“The UAE’s President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has declared 2017 as the Year of Giving.
‘Giving’ is a value we cherish and saw personified in the UAE’s Founding Father Sheikh Zayed. We continue to see this philanthropic legacy embodied by his sons and ingrained in the DNA of our society. Through my humble experience, I believe giving is not limited to monetary donations. Rather, “giving” is defined by the differences we make: the differences in someone’s life, in a society, or in a nation. Sheikh Zayed’s legacy is not measured in the generous donations he made to the less fortunate only, but in the impact he has had on our lives and our country forever. This is our goal for the Year of Giving – to make a difference in the lives of those we care for, and in ourselves.” –Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Melltoo Marketplace embraces the vision of our national leaders and looks forward to Ramadan 2017 as an opportunity to start making an impact on society.
We invite you to join us in giving back and helping those those among us in need.
Here is how YOU can help:
List your pre-owned items to sell. Make the world a more sustainable place by re-selling your stuff.
We will sell your stuff for you. We will promote your items to buyers, pick up and deliver your items as well as transfer your money to you.
Make a difference in someone’s life. Melltoo will donate 1% of all sales proceeds during Ramadan 2017 to provide food for the needy with the help of Emirates Red Crescent.
Remember, every action, no matter how small, counts. Start selling now.
Download our app and list your items immediately via melltoo.me/downloadapp (this link will take to your phone’s app store).
As with every year, we will glad to have our buyers continuously shop on our app to save money while reducing the need to produce more and increase waste. During the entire month of Ramadan, earn free credit daily (up to AED 500) with us and buy preloved electronics, fashion, and more for you and your family.
How it works:
Answer our daily trivia questions in-app. Learn more about Ramadan, charity, and culture in the UAE
Earn credit for correct answers. The answer to each trivia question is a promocode that earns you credit to spend.
Spend your credit when you want. Accumulate credit and spend it when you want to purchase pre owned electronics, fashion, and home items (Terms and Conditions apply).
You can only play this guessing game and use the promo codes on the mobile applications.
Start earning credit now: melltoo.me/downloadapp (download the app and create an account)
Remember, every time you buy something, 1% of the sales proceeds will be donated to Emirates Red Crescent.
Help us give back to society. Join us and together we will make a difference.
If you want to read about Melltoo’s vision and plan to contribute to the UAE’s sustainability efforts and goal to reduce waste, read our latest blog post: Melltoo Manifesto, Vision and Values.
In the UAE, people love good deals. In this series, we will highlight amazing preloved items from our Mellsters (Melltoo users). They are your neightboors, your friends, your colleagues. Each day we will pick good deals from the app and promote them to our different social media plateforms.
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DETAILS OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Because you love a good deal in UAE #8
Show Rack – price AED 66
Sark brown shoe rack only 6 months old bought from homes r us for 1200. In excellent condition
King Size Bed – price AED 2190
Kind size bed with mattress and storage place on both the sides of the bed. Bought from home center for 4000 with mattress only one and half year old.
In the UAE, people love good deals. In this series, we will highlight amazing preloved items from our Mellsters (Melltoo users). They are your neightboors, your friends, your colleagues. Each day we will pick good deals from the app and promote them to our different social media plateforms.
In the UAE, people love good deals. In this series, we will highlight amazing preloved items from our Mellsters (Melltoo users). They are your neightboors, your friends, your colleagues. Each day we will pick good deals from the app and promote them to our different social media plateforms.
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DETAILS OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Because you love a good deal in UAE #3
Console – price AED 1000
Very convenient console. Mix of wood and metallic cover. We store keys, coins, visit cards, etc in the small drawers.
White Chest Of Drawers – price AED 1000
In good condition, it is perfect to store different sized items and feel organized: batteries, table clothes… At the same time, you can use the top for exposing pictures and souvenirs.
Pool Safety Fence/Gate – price AED 3000
20mx1.2m. Very safe pool fence that we used for our baby girl. Moving to a house without pool. It was professionally installed and cost 9000Dhs. If you are interested, we can contact the supplier for you who will install it.
Antique Bookshelf – price AED 1200
This bookshelf comes from Sweden where it has been restored to get a shabby chic look but kept all its authenticity!
In the UAE, everyone has something to sell. In this series, the Melltoo team will highlight amazing preloved items from people all over the UAE. They are your neightboors, your friends, your colleagues.
Each month we will profile 10 of you and promote your great deals to our community of over 100,000 users.
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DETAILS OF MOHAMMED HASANAT ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Everyone has something to sell in UAE #31 / Name: Mohammed Hasanat / Location: Sharjah
Multiple Turkish branded Coffee Sets – price AED 380
Execlusively for Turkish Coffee lovers two pairs of phenominal Turkish set of cups for sale. Those branded items cultivates oriental blend in its decoration and fittings. Multiple shapes are available i.e. floral and semi plan. No chips no scratches at all. Check out the photos. For further details please pm me.
Phenominal Turkish Coffee Sets – price AED 200
Execlusively for Turkish Coffee lovers three pairs of phenominal Turkish set of cups for sale. Those branded items cultivates oriental blend in its decoration and patterns. Multiple shapes are available i.e. floral and gold plated semi plan. No chips no scratches at all. Check out the photos. For further details please pm me.
Adorable indoor plants for sale – price AED 150
All has to ho away by tomorrow Adorable multiple indoor plants for sale. Very well maintained in fancy ceramic and plastic pots from Ikea. Plants will be sold to best buyers. Hurry up and PM your offers now.
WHY ARE YOU SELLING THESE ITEMS?
Unwanted gift and does not fit in our new home which is smaller in size
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE?
” Do it right at all times ”
HOW DO I CONTACT THE SELLER?
1. Download the Melltoo app
2. Search for the username “Mohammed Hasanat” from your activity feed
3. Chat with Mohammed Hasanat instant message
In the UAE, everyone has something to sell. In this series, the Melltoo team will highlight amazing preloved items from people all over the UAE. They are your neightboors, your friends, your colleagues.
Each month we will profile 10 of you and promote your great deals to our community of over 100,000 users.
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DETAILS OF ELAZYCH ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Everyone has something to sell in UAE #27 / Name: elazych / Location: Dubai
Type of item: Bed sheet Category: Home/Bedding Seller name: Bharti Item Name: Bed sheet Location: Sharjah Price for this Bed Sheet: AED 160
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best bed sheet for good night’s sleep
Getting a good night’s sleep is the key to being happy and healthy, but who said you couldn’t be happy and healthy in style? Our user Bharti from Sharjah is selling beautiful king size 3D cotton sets that include a flat bed sheet, 4 pillow covers and 1 duvet cover all for only 160dhs! Get in touch with Bharti today and never miss out on a good night’s sleep again.
Bed sheet prices in UAE available in Sharjah
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DETAIL OF THE ITEM
Kingsize 3D cotton bedsheet including: 1 flat bedsheet 4 pillow cover 1 duvet cover. Many designs available.
Want to declutter your home? Nominate Yourself or a Friend today!
*You may also nominate a friend
Are you drowning in clutter and overwhelmed with stuff at home?
Do you and your household staff struggle to find things when you most need them?
Do you find it difficult to sell items you want to remove from your home ?
If you’ve answered yes to the above questions, then you are eligible for a FREE Home Decluttering 1 hour taster session*.
OUR SOLUTION:
Step 1: Declutter your house!
Shelina Jokhiya, a professional organiser, serial declutterer, entrepreneur and owner of Decluttr Me, will come to your home to declutter your home for 1 Hour for Free.
Step 2: Turn your excess stuff into cash by reselling!
The Melltoo MarketPlace team will help you price your decluttering items and turn them into cash by selling them on the Melltoo app.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
1- Nominate Yourself or a Friend for a FREE 1 hour decluttering session in the comment box of this blog post.
2- Take a picture of the space/room you wish to declutter
3- Tell us why you think you need help (max 1 paragraph written, OR max 1 min video/audio)
4- Send your picture file or link to [email protected]
(Your content may be featured on the Melltoo MarketPlace blog and on the Decluttr Me blog and social media)
We will choose 3 of the entrants for a FREE decluttering session.
(The decluttering session will be filmed and featured on the Melltoo MarketPlace blog and on the Decluttr Me blog and social media)
APPLICATION PERIOD
Opens: 10th of December
Ends: 10th of February
POWERED BY
The “Guess Who’s Coming Home” project is powered by Melltoo MarketPlace and Decluttr Me
To find out more about Melltoo MarketPlace click here
To find out more about Decluttr Me click here
Do you want to declutter your life? “Ask Shelina” is a podcast for anyone who wants to learn how to declutter their life, but doesn’t know where to start. It is hosted by Shelina Jokhiya, Founder of Decluttr Me, the first company in the UAE created to help people organize their lives and Melltoo Marketplace is the official organizer of the podcast series.
Not sure what to do with all your excess stuff after decluttering? Melltoo Marketplace solves this problem by helping you promote your posts and connecting you with buyers. We even handle payment and delivery on your behalf! Decluttering in the UAE has never been this easy.
Here is the first episode:
Each episode brings you useful tips and tricks that you can implement today to become organized and live stress-free.
INTERVIEW WITH DUBAI DECLUTTERING EXPERT SHELINA JOHKIYA TRANSCRIPT
Sean: Everyone, good afternoon, my name is Sean, and I am here with Ibrahim and Shelina from DeclutterMe. You are here this afternoon to talk about decluttering, basically, Shelina is the expert in the house and she is going to tell us everything and anything we need to know about decluttering because personally, I myself, I am new to this kind of thing. I did not even know something like this existed. Yeah, it’s exciting what she has to say – things she has been doing. What she has – the experience she has gotten so far from it, and the motivation behind it from the start to finish. What she has been doing up until now, she will just walk us through and tell us about everything. So, Shelina please just introduce yourself a little bit to the people. Let them know about you.
Shelina: Hi, my name is Shelina, I as Sean said, I work at Deecluttr me. It’s a decluttering and organizing business for the UAE. So I go into people’s homes, get rid of their clutter with them and then create organized systems for them to be organized moving forward. That could be using storage boxes, labeling areas, labelling boxes, providing tips to the maids on how the systems will be working – so that they know how to be organized moving forward. And even training the kids and the husband, because they are the ones who can’t find anything, or make the mess – especially the kids, so they get trained on how to put their toys back into the right places at the end of the day. And that’s how I work. It’s been running for a year, and I’ve been working with various clients around the country helping them out to get organized.
Sean: Wow, wow, ok. So the first time you told me about this, I was stunned basically, I am still stunned now that you actually do this, it’s amazing for me personally. You have told us basically what it is about, but I would just like you to tell us a little bit more about the history, how it started, what motivated you, what inspired you to do this, to go into decluttering?
Shelina: I started; well I have always been like this. I have always been organized, which my parents have been frustrated with. So, I always organized at home and being neat and tidy. And then I was a solicitor, a lawyer for thirteen years and every company I’ve worked for, all legal filing systems have always been reorganized by me, because they were a mess before. So I’ve made sure everything was in the proper way archived, shredded what needed to be shredded, and that there was not accumulated paper everywhere. And in my last few years of being a lawyer I was a compliance officer as well, so I had to make sure that everybody complied around with – around the world – with the regulations for the group company. So that’s my background. So it has always been in me and then I have had the compliance side and the legal side. So I understand what is required for health and safety and for other regulations within this country and for other countries as well.
Sean: It’s ok it’s fine. Ok, well, knowing that is how you started, like you just said, you worked basically in the corporate world, but then you could not help but bring out that sense of orgainzing in you and you just used it basically to go on.
Shelina: Exactly
Sean: My question again is this, how did you find it easy to just transition from corporate to doing this, because basically you’re are a start-up on your own? How was it for you, how was the journey?
Shelina: Luckily for me, I was a company secretary so I knew about forming companies, especially in the UAE. So forming a company was easy for me, I found the right free zone to use. And doing the back end things, dealing with the legal and finance was easy. But being a marketer, a seller, it’s a new concept for me – and getting out there and networking. So it was a tough transition, and this is a new concept in the UAE and the Middle East, so having to educate people and bring the concept here. It’s been, it’s taken a year for people to understand what the business is and for me to get recognition. Now, it’s become a brand in the country, but it has taken this long. So it’s like any start-up – you have to work hard, you have to make mistakes, waste money on things that you shouldn’t do, especially on advertising, And you learn, and I’m doing this by myself, so it’s even tougher. But I have worked with good collaborators such as Melltoo, and I’ve learnt a lot from various different people. So it’s built itself into a company that I think has a potential to become massive here both in (5:37?)
Sean: Of course, of course, thank you. My next question is this – seeing as you have just told us of how it’s gone within a year – how that you have grown, how you’ve found ways to introduce this to people. Because it is a new concept like you said here in the region. What has been the acceptance so far, how have people taken to DeclutterMe, how have they accepted decluttering as a content?
Shelina: Alot of people have heard of it before. They’ve seen programmes from the UK and the USA about decluttering and orgainzing. Especially programmes like Hoarders. So a lot of people they’ve gone, “Oh, I’ve have heard of this.” And then gone, “Oh we did not know there was a business here. Some people have needed educating, and not understanding decluttering. It seems to be a very new word for a lot of people. But I’ve used various forms of advertising. I’m big on Social media, so I’m on all the big social accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google plus, LinkedIn – and that is just a few of them, so YouTube as well. So I am everywhere, and I post every day, and I give tips to my followers and give advice and talk to them, and get clients from that. So they see what I can do, and then they use my services. But it was a long winded process and it takes a while to do it and to get out there. But it’s satisfying at the end when we get clients and you get them happy with the results at the end, then it’s all worth it.
Sean: Ok, wow, again personally, I do think you are doing something really, really amazing here. And from what you have told us so far it’s – do not only have collaborators, but you have people working with you, because this looks like something hands on. It’s not you can’t – I do not know how you’re do it, but it’s amazing, how you go into places and get things organized. But I just want to know, what is the man power like for you? How do you get assistance from the people, heavy lifting, because obviously they are going to have heavy things I’m assuming?
Shelina: It does, I’ve been lucky. Most of my clients, they have maids so they help a lot. And they have to anyway, because they’re in the house and in the areas and they know how the house works so they help me a lot. But I work with the client directly. It’s a personal thing to let somebody into your house. It’s tough, and to let them see how your house is. So it is a mental and physical thing, so I don’t have assistants with me or anybody come and join in. It’s just me and the client and the household. Most of the things I can do. If I need help, or if there is a lot of heavy lifting, then we can always hire a freelancer to come and help if we do not have the resources. But generally, it is just me by myself helping the client.
Sean: Thank you very much Shelina. We are happy to have you here. We are very, very glad that you have spent some time to talk to us about this.
Shelina: Thank you for having me. Sean: You’re are welcome. We definitely hope to have more of these podcasts. Unfortunately we cannot continue with this section because time is of the essence, I mean, you are a very busy person, I can tell.
Shelina: Yes.
Sean: So on our next podcast, we will be having you again hopefully and you will tell us more about Declutter ME and what you do, how you do it and where and when you do it. Hopefully you will be more prepared then. You’ve obviously given us so much insight right now, but we want to know more. I am sure the people will want to know more as well because this is a new concept. Shelina: Yep
Sean: So, see you soon and thank you very much for coming.