Comment: My mission was to set foot in not a single shop for this year's Christmas buying. Instead I hit the buy-and-sell sites, saved thousands and was rewarded with plenty of goodwill | Jess_Irvine
on the car radio as I pull into the suburban street I’ve driven half an hour to find.
Turns out, the fake turf was gifted to my seller as offcuts from a commercial job he worked on recently. It’s usually $25 a metre at Bunnings. I’ve saved myself about $400 to spruce up the outdoor area of my new home.On an earlier raid that day, I handed over $15 to a friendly young couple who helped me to load an outdoor wooden folding table and two directors' chairs into my mini-SUV. They reckon they paid about $120 for the set a few years ago.
My second-hand Christmas shopping spree started only a little over two weeks ago, and slowly, at first, when I moved into my first home purchase.A friend recommended getting rid of my moving boxes by posting them on Facebook Marketplace, which I’d never used before.
Safely ensconced in my own new digs, I began looking around me for things I would need to make it feel like home. But instead of hitting the shops, I returned to Facebook Marketplace. A quick search yielded the first thing on my list: a new bed frame. For FREE.
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