Oh, chacha, great idea. And we already have a barn..... But, like bandicoot, I love having my cats in the house just enjoying life. I'm not sure that barn cats would do it for me. Plus being in the country we have lots of predators: owls, hawks, coyotes....
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LOL at all the cat comments. It's indeed great to have so many cat loves on here. @chacha1 -- Cat Density Ratio! Love it. We have 2, and they're a handful so I decided to cap it at that, despite my love of all things feline. I have a hard enough time keeping my house from being overrun by fur as it is.
re: eBay, +1 to asking "is it worth my time". Most of the time I'll decide it isn't. On the rare occasions when I decide to sell something, it'll be either something I can get at least $100 on, or something that's more of a hassle to donate than to sell -- in my case, I'm moving soon so I'll be offering up some of my furniture for almost free; but I'd rather have someone come and pick it up than have to rent a van and take it to the Salvation Army myself.
As for the site used, I've never sold anything on eBay, but I have used Kijiji (the Canadian equivalent of "ebay classifieds" / Craigslist), which is quite popular in my city, and always had a good experience. I've heard mixed reviews about Craigslist, but going by the comments above, it sounds like it'd be preferable to eBay...
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This idea may depend on the value of the items. I have several items of fairly high (more than $100) value that I want to sell but don't have time to deal with. My idea was to take them to one of those "we'll ebay it for you" stores who take a commission out of the profits. anyone ever use one of those?
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I just stumbled upon an interesting article on selling things on ebay posted in September 2010 on zenhabits. Apparently, ebay has been discussed here in the forum previously in a very interesting thread as well, but neither mentions the article above.
(Making a link in the text won't work for some reason)
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I just read the book Stuff, and I was really struck by the author's discussion of hoarding behaviors as being ways to avoid discomfort, and the way that just escalates - if you keep your deceased mother's jewelry to avoid the distress of going through it, then you lose some of your ability to tolerate distress and the next step is keeping all your kids artwork to avoid the distress of deciding about *that*, even if they are alive and with you...and maybe goes on from there.
Not everyone has a mental illness that allows this to escalate to the point of not being able to decide about junkmail and trash. But, most of us have experienced the way we get better at decluttering as we go - there's a first layer of obvious trash and as you do it you think "oh but i'll never be able to tackle these books" but then you do, and maybe you go back in a year and it's even easier to weed the books/clothes, and maybe start on the photos and keepsakes too.
I have been thinking about this as having time to process between the first layer and the second, but it makes sense that it is also me getting more comfortable with the discomfort of discarding.
If that's true, it's worth living with that feeling that money is going down the drain - not only does it get the stuff out of your house efficiently, it helps you learn not to acquire it in the first place and helps you practice getting through that discomfort and doing what you need to do.
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Hey, Rosa, I think you meant to post your comment in another thread?
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actually I think Rosa's comment could go in a whole bunch of threads here. :-) It's that last bit that's really pertinent (to this thread which went on a couple of tangents) ... being willing to choose between trying to monetize our stuff or just getting RID of it in the easiest possible way.
Based on past reading here, I'd say a LOT of us have issues of distress in trying to choose what to keep and what not to keep. It just manifests in different ways.
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lol, chacha1, any comment here could go everywhere here, because it's one big knot that we all are untying.
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and ain't that the truth? It's like being your own psychiatrist. :-)
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Yeah, Nina, it was meant to address the "money going down the drain" thing - I try to be organized when I write but I guess I share the clutterbug "long rambly messages" habit Dr. Frost also talks about.
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