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hola and welcome to my channel my name is Duggin and i’m a certified public accountant and i love to talk about money and anything related to it so i wanted to introduce you to myself and show you what i’ve gotten around my house is either free or super cheap off of either craigslist facebook marketplace or gov deals so let’s get right into it here we go [Music] let’s take a look at some of the stuff that i found off either craigslist facebook marketplace or gov deals first one here is my ford f-150 it is just a single cab with a little bit extra space in the back of the cab and nothing special it’s pretty much stock like there’s nothing that is extra on it the windows are manual there’s no power locks it’s a the stick shift and we’re just gonna keep on going all right next thing is a trailer that i got from my dad him and his friend who is a welder they built it probably in the early 80s and when i got it from my dad it was the color of rust the there was paint chips everywhere and so i had to redo the paint redo the boards i had to take up all the old boards that were rotted i put down new bolts going down through to the frame and redid the lights put some new ones on here and the tires were dry rotted and i put new tires on it actually they were new to me i went to a shop that takes uh tires that are still in good condition but might have something wrong with them like a hole and they’ll plug the hole and that’s where i got those um the trailer i paid 250 for it and all the other parts that i put into it uh probably another hundred dollars and so i got a trailer for 350 dollars let’s go around to the back of the house a lot of times when i am on craigslist i am in the free section and usually i don’t have anything in mind or in particular that i’m looking for but i’ll end up seeing something and it’s like oh we need that or someone in my family wants that or it might be a good gift and a lot of times you find something that’s someone just doesn’t want anymore they need to get it either out of the house out of their car or out of their yard and i found this playset for free and it was in pretty bad condition as far as just the condition of the wood but everything was still good on it the slide was good the only thing that we’ve replaced a few parts on are like this handle this is a new handle but all the wood is original and when we got it i just pressure washed it and that was three years ago and the my kids have loved it and they’ve just had a good old time and even this sand as someone had extra bags of sand that i went and picked out as well at a different listing so this whole thing in order to even move it uh i unbolted this a-frame section on this end and this board unbolted it from the main part of the playset and that would just lift off and i put my truck in my trailer that i just showed you just up beside it pulled it up beside it and tilted this on top of the trailer that trailer so small it can’t actually hold it and so it was sitting on top of the sidewalls of the trailer and i just strapped it on and i believe this board here also uh came off we were able to unscrew it and just put this in the trailer as well and i got it myself so there’s things you can do that is free or cheap that doesn’t really cost you a whole bunch but sometimes it’s good to just go out and get something that might be new like we ended up getting this little trampoline swing set new because new it was just a little over a hundred dollars and trying to find one that’s still in good condition might be hard because we’ve had that one for about four years now so let’s go to the front yard so that playset we got it three years ago two years ago i saw another one that was for free and it was probably about an hour and a half away from us so there was kind of a big question on if we even wanted to get it but it was humongous like the pictures i knew it was going to be big so i had to get my dad to come help me and just in comparison from the other one this one uh when i first walked up to it i thought we’re not going to be able to get this because it might look small from far off but when you actually walk up to it the swings like i can’t even reach the top part of the swing set and it’s a like a two-tier uh playset where it’s got a little lower section with a ladder coming up into a platform and then it goes up to where that platform up there has the slot even on this side it’s got a rock wall as well which is a lot bigger than the one in the backyard it’s about my height and we got this two years ago and we love that it even had a slide which either later in this video or the next video i’m going to clean this up since we’ve had this for two years it’s been underneath these trees and some of these trees are a black walnut and as you can see it just gets filthy the inside of the slide is not bad though it’s it stays clean and it has a cool little picnic table and so when we were actually getting it [Music] my dad had a more of a flatbed trailer that was a 16-footer that trailer over there i believe is eight feet and only four and a half five feet wide and so it’s hard to get too much in that but i took that down there we got some of it in there but most of it was in one trip we put this on his 16 foot trailer and his truck bed my truck bed and a small trailer one thing we had to do was get some new canopy on some of it because that actually doesn’t last as long as the playset itself it’ll start wearing out in a few years where they’ll get holes in it [Music] just the plastic material will wear out and so free and if you went to go buy a playset like this this playset would be in the thousands of dollars the brand is a rainbow place systems incorporated um i’ve seen a few of those listed before and the amount of effort it took to get this i really wouldn’t want to do it again uh glad we did it the first time glad we got it here but uh it was a lot of work and so even though it was free it was still a lot of work and the people who were getting rid of it were glad to just get it out of their yard we were glad to get it because once again kids love it it’s got four swings and then they have this really cool air pogo it has a spring inside this pvc pipe and it’s capped off at the top there’s a rope that is tied up at the top and so that little seat they can sit on that or stand on it and it goes up and down and we’ve i’ve never even seen one of those before but it’s still in great condition as well uh the other thing around our house that i’ve gotten for free are these wood chips that i’ve got at both playsets um it was i think it was just one truckload of wood chips from the tree company that was going around our neighborhoods and clearing up all the trees from the power lines they were going to be going through installing fiber in our neighborhood and the neighborhood across from us and so they had a tree company going through and clearing everything out and chipping up all the limbs that they were clearing out and so early one morning i was out for a walk it was about 6 a.m in the morning and i saw one of the trucks for the crew driving by i had a couple of guys in it and i waved them down and asked them if they had any wood chips uh coming up that day and they said yeah they’re gonna have several truckloads and at first i thought i’m gonna get at least two truckloads and so when he brought it in he put it right in front of the plate set about right there and it was taller than i am and it was so many wood chips that it i really didn’t know what i was going to do with it all and so i had to ask him just leave it at one truckload but it starts to wear out like this was one year ago and even though it’s still here it’s starting to when they first bring it it has wood chips and leaves in it and so it’s really light and fluffy when they first dump it out but over the course of the year it it flattens out and gets really matted and so it does a really great job as a playset material but as you can see like it’s really matted down and it doesn’t get washed away and in our front yard that is was something i was worried about because we have a creek it’s a dry creek meaning whenever it rains it fills up and it’s flowing and we just recently had a lot of rain and it’ll be rushing but once it actually kind of continues on and stops for a while stops raining for a while it’ll it’ll just dry up but it came up it comes up in the slow section here of our creek and there’s a little tree line right here that it’ll come up to and as you can see these wood chips are still here it’s been really good and one of the last things that i have outside is this hammock it was at a store that is near us that does a a almost like a countdown of every week the merchandise will get marked off another 10 and if you dig through their store sometimes you can find things in their store that are 90 off and i got that for 90 off ended up paying about seven or eight dollars for that hammock but yeah lots of stuff i look for are free items items that are super cheap or something i’ve been wanting to get and i think you can do the same thing too just keep your eyes open i just make it it’s fun for me so it’s just part of what i do it’s one of the habits i have is looking for free stuff all right if you like that video if you want to see more uh things that i found on the cheap coming up let me know down in the comments and i’ll bring you another video here shortly see ya
YouTube Description
Find $1,000’s for Free on Craigslist & Facebook Marketplace
Walk around my property with me as I show you what I’ve found for free or super cheap from Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and Govdeals.
Things I’ve found include multiple playsets, my truck, woodchips, and more.
My name is Duggin, I’m a Certified Public Accountant and I like talking about anything money related.
