Bill Myers

We live in a community that has excellent trash pickup service. Just about anything you leave out on the curb on trash day will be hauled off.

With this in mind, we placed several loads of unwanted items we removed from our storage building on the curb for pickup.

The local trash collectors hauled off everything . . . except a pair of 3rd row car seats from my SUV.

Since I didn't want to store these items, and since the trash haulers wouldn't cart them off, I decided to try and sell them on eBay.

I took a photo of the seats, wrote up a brief description, and placed a listing for the seats on eBay. The listing cost $1.85.

To my surprise, several people bid on the seats, and within three days I had them sold for $280 - and the buyer paid the shipping.

Clearly the old saying, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is still true.

And with eBay, it is easier than ever to find people who treasure what you might consider trash.

Next time, instead of setting it out on the curb for pickup, I'll try to sell it on eBay first.