You Suck at Craigslist

Category: furniture

  • YSaC, Vol. CXCVII

    Variations on a(n unfortunately) recurring theme:

    Urinary leg bag

    Hey I know this is really strange but….I had surgery last week and had a catheter….they sent me home with a Leg Bag that I NEVER used…it has been opened but not used…I have the bag and leg straps if anyone needs or is interested.
    I know its wierd but I hate to throw away if someone really needs this.

    You know, I’m all for “reduce, reuse, recycle” … but some things just are not meant to be recycled, even if they haven’t been used. This just might be one of them. (Sent in by Leslie.)

    But wait, there’s more! (Of course there is.)

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  • YSaC, Vol. CLXXXVII

    Sometimes ads aren’t written quite as well as they could (or should) be. I’ll reserve my rant about the decline of literacy in the US, and instead present you with a couple of case studies. See if you can identify the problems in these posts. You’ll have to look carefully — they’re subtle.*

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  • YSaC, Vol. CLXXIX

    Are You Ashamed Of The Lack Of Dressers In Your House

    It is a very frustrating experience staring at those empty spaces in the main rooms of your house, clothes scattered all across the floor, and your closets just as messy; your rooms are just perpetual messes that never seem to get in order, no matter how much time and effort you spend cleaning them. What is the result of this frustrating process? Your overall well-being suffers and you find yourself making little problems into much larger difficulties. These little things that we are exposed to each day are the triggers for negative snowballs in our lives. Studies have proven that not having the necessary little things to complement our lifestyles are what give rise to bigger problems and the big problems are never really the cause. All the while, you are confused as to how you got yourself into such a knot. Coupled with the constant reminder, “Money can’t buy happiness,” mantra, causing you to think that saving your money will help your problems. The truth is that money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the convenience to allow happiness in the door, such as buying the things you do need. Don’t let the little things build to something much worse. Your home is your sanctuary and you need certain things to make it so. You are fooling yourself to think otherwise.

    [Editorial comment: There’s more — much more — below the cut. Please read the lengths this person is willing to go to in order to sell two dressers. (And they’re not even French Prudential dressers!)]

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  • YSaC, Vol. CXLIX (no, really, that’s what 149 is!)

    ELEGANT FURNITURE 🙂 MUST SEE – $550

    MOVING SALE, BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE EXCELENT NEW CONDITION.

    LIVING ROOM SET $450.00 OBO
    DINNING ROOM SET INCLUDES 4 CHAIRS AND 2 BAR STOOLS $600.00 OBO

    CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, SERIOUS INQUIRES PLEASE. THANKS

    This one has it all … misspellings (including my beloved “dinning” room!), a price in the title that doesn’t correspond to anything in the listing … and for a bonus, a random baby picture in the listing. (Maybe the baby is actually going for $550?)

    And don’t get me started on the “beautiful” and “elegant” descriptors applied to the furniture. The people who buy those kinds of sofas are also the ones who worry about whether the art on their walls matches the sofas and the carpet, and then the whole room ends up very, very beige. These photos are Exhibit A. There isn’t a single real color in there. That poor child is going to grow up thinking that he’s profoundly colorblind.

    That’s not beautiful OR elegant. It makes me want to run amok armed with paint rollers in multiple bright, saturated colors.

    In the meantime, folks, don’t sell your baby on Craigslist, mmmkay?

  • YSaC, Vol. CXLVIII

    living room

    sofa- solid construction-has been re-webbed. cusions are down filled
    upholstered arm chair. very solid construction. needs to be re-upholstered xxx-xxx-xxxx

    “Needs to be re-upholstered”? Ya think? That might be a bit of an understatement. I probably would have gone with “needs to be saturated with lighter fluid and burned in a sacrifice to the gods of avocado green”. (The carpet, too.)

    Submitted by Allison — thanks!

  • YSaC, Vol. CXLII

    White dresser 9 drawer french prudential – $110

    White French prudential dresser with 9 drawers. Really beautiful piece of furniture, goes well with everything. Its in fine condition, very well maintained. Take advantage of this marvelous deal, no where else can you take home such a lovely piece for just $110. This is a great price for this item. Hurry before this sell. [advertising stuff for business cut]

    Now even furniture stores on the West coast are doing it!

    Goes well with everything? You mean, it goes well with the other furniture that people have listed under a furniture style that doesn’t exist?