GRANNIES NEED EXTRA MONEY TOO!

I recently had a conversation with an old school chum and she was broadly hinting that times are kinda tough right now and how she could use some extra cash. This topic digresses from senior dating but is important to a lot of seniors in this down economy we are all experiencing. This is a quick method I use myself whenever I want some extra cash for a special purpose, like a cruise!

Everybody has too many books lying all over the house that they will probably never read! You can easily turn those books into some extra money by selling them on Half.com. Half.com is part of eBay but charges no fees for listing on their service until you sell your items. It is not only for books but for DVDs, CDs, audiotapes & electronic game modules etc. Check it out and then follow this plan:

l. Take every book you have in your house that you don’t want to keep for some special reason and all those you know you will never ever read again and list them on Half.com.

2. Beg, borrow or steal every book you can from relatives and friends, tell them you are starting a new charity (yourself).

3. Check out garage sales, you can usually buy books for 50-cents or $1 and sometimes can get a whole box of books for a couple of bucks! Almost any book on Elvis will bring big $$, I recently bought one at a garage sale for $1 and got $36 for it!

4. Estate sales usually have trouble getting rid of all the books. At the end of the sale — buy ‘em all for one low price and list them on Half.com.

5. Thrift stores sell books rather inexpensively, go on senior citizen discount day and get them for less. Large churches sometimes hold special book sales or even church rummage sales are a good target for really cheap books.

6. Call your local library they may have perodic sales of discarded titles, in my hometown they hold a sale 1st a month at a warehouse location but also have racks of discarded books at each library that are pretty cheap. Discarded books do get “marked” as such which makes them less valuable on Half-com but you can get some very interesting titles which will still sell.

You will soon figure out which books can make you some money and which can’t. Fiction & novels do not sell well (there are just too many copies of them), non-fiction sells the best…self-help, animal books, how-to-books, text-books, even children’s books sell well. One of the little-known secrets of Half.com that they won’t tell you about is that you can actually make some money on the postage even if you sell a book for 75 cents which is the minimum price. The postage is a set amount and is always Media Mail which you can print the labels for on your computer thru PayPay (in case you haven’t done that before). PayPal gives you a tiny break on the postage price (they cut a deal with the USPS due to large volume). Avoid selling really really heavy books as it will eat you up on postage, but on most you can make an extra 50 cents to $1 or so over and above the selling price of the book.

Half.com is for newer books, not antiques books, those will sell better on eBay. You don’t have to take pictures or write descriptions like you do when selling at eBay as they use the ISBN# and auto-generate all that information for you in the listing. Do pay attention to the “condition” part of the listings, they are pretty strict about that, if in doubt, just go one category below what you think it might be. They even give “suggested” selling prices but you do not have to follow their “suggestions”, check out what the others are selling for and just be reasonable, usually the lowest price book gets sold 1st, so keep that in mind if there are a lot of books like yours listed. There is a bit of work to Half.com but once you get going it is a lot easier than selling on eBay, you don’t have to concentrate very much while you are listing and can even watch TV at the same time.

Now that USPS actually picks up packages at your mailbox, it is a breeze to do the shipping. I put small & medium size books in a large-size envelope that I buy in bulk at Sam’s Club, add a piece of cardboard for stiffening if the book is flimsy or wrap the books in a heavy brown paper, boxes are too expensive and not really necessary. You can usually get by with not spending more than 10 cents per book to mail.

The biggest problem in the beginning is that Half.com only pays twice a month (they will direct-deposit to your bank account) and you have to pay for the postage up front, so there is a little outlay of expense there. But, Half.com gives you 5 business days to ship so you won’t be out too much for too long.

I recently rounded up a bunch of books I had lying around my house & sold almost $300 in one month, so I know it is possible. You can also do almost the same thing with Amazon and several other used book sites on the Internet. I have not had any personal experience with those but feel free to check “em out. The book market is fairly saturated and competitive so I doubt if there is much difference in the selling fees they pay out.

If you are in need of some quick Granny Cash jump on over to Half.com and check it out!

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TOO OLD FOR SEX?

I hope I never get too old for sex – I really don’t think there is a sexpiration date!  Recent studies show that a majority of seniors still enjoy sex and that about 50% of people in their 70′s are still sexually active.  Probably those statistics would be higher if the availability was easier or more well known.

We probably all remember when it seemed especially repulsive to think of our own parents actually “doing-it” and certainly we never suspected that our grandparents still could.  I wonder if kids today still think that way or has TV and the Internet made them more realistic and worldly?  We may not have model-like figures anymore, older bodies don’t bend the same way as before and the occasional cramp in the leg can get kinda embarrasing, but the feelings are still there and it is a healthy, natural thing to be sexually active in our senior years for as long as we are physically able.

Senior dating sites offer some possibilities but how forward should you be in your quest for a sex partner?  I have viewed a few of the online grannie porn sites and they are a bit too graphic for me.  Pornography has always been mostly for men who are far more visual than women.  I guess a few smart smut operators have finally learned to produce some porn that appeals more to women but I’m not much of a late-night, turn-on-the-tube type so haven’t really searched it out.  Actually, it might be a real turn-on to view it with a sex partner, even granny & grandpa might could learn some new tricks.

Come to think of it, although hopefully it will be a long way off, I wonder if they allow conjugal visits in nursing homes?

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Seniors Love Affair with Pets!

Most senior citizens have a real love affair with their pets and I have found the perfect website for senior pet lovers!
A Social Network for Your Pet! Join YouPet.com Free!

You can create a profile just like on a senior dating site and upload a picture of your pet, you can meet other pet lovers, find pet health & training tips and they even offer weekly prizes. Right now you can:
Win a $100 Petco Gift Card on YouPet.com!
This isn’t just for dogs & cats either, there are sections for birds, horses, fish and more. Sign up now and get started in this new Global Pet Community. This is a great way to get involved on the Internet, who knows maybe there are some other single seniors with pets, it is certainly worth a try and sounds like a lot of fun!

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