Craig's List Adventure

With my new "save the money on groceries" phase slowly coming together, I did some research and thought about purchasing a seal-a-meal or food saver. When you have these, you can seal meat from the grocery store in your freezer without it getting freezer burn. Also, if you buy from a butcher who already puts their meat in freezer paper, you could use the seal a meal when splitting up packages for later use.

It seems easy enough to use...

So I went searching. Unfortunately, they are a little pricey to "just try it." The seal-a-meal is considerably cheaper than a food saver, $49.99 compared to $183.00. When you invest in the seal-a-meal or food saver, you also need the bags or rolls of wrap to go with it.

I thought to myself, hey- I bet someone would be selling it on craigslist or ebay, so I went searching. What do you know, I found an ad on Craig's List for a BRAND NEW seal-a-meal in package for $25 OBO. I offered $10 and next day pick up, and everything seemed to be falling in place.

Fast forward to 5:00 yesterday. I sat in the Target parking lot in a town about 30 minutes away from my house (but a middle spot for meeting the other person) for 15 minutes and did not see them. They had my number and I knew I was in the right place, so I figured they were running late and went into the store to do some browsing. About 30 minutes later, with still no call, I knew something was up. My husband was with me so we went to dinner (AHHH! Not in the budget or plans, but what can you do at 6:00 when you are hungry and 30 minutes from home?) We finished at 7:00 and still no phone call.

 Craigslist FAIL.

So I ended up not getting my brand new seal-a-meal for $10.00. I e-mailed the person and let them know I was no longer interested in wasting my time and will continue the search elsewhere.

On the bright side, I did not get stabbed, robbed, or scammed :)