Lightening the Load
Despite the onslaught of inquiries about my stuff for sale on Craigslist, I have yet to sell a single item to someone I don't know. I heard from a number of people interested in the standing lamps, but when I followed up, they flaked out. Same story with the dresser and nightstand and TV stand. So I've been going through each response systematically, checking with the people to see if they're still interested.
I have managed to sell my cozy chair, the TV Stand, coffee table and all my bookcases to a couple friends, and a couple other friends took a number of cast-off items off my hands for the low, low price of nearly-free.
So I'm making progress. I still have boxes littering my dining and living rooms
My piano, sadly, is a different story. I called a piano shop yesterday and discovered that they're only be able to offer me what amounts to a pittance for it. So I put it up on eBay to see if I could get a bit more for it than $500. It's listed as being watched by a couple people, but no bids yet. Argh...
In the end, I'll have to just take whatever I can get for it because at this point I need to cut my losses, get rid of it and move on.
It's odd how the simple act of putting something into a box marked "give away" can help disassociate and free you from it. There are so many things I have that I've put up on Amazon or that I've thrown into a box to give away or thrown out, it's amazing to me that I ever thought I needed these things. Videos, DVDs, CDs, sheet music, clothing, picture frames... it's all just stuff. The irony is, I could probably keep all these things fairly easily if I shipped them home or packed them in the car. The stuff I really want to keep I can't: my piano, the love seat my mom gave me. My grandmother's plush, comfy rocking chair.
There's got to be a zen lesson to be found in there somewhere, I just know it.
Comments
You know, I hope, that most eBay bidding activity comes in the last day the auction is open? So it will look like nobody's bidding, then when the auction closes you'll get the message that someone's bought it.
Posted by: pjm | July 21, 2005 08:52 AM
Well done. People can be so flaky! That takes a lot of patience to check through them all!
Posted by: NML | July 24, 2005 02:25 PM