A Weekend Hobby Unlike Any Other

You may have seen clips of Gary Vaynerchuk garage sale flipping over the past couple years, turning a $5 purchase of Beanie Babies into $200 online. This is similar but different.

Facebook Marketplace is craigslist’s younger more transparent sibling.

Facebook Marketplace is a digital marketplace within the Facebook platform that allows users to buy, sell, and trade items with other people in their locality. All transactions take place outside of the app and are not considered in any legal sense to be Facebook’s responsibility. So, Facebook then plays no role in facilitating or managing transactions — users are expected to work that part out between themselves.

In short, Facebook Marketplace allows you to:

Typically a noun, in my speech Facebook Marketplace has become a verb. The same way thrift shopping is a verb, the action of buying, selling, or browsing on Facebook Marketplace is to be known as Facebook Marketplacing, and it’s time to take it seriously.

And so is my personal life.

Last month, I moved cross country and when moving cross country you’re confronted with an array of decisions to make. Most noticeably, how and what will you bring.

In order to answer the first, I needed to answer the second, first. That’s confusing. I needed to decide what I was going to bring before deciding how I would transport myself.

My inclination was to bring it all: Hire a moving company, fly myself. That is until every Los Angeles based moving company quoted me over $11,000 for the 3,000-mile transport.

No thank you. There’s frugality and there is fucking common sense.

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