Last month, not knowing how much my packages weighed cost me over $50 in shipping mistakes while selling some things I no longer need.

To fix that, I purchased the Saga Mercury 66 lb Digital Postal Scale — and after about a dozen shipments, it has practically paid for itself.

I'm trying to clean out a lot of stuff I don't need that's just taking up space and I've been listing some of these items on eBay and some on Craigslist. It's been a long time since I've used eBay and man have things changed for the worse!

When eBay was first becoming popular it was a great place to get good deals on used items that were no longer in production or if you didn't want to pay full retail price on something and didn't mind it being used. It facilitated consumer-to-consumer transactions and it did it very well.