It’s true that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but lets try to be realistic about our “treasures”. Some pointers:

• A scrap of carpet you used to catch oil in your garage for the last 5 years is not considered a “new carpet remnant”, no matter how large or “unique” it is.
• Nobody wants to buy a 15 gallon fish tank that has a “few small leaks” for $55.
• Just because you paid $800 for your treadmill 13 years ago doesn’t mean that it is worth $600 today… especially when it needs a new belt and motor.
• Your ping-pong table is not in “like new condition” when “all it needs” is a replacement table-top.

Try to keep it classy, Craigslist. Please.

I have found and sold some great deals on Craigslist. I have dealt with friendly Craigslist users and ‘users that can only be described as “assbags”…

I saw a washing machine on craigslist the other day. It was a pretty good deal, and I needed a washing machine, so I called the lady to get more details. She was on the road, but said she’d gladly call me back in 20 minutes, when she got home.

Nearly 6 hours later, she still hadn’t returned my call, so I called her back, “Hi, I called earlier about the..” (she cuts me off) “I SAID I’D CALL YOU BACK WHEN I GOT HOME! I AM STILL AT WORK AND I WON’T BE HOME UNTIL LATER TONIGHT!!!” (hangs up phone). Apparently, she didn’t remember telling me that she’d call me back in 20 minutes. Furthermore, apparently she didn’t really want to sell her washing machine. (she never did call me back)

My point is this: if you’re too busy to reply to buyers about the ad that YOU POSTED, maybe you shouldn’t have posted it in the first place. I couldn’t care less if you sell your washing machine or not, and it’s certainly not my fault that you can’t tell time. If you post an ad, it is your responsibility to follow up on it.

So Facebook does the dreading deed of changing their homepage layout. I for one actually enjoy the new layouts, but what I hate the most are the comments about it from all of my friends when I log in. “I hate the new layout.” “This new layout is terrible!” Yadda yadda yadda. By next week, nobody is going to care and the time you spend joining those “Go Back to the Old Layout” groups, will be wasted.

Instead of getting upset over it for 5 minutes, just encourage it and figure it out. I’m pretty sure Facebook doesn’t care.

Alright you guys, say cheese

Why is that tourists are obsessed with taking picures of every single place they go in the city. Being from Chicago, I have the priviledge of enjoying what the city has to offer every day. So call me biased, but I can never explain why people love to take a picture of the Starbucks they orderd from, or the Chipotle burrito they are eating. I blame technology. If it wasn’t for memory cards getting smaller in size but LARGER in memory, these pictures wouldn’t exist. Twenty years ago, nobody would waste an exposure of their film to get a shot of them outside of Dunkin Donuts. But thanks to 10GB memory sticks, we get to treat our friends and family to the beauty of chain restaurants and stores in a big city. Once again, technology has beaten me again.