Decluttering your home can
be quite intimidating. Requiring a lot of time and effort, it is a seemingly
herculean task so you’re stumped and don’t know where to start.
Enter the KonMari Method,
an organizing technique made famous by tidying expert Marie Kondo. She has
written books on the topic, and appeared on the Netflix show ‘Tidying Up with
Marie Kondo.’ Her method involves tidying by category (clothes, books, papers
miscellaneous items, and sentimental items), keeping only the things that
“spark joy,” and letting go of items that don’t. The technique encourages
thanking the discarded items for serving you.
Now, where do you bring all
your pre-loved stuff after you thank them? Well, take a cue from the thousands
of sellers of secondhand items on OLX and turn your clutter into cash by conveniently selling it online.
A recent study by OLX, the country’s leading classifieds platform,
computed the potential profit you can earn by decluttering your home and
selling pre-owned goods that no longer spark joy. The research identified the
popular, fastest-selling categories: fashion, gadgets, and health and beauty
products. It then further looked into the pre-loved items most often bought in
these categories, the average price of these items, and the average number of
times buyers purchase them in a year.
Based on these data, you
can potentially earn an estimated P17,700 by letting go of fast-selling used
stuff and selling them online.
The most popular pre-owned
fashion items are shoes and clothes, which have average prices of P1,250 and
P750, respectively. On average, online shoppers buy two pairs of shoes and five
pieces of clothes. If you tidy up your closet, and sell two pairs of footwear
and five pieces of clothing you no longer wear, you can earn P6,250.
Health and beauty products,
meanwhile, have an average price of P450 and are usually purchased by online
buyers 13 times per month. If you KonMari your beauty drawer and sell 13
products that don’t spark joy, your potential earning is P5,850.
Mobile phones are the most
popular gadgets online, and buyers, on average, purchase them twice a year.
Post an ad of your old cellphone on OLX, and you may earn P2,800 per unit,
which is the average price of used mobile phones bought online.
Who knew that letting go of
our material possessions could actually make us happier? Let others experience
what once sparked joy to you by selling your pre-loved items on OLX, which
provides effortless ways to reach your customers.
“Our research shows a
trend. More and more offline sellers are moving into the online domain to sell
pre-loved items. Their top three reasons? One, it's easy and convenient. Two,
it reaches more shoppers compared to offline selling, in which the audience is
limited by location. Lastly, reason number three: Earn money. Instead of
letting your old stuff collect dust in a drawer, sell it and make money,” said
OLX Philippines Head of Goods and Services Rambo Joinani.
Make decluttering a
fruitful and income-generating activity. Sell pre-loved items only on OLX, the
biggest classifieds community. Visit www.olx.ph.
OLX Philippines is part of the OLX
Group, the world’s leading classifieds platform in growth markets. Having 17
brands worldwide, OLX Group is available in more than 40 countries, where its
market-leading trading platforms are being used by more than 330 million people
monthly.
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