For Sale by Other

Cowgrit loves craigslist.com. We’ll have an old piece of furniture or something to get rid of, and instead of me having to take it to Goodwill or the dump, Cowgrit will put it on craigslist and actually find someone who’ll come get it and give us cash for the privilege. It only takes a couple days, and poof, whatever it is is gone and out of our way.

We had an old bedside table from our boys’ room that no longer fit or matched their other furniture. The table sat in my office for several months — it was out of the way, and out of mind. But Cowgrit eventually got around to listing it on craigslist. It sold within 48 hours. The guy came and picked it up and gave Cowgrit money. Wonderful.

But Calfgrit7 was unhappy with that transaction. He “loved” that table, he said. Never mind that it was shoved in a corner of my office for months, and he had never said anything about in all that time (or before). He was upset that Cowgrit sold it.

Later, Cowgrit found a piece of notebook paper with the words, “For Sale” written big, lying on our bedroom dresser. CG7 had decided to, in turn, sell her “favorite furniture.” Fortunately he doesn’t know how to list anything on craigslist.

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