. ;-) She was quite surprised when she found out I was buying something for her which I told her on the way. #3 - Called buyer (she had previously given me her number to call when I was on my way. Had cash in hand. #4 - When we arrived, I found a nice well manicure lawn and home. My daughter stayed in the car, while I went to the door. from there, it was kind of crazy on the sellers part. OK, what the seller did wrong. #1 - When we arrived, the garage door was opened, and also the front door was ajar. I chose the front door, since I didn't want to be rummaging around someones garage looking for a door to knock on. #2 - The seller answered the door quickly, and when I identified myself, she said this way, and turned her back. I followed her into the kitchen, and then she suddenly turned around and headed into me, before going back out into a hallway. Turns out she had only gone in the kitchen to throw something away. lol I was right on her heels, and I think scared her! #3 - Seller has me follow her down to a finished basement where her kids are playing. I speak, and continue to follow the seller through a room, and then back out into the garage. WHAT? #4 - Seller then heads into a storage room, with me staying behind the door. She pulls out the jewelry armoire for me to inspect in a dark garage. it looks fine, and I hand her the money and carry it out to my daughter. I thought the seller, knowing that we were on our way, would have had the item ready and waiting. There was no need for me to have to go through her house. Also, when we got home, we inspected the piece better and found the drawers to be a little dirty (lint, etc.) and the outside dusty. It would have taken the seller all of two minutes to dust the outside and vacuum out the drawers. Overall though, it was a good CL experience and never once was I scared. Had it been a man taking me through the house, it would have been a different story. Had I been a male buyer, I hope that the seller would have been more careful.;)

We have our house listed with a real estate and we are also advertising it on Craig's list ourselves. We have an agreement with our realtor that we can sell it ourselves without paying a commission. We have had no one look from the real estate (listed for one month - but not the best time during the holidays) and 6 people who qualify and are seriously interested from Craig's list, ... but all 6 have to sell their homes - one would qualify without selling but they don't want to carry two mortgages even though they have just rented their other home. So there are people looking and if they do sell their homes, we are hoping they will remember our home if it is still available. We had a couple of companies contact us and didn't email them back except one which sounded ligitimate - they were an investment group, we gave them the particulars about our property, but not our financial picture or any personal information and no last name, not what we owed etc. I told them we didn't have to sell but if they were seriously interested to make us a reasonable offer, we never heard back from them. I think more buyers are looking at Craig's list and more sellers are putting their homes there. Definitely put your home on Craig's list and be sure to post the best 4 photos you have of the home, also use flickr or photobucket and have a link to more photos of your home and put the link in the ad. We are looking at Craig's list for when we sell our home and we only look at the ads with photos of the home. Make sure your home stays near the top of the list on craig's list, don't let it go to the next page, most folks don't look any further than the first page of ads. Just cancel the ad and re-up it - but no sooner than every two days. A little house and lots of land, right up my alley, but not in your state - too cold. In 1993 we couldn't seem to sell our home through a real estate (we lived in Arkansas then). We finally decided to sell it ourselves, put an ad in a newspaper of the next closest city to us and sold it. All the real estate agents said we would never sell it (for the price we wanted). We also had a relative set up a website for the home the same week, but when it hit the search engines we had already sold it - one guy called us from the website and was really mad it was already sold - saying "but it just came up on the computer". Thank goodness we were persistent or we'd still be there. You never know who's looking to move where. Good luck.

Before you click the link I have shared, you should be aware that it seems to not be super PG-13...... Do not say I did not warn you. It is hilarious though!!!! Here is a link that might be useful: Not sure this was a boo boo.... Just WEIRD!