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busy shoppers!” said Kelsey. “Can
we offer you these complimentary
homemade cookies instead?”
Here’s the bad news: Because
we either gave away (or ate) our
cookies and traded instead of
sold almost all of our things, we
didn’t make enough money to buy
those backpacks. But here’s the
good news: all three of us ended
up with a bunch of fantastic stuff
that didn’t cost us a single cent!
So, dear Seller, if you’d actually
like to make some money, be sure
to sell your merchandise instead
of giving it away. But if you’d
like to get rid of some toys and
everywhere for a cozy, fuzzy You can probably see where find some new ones, think about
hoodie exactly like this!” this is going. By the time we’d organizing a toy swap and then
said Mareya. scooped up everything we wanted, donating what’s left to charity.
I spied a neon-orange there wasn’t much to sell. And Trading what you already have
San Francisco Giants cap. instead of figuring out exactly instead of buying new stuff
“This is great!” I said. “Which how much we owed each other, we isn’t just a fun thing to do with
one of you is selling it?” decided to call it an even trade. friends. It’s also a great way to
“Wow, we should have stopped cut down on some of the clutter
After we scooped up by sooner,” a woman said, looking on our planet.
at our empty tables.
everything we “I guess the early bird Ciao for now,
wanted, there wasn’t really does get the worm!” said Arizona
her friend.
much to sell. “Yes, we had some, uh, very
“I have always
loved that shirt.”
