Could you make an extra $4,200?

Gumtree did a survey to find out how much unwanted stuff Australians have. The answer was $4,200 of per household. That's a lot of money to be tied up in items that we don't even want.

Across Australia this adds up to 34 billion dollars worth of unwanted stuff. $34,000,000,000! That's a lot of stuff just sitting around.

It's probably even more

The survey said the average household has 25 unwanted items. So far my wife and I have sold more than 300* items, with another 60 already listed and more items still to be added. Surely 25 items per household is just the tip of the iceberg.

What do you think?

How many unwanted items do you have at your place? Do you reckon it would be more that 25?

People are cashing in

It's estimated that 100 million items were sold second-hand last year. Millenials are leading the way making almost $2000 per person.

In the last year 56% of Aussies have sold something second hand, including 1.3 million people making their first online sale.

Tips for making thousands

If you'd like to turn some of your unwanted possessions into money, you might like my free ebook Less Clutter More Cash. It's a collection of tips that we've learnt in the process of selling more than 300 of our unwanted items. Hopefully it can help you too.

PS. See my related post 4 Reasons to sell unwanted items

*Update: We've now sold 557 items. So the 25 per household seems to be quite a conservative estimate.

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