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A few years ago I had to clean all my crap out of my parents house. I put them in boxes unlabelled and waited a year - I couldn’t even remember what was in them

A few years ago I had to clean all my crap out of my parents house. I put them in boxes unlabelled and waited a year - I couldn’t even remember what was in them so went straight to the dump and heaved them in. Absolutely great bit of advice.

npteljes 4y ago
Second hand markets are also great for these. I recently sold all of my electronics online. I offered them for cheap so that I can get rid of them faster, and even the most worthless piece of junk, an 12+ yrs old, beaten up cheapo laptop with a 32 bit CPU found its new owner for some pocket change. Not all junk can be sold though, of course. But I think it's worth considering, maybe someone else will find them useful and then they can live on a bit longer.
- ghaff 4y ago
  Selling stuff is an absolute PITA. There used to be people who would sell for you on eBay for a cut. AFAIK, that's all gone. I could never be bothered to sell the huge amount of mostly fairly low dollar stuff I don't want. Friends I know who have moved say even yard sales aren't worth the bother. I have stuff like a big pile of laserdiscs that someone would probably like but just not worth the effort to sell.
  - npteljes 4y ago
    I agree, it's a lot of extra effort. Can you elaborate a bit on how even the yard sales weren't worth the bother? I imagine that I'd basically sell everything for the first person who wants it, for whatever price.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      Pretty much going by what a friend who was moving across the country told me. I imagine I'd still give it a shot if I were going to otherwise just chuck a bunch of stuff in a dumpster. And I have had some luck leaving basically crap for free at the edge of the road. I'm on a fairly busy road but in a semi-rural location so I'm not going to get that much traffic.
  - Anthony-G 4y ago
    Selling is definitely a pain. I usually donate unwanted items to local charity shops. For more specialist or other items they won’t take, I prefer to give them away on freecycle.org (or a local equivalent). Friends tell me that my ridiculously large vinyl record collection (that I only really listen to a small sub-set of) would be worth a lot on Discogs but I find it hard to motivate myself to actually do it.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      In my case, one of the things I have is a big stack of laserdiscs. Someone would probably pay OK money for them. But no way am I going to sell them one by one on eBay and even boxing them all up as a take it or leave it sale is almost certainly more trouble than what I would get for it all. And out where I live something like freecycle is very thin. Many things are worth something--maybe even a bit more than something--to the right person but making the connection to that person is often more trouble than it's worth.

npteljes 4y ago

Second hand markets are also great for these. I recently sold all of my electronics online. I offered them for cheap so that I can get rid of them faster, and even the most worthless piece of junk, an 12+ yrs old, beaten up cheapo laptop with a 32 bit CPU found its new owner for some pocket change. Not all junk can be sold though, of course. But I think it's worth considering, maybe someone else will find them useful and then they can live on a bit longer.

ghaff 4y ago
Selling stuff is an absolute PITA. There used to be people who would sell for you on eBay for a cut. AFAIK, that's all gone. I could never be bothered to sell the huge amount of mostly fairly low dollar stuff I don't want. Friends I know who have moved say even yard sales aren't worth the bother. I have stuff like a big pile of laserdiscs that someone would probably like but just not worth the effort to sell.
- npteljes 4y ago
  I agree, it's a lot of extra effort. Can you elaborate a bit on how even the yard sales weren't worth the bother? I imagine that I'd basically sell everything for the first person who wants it, for whatever price.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    Pretty much going by what a friend who was moving across the country told me. I imagine I'd still give it a shot if I were going to otherwise just chuck a bunch of stuff in a dumpster. And I have had some luck leaving basically crap for free at the edge of the road. I'm on a fairly busy road but in a semi-rural location so I'm not going to get that much traffic.
- Anthony-G 4y ago
  Selling is definitely a pain. I usually donate unwanted items to local charity shops. For more specialist or other items they won’t take, I prefer to give them away on freecycle.org (or a local equivalent). Friends tell me that my ridiculously large vinyl record collection (that I only really listen to a small sub-set of) would be worth a lot on Discogs but I find it hard to motivate myself to actually do it.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    In my case, one of the things I have is a big stack of laserdiscs. Someone would probably pay OK money for them. But no way am I going to sell them one by one on eBay and even boxing them all up as a take it or leave it sale is almost certainly more trouble than what I would get for it all. And out where I live something like freecycle is very thin. Many things are worth something--maybe even a bit more than something--to the right person but making the connection to that person is often more trouble than it's worth.