Craigslist, the popular Web site where folks from around the world find used sofas, second jobs, cheap housing and new soul mates, is starting to ask for money for a spot on its busiest pages.

E-commerce sites like Facebook Marketplace have given unloved pieces a second (or third?) chance at a new beginning, and a provenance they would never have had.

Inspired Life She found $36,000 inside a chair she got for free on Craigslist “I could feel there was a bunch of paper,” Vicky Umodu says about the cushion. “When I pulled it out, I was ...