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Find map location from IP address. SELL STUFF ON EBAY, ETC. This is the twenty-second day of my 31 Days of Living Well & Spending Zero challenge.

SELL STUFF ON EBAY, ETC

To read all the posts in order, start with Day One or visit the Overview Page. We’ve made it to the home stretch–the last full week of this 31 day challenge! Our first week we focused on taking care of our basic needs, since hunger & boredom are the two main causes of mindless spending. Our second week we focused on cleaning and organizing our homes, learning to enjoy the space that we are in rather than to try to escape it. Last week we started to look at the things we have in a new light, embracing our creativity and making new things out of old. It’s gonna rock! Today we are going to focus on selling stuff we no longer need. 1. When to use eBay: eBay is your best bet for selling popular brand name items (Coach, UGG, etc.) that are in very good or excellent condition, or high value items that are specialized & hard to find. eBay Selling Tips: 2. Craigslist Selling Tips: 3. 4. Garage Sale Selling Tips: Show Me How!

How to use MSCONFIG: Built into Windows is a special tool called the "Microsoft System Configuration Utility" or simply "MSCONFIG.

How to use MSCONFIG:

" Designed to help you troubleshoot problems with your computer, MSCONFIG can also be used to ensure that your computer boots faster and crashes less. Most people know that the more programs you have running on your computer at once, the more likely it is that your computer will either run slowly or even crash. What most people don't know is that every time you boot your computer a whole mess of "hidden" programs load in the background.

Some of these hidden programs are essential, but most aren't. Turning off some of these hidden programs can significantly increase your computer's performance and reliability. For step-by-step instructions on how to use MSCONFIG, please choose your version of Windows: Copyright © 2014 Patrick Crispen. ARTICLES ON EVERY SUBJECT! Handmade goods AIR FRESHENER. December 20, 2011 by Lauren (Check out our new ONLINE SHOP for The Burlap Bag!!)

Handmade goods AIR FRESHENER

We have two cats. They get stanky. And I refused to buy air fresheners. It turns out I already had everything I needed for a homemade and EASY air freshener! What you need: A container (we used these) Baking sodaEssential oil Foil (or a lid you want to ruin and poke holes in) How to Fold a Fitted Sheet. Eureka!

How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

How to: 1. With the sheet inside out, place one hand in each of two adjacent corners. 2. Bring your right hand to your left, and fold the corner in your right hand over the one in your left, so the corner on top is right side out. 30 useful web apps. We'll wrap up this list with 5 web apps that aren't exactly unknown, but are so awesome they still deserve to be included: Gmail As far as web apps go, it’s hard to get more famous than Gmail, the favorite webmail client of the technologically in-the-know.

30 useful web apps

When it launched, it was immediately famous for its immense storage provisions (1 GB at a time when Hotmail offered a whopping 2 MB of storage), revolutionary thread-based email display, and controversy surrounding the privacy ramifications of advertisements based on your emails’ contents. Now, the novelty’s worn off, but Gmail is still best webmail client around. Meebo If you’ve ever used omni-IM service Digsby, you know that its greatest feature is the ability to log in to all your IM accounts from any computer with Digsby installed. Pandora No list of webapps is complete without everyone's favorite internet radio service, Pandora. Remember The Milk Remember The Milk is an online to-do list app, with a remarkably convenient interface. Phone wake up calls. Computer helpers.