sell all my junk

Still getting rid of junk but some has gone to the charity shop, some given away and a lot has been taken away in black bags. More effort required.

...and resist the temptation to buy anymore.

This includes clothes I don’t wear, books I won’t read, little knickknacks I bought as souvenirs, electronics I don’t use, etc.

I ended up moving to another state, which caused me to ditch all sorts of stuff. The decision of what to keep and what to sell/toss is a lot easier when I’m asking myself, “Do I really need to take this all the way to the new place?” I filled up a small dumpster near my apartment, which probably annoyed my neighbors and landlords, but it needed to be done. I also gave away about half of my considerable book collection, mostly to the local library store, and sold other stuff on ebay, with varying amounts of success. My junk is greatly reduced, but I could still stand to get rid of more. I still look around me and think, where did this all COME FROM??

I gave away one of my old animation books as there had been no interest for buyers. I then went and bought a bunch of new books off of Amazon so these now take up fractionally more space than before.

Started this, in a first little baby step kind of way, by putting some stuff up on half.com. Sold two things already, including a $70 textbook! Yay! I’m not sure I love half.com’s stingy postage reimbursement, but maybe I’ve just been too generous with my shipping. Will work on that in the future.

I have a pile of stuff that needs to go on ebay as well.

Thought I’d get back into selling on eBay, and would you believe my first successful auction item is languishing in the mail somewhere? I mailed it over 4 weeks ago and it still hasn’t arrived even though it’s supposed to only take 6-12 business days. Grrrr.

Yay!

Sold two breadboxes on Kijiji—woohoo!

If not on eBay, then maybe craigslist, or ads in the paper, or even a garage sale.