One of the trappings of modern life is the amount of junk we accumulate. Think of the amount of clothes you have sitting, unworn in your wardrobe or expensive pots and pans which only get brought out of the cupboard once in a blue moon. Are these items enriching your life, are they giving you any pleasure, are they of use to you? No? Then get rid of them, declutter and sell.
Last November I purged many a thing from my life when I went on a decluttering mission and yet somehow I still have a crazy amount of stuff litering my life and bogging me down. Anything I don't use or love is going, going, gone and I'm going to sell most of it in the hope of buying something lovely for Mr Thrifty after he completes The Great North Run (can I get a whoop for Mr Thrifty?) next month.
How many mobile phones have you had in the past decade? I'm not sure I could count the amount I've gone through, I'm a serial mobile phone dropper. And even the ones which have survived falls from my jacket pocket into a pub loo have decided to die a dramatic, long drawn out death after only 6 months. Why do I still hold on to some of them? What I need to do is sell my mobile, get my declutter on, make some money back. What is the point in having those old mobile phones sitting in a drawer (or vintage tin in my case) taking up space and never, ever being used.
I've used the company who are sponsoring this post (before they approached me), Top Dollar Mobile - well Mr Thrifty has, the service was quick, efficient and they paid a fair price for his old mobile phone. The website is easy enough, you can scroll through the mobile phone brands to find your old phone - am I the only person who never knows their mobile number let alone the fancy pants name of the actual device? Then just send it off to them and they pay a short time later. Easy money in my opinion.
Do you have mobiles, junk, CDs, clothes sitting round doing absolutely nothing? Why not sell it on and recoup some cash for doing almost nothing.
In partnership with Top Dollar Mobile.
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P.S. Have you recently sold anything which had been utterly useless to your life?
P.P.S. As always, shop around before buying or selling anything. What I mention on this blog works for me and my family.
I always sell my old phones, clothes and dvds to make a bit of cash :) xo
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Its handy to know that sites like this exist actually - I keep meaning to sell my old mobiles and I could definitely do with the cash...
ReplyDeleteI always sell my old phones when I upgrade and get a new one. It's a great way to both make a bit of cash as well as making sure it doesn't stick around the house being useless! xo
ReplyDeleteI don't often resell old items that are cluttering up space or whatnot. I typically donate them to the local thrift store. I just prefer it even though I could be making some extra money.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be a theme for the week. I cleared out my wardrobe on Monday and now there's all manner of forgotten items flaunting themselves on Ebay. Unfortunately my hubs won't let me near his clothes so there is a growing number of hole-y tee shirts and his cupboards are busting open.
ReplyDeleteThen my weightwatcher meeting last night was also all about decluttering wardrobes and treating yourself to something nice with the proceeds.
Me- I'm planning a spa day on the proceeds of my big de-clutter.
If the phones still work/charge you can trade them in for a good value with car phone warehouse. You can look up the value online an they put it back on a debit card for you within a few days! I've done twice now and made about £100!
ReplyDeleteI had a clothing clear out earlier in the year - only managed to do a small amount and yet raised about £300 and it was mostly on things I would have chucked out. It's so worth doing... I just have the rest to do now! :/ xx
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I never use sites like that, they completely undersell the price! On their it says I could get a maximum of £17.74 for my old phone, yet when I sold it on ebay I got over £40. I recommend selling everything on ebay, and anything that doesn't sell keep for a car boot!
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I had a declutter recently and sold all my gameboy games/gameboys, i haven't played on any of them for at least 4 years!! Made a fair bit of money to fund my summer holidays!
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My old one is worth £1.20 :/
ReplyDeleteI'll be keeping it as a spare in an emergency I think.
Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to sell on my old iphone. I did shop around and managed to get £20 more than the company in your link offered. Between that and a refund of my car tax from the DVLA I'm quid in this week.
ReplyDeleteI think I must have about 7 old mobiles hiding away at home somewhere. Will have to dig them out and look at this! I have loads of rubbish hanging around that I'd love to sell on eBay but I'm a bit hesitant of it as I know absolutely nothing about it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea. I always keep my old phones for 'just in case' purposes but never actually need them! I am in the process of having a massive clear out. I have written a post on clearing out your wardrobe and how us ladies tend to naturally hoard things! It must be in our genes.
ReplyDeleteA great idea and something I need to do. I seriously need to de clutter and make some cash! I'm putting a date in my diary to get on with it!x
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