Selling Stuff
I was up at my parents house this weekend and ended up coming home with even more crap that I didn’t need. While I appreciate the sentiment, even as an adult, my parents are still trying to provide for me, it is a pretty inconvenient considering the rather diminutive size of my little condo.
The one upside to the whole situation is that it got me motivated to start selling stuff. So I spent a few hours yesterday cleaning out my storage closet and figuring out what stuff I can sell. I ended up listing three things on Ebay and three more things on craigslist (too big to ship) – not to mention I took the opportunity to list the tickets for the Penn State football games I’m not going to make it to this year.
The whole thing got me thinking – does all of this ’stuff’ I’ve acquired over the years really make me happy? There are some things that I really enjoy – but a lot of it is just taking up room. For example, I have a kitchen/dining room table that I may have eaten at five times since I bought it. Really, it has just become the target location of my mail as I come through the door.
So I go through this semi-yearly purge of all the of things I don’t use anymore, and try to get a little bit of scratch for them. The whole thing would be great if I were actually making money off this stuff, but I’m not. I’m just averting a bit of the loss that I would incur if I just threw the crap out.
What do you do with your old stuff you don’t use anymore? Do you donate it to your local charity? Do you throw it out? Have you tried getting rid of any of it on ebay or craigslist? What have you decided was the best thing to do? Other than maybe to stop buying crap you don’t need…
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