{"id":77,"date":"2013-05-24T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-05-24T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T02:19:18","slug":"the-craigslist-curb-alert-a-great-equalizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/05\/24\/the-craigslist-curb-alert-a-great-equalizer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Craigslist Curb Alert, a Great Equalizer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I created my very first Craigslist curb alert. More accurately, a friend created one for me. For folks who don&#8217;t know what this is (as was the case for me before today), a Craigslist curb alert is a notification on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">craigslist.org<\/a> website about garage sales. In preparation to move to Wisconsin I&#8217;m putting the Minneapolis house on the market, and step one is to clean out nine years worth of junk from the basement. A friend informed me that 90% of &#8220;junk&#8221; would be snapped up by others if I put it out for free. So I gave it a try.<\/p>\n<p>The first customer arrived 15 minutes after the announcement was posted, and he was followed by a steady stream of others&#8230;and the first guy returned an hour later (!). When I left for the airport two hours after the announcement was posted 80% of the items were gone; maybe when the friend takes in leftovers tomorrow his predicted 90% mark will be met.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing about the curb alert? A very rich assortment of people picked up stuff. There were recent immigrants who walked over from a nearby public housing project, as well as people rolling up in BMWs. There were blacks, whites, Latino\/as, and Asian Americans. Children hauled items alongside the elderly. The scene was a little United Nations!<\/p>\n<p>One family tried to give me $5 after taking several items. I hope I did not violate some Craigslist rule by refusing it. I was just happy that I was saved a trip to the city dump!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I created my very first Craigslist curb alert. More accurately, a friend created one for me. For folks who don&#8217;t know what this is (as was the case for me before today), a Craigslist curb alert is a notification on the craigslist.org website about garage sales. In preparation to move to Wisconsin I&#8217;m putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8993],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-craigslist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}