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In order to downsize as much as possible prior to the end of the move, I’ve been posting as much stuff on Craigslist as I can. While this is an amazing tool, it is also greatly frustrating. I’m always amazed that people seem to fall into categories and are really pretty predictable. You can often tell from the start what you are looking at. I’ve found that one thing that filters people is to allow email questions only. For some reason that is hard for an “email guy” to understand, typing an email seems quite a lot more difficult than picking up the phone, thus pre-weeding those who call about everything that is even remotely interesting to them or possibly a neighbor, friend, long-lost cousin, or co-worker.
Computer engineer turned full time farmer, grazier, builder, permaculturist and volunteer fire fighter. We left corporate America to live a simple, self-sufficient life in the Ozarks. Read more
