eBay is celebrating the 100 millionth listing on a mobile device with a gigantic $25,000 sweepstakes!!!


Why: Parents are constantly on-the-go between soccer practice, carpool, errands and never-ending household chores. Selling unused household items on eBay to earn extra cash to fund new items, activities or splurging on a massage is definitely borders on necessity; however, time is precious. The eBay mobile app saves time. It allows you to snap a picture from your phone or iPad and list an item within 60 seconds. Before you leave the room, the closet, the garage, wherever, your item is already accessible to millions of potential buyers worldwide.


How to enter: Anyone who lists an item between Sept. 5-14, 2012 via the eBay Mobile app is entered to win $25,000. New listers need to follow this exact link to get registered and download the app.

• http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-158319-2357-1/4?mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.ebay.com%2Fsellerbration

How to win:

For me back to school was all about having a new backpack, a new lunch box and a new pair of shoes to show off on the first day.

Not much has changed in the past few decades...

If you're like me you began your purchasing of pencils, composition books and crayons on July 5th, the day after July 4th --- when most stores began setting up their displays. To put it into context it's no different than buying Christmas decorations the day after Halloween. But I'll never be that latter guy. Just in case you were curious.

If you're not like me, and you're not residing in Atlanta, where school has already started. But even if you do reside in Atlanta, there never seems to be quite enough when it comes to school supplies and the clothes our kids burn through during the school year. Especially the first couple of weeks when they are still in summer mode and just as rough and tough and careless as they want to be. This goes for both the little ones and the big ones and all the ones in between. Despite all this the most amazing part of Back-to-School is seeing the joy that comes when my daughter sees her friends and reconnects with loud screams and big, little person hugs. My son, the teenager would rather be skewered, but it makes my heart smile each year he advances that much further into adulthood.