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On looking for alternative ways to earn money at home, a couple folks on this forum have mentioned they buy items from sales and sell them on ebay. My brother just forwarded me a link to an item for sale on ebay that convinced me you can sell ANYTHING on there. Someone in New York listed a BAG OF LINT for sale. Hmm, wonder if I could sell my ironing? Maybe old cardboard boxes? Ashes from the woodstove? The possiblities are endless if they can sell lint! I may have to check into this....Jan
-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), September 03, 2001
After some of the things I've seen for sale at yard sales nothing surprises me.
-- Grannytoo (jacres40@hotmail.com), September 03, 2001.
Seems to me that I saw in a catalog some sort of device to hang outside that you filled with lint for the birds to use to build nests. If you buy the device, I guess you have to buy the lint to put in it!
-- Katherine (KyKatherine@Yahoo.com), September 03, 2001.
my sis told me many years ago, "if you save a bushel of belly-button lint you can get a free trip to the moon." but i think you need two bushels, one for the trip back!check with your local travel agency,the price may have gone up, innieflation you know.
-- fred in wi (sixuvusmeyers@aol.com), September 03, 2001.
Lint is also very useful for making really nice homemade paper - I sometimes grab up a bag when I catch my laundromat lady cleaning out the traps!
-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), September 03, 2001.
I have a friend that saves the lint from her dryer but the odd thing is she does not know why she saves it. I know she has one large trash bag full and is working on another.
-- Mark in N.C. Fla. (deadgoatman@webtv.net), September 03, 2001.
Now, mind you, I'm not trying to deny the value of lint, just as an item to save, after all, it does make great fire starters tucked into empty toilet tissue rolls, or into egg cartons and topped with melted wax, but who in their right mind would BUY the stuff, plus pay $3.50 for shipping? Jan
-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), September 03, 2001.
Went to a bazaar in October one year; there were all sorts of halloween stuff. Saw a basket of zippy bags of white styrofoam peanuts (the annoying stuff they put in packaging) for 25 cents a bag. They were labeled "Ghost Droppings". And, yes, there were people buying them!!
-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), September 03, 2001.
fred in Wi you should be drawn a quarted for that navel pun! Heeheee Innie-flation! That was so baaad! What can we say about outties?
-- Alison in N.S. (aproteau@istar.ca), September 03, 2001.
Jan, I've seen some bizarre things on eBay too. It makes me wonder if there is some secret society out there that has a use for lint and old beat up bedroom slippers and other even more noxious things . . .
-- Joy F [in So. Wisconsin] (CatFlunky@excite.com), September 03, 2001.
there is a casket company in Minn. that buys lint from diaper service co's to use as batting in their caskets..
-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), September 03, 2001.
I guess this shows "one man's junk is another man's treasure". It also throws a new light on being frugal.
-- Nancy (NAWoodward@lakewebs.net), September 03, 2001.
I used to save lint from my dryer, but since moving to the country I stopped saving it. The reason I used to save it and store it in quart size sealable plastic bags was to use it to start a fire in a pit or grill. Living on the coast and hurricane ally, the lint is very flammabale thus making it a good woodburning starter. Luckly we never had to use the lint, but I thought it was a good thing to have in our hurricane prepardiness kit.
-- Carol from Dixie (plantlady51@webtv.net), September 04, 2001.
Lint ???What's that ( only kidding). I don't have any for sale. Hang my laundry outside in the fresh air to dry. Guess I won't make a million this week. (he he)
-- Helena Di Maio (windyacs@ptdprolog.net), September 04, 2001.
I think this fellow must have a screw loose! If you look at his other auctions, he has some magazines and sewing patterns for sale but he is also trying to sell ads torn out of magazines and catalogs (like Smith & Hawkins)! Most have more money and time to waste than any of us!
-- Cindy in NY (cjpopeck@worldnet.att.net), September 04, 2001.
alison in n.s., give me a day or two, i'll thinkuvsumthin! btw where is n.s.?
-- fred in wi (sixuvusmeyers@aol.com), September 04, 2001.
Jan, Some artists would be interested in lint. Lint can be used for mixed media artwork. I heard of this more than 15 years ago while in college as an art major.The hardest lint to come by was pure white and was mostly gotten from diaper laundering. I can imagine people buy that if that was something they thought they really needed.
I was showing my m-i-l ebay a couple of weeks ago and how people sell just about anything there.
-- LBD (lavenderbluedilly@hotmail.com), September 04, 2001.
Some dryer lint is actually spinnable. Why anyone would want to spin lint, though, is a mystery to me!
-- sheepish (the_original_sheepish@hotmail.com), September 04, 2001.
I bought the bag of lint for my collection. I will keep it on my living room shelf next to the jar of ear wax that I purchased last week.
-- bob wilzon (bobby@yahoo.com), December 29, 2001.