T-Minus 177 days: Another Weekend of Purging

 Whether using PODS or a moving truck, moving items to Florida is expensive. The best approach is to only take to Florida what you really need. Under that theme, we had another weekend filled with purging. We have so much trash that we have to stage putting it out for collection because we can only put out a limited amount each week. And our Market Place is huge. Most groups on Marketplace only want you posting 3 to 5 items per day, but, I have so much that I have been breaking the rules and getting kicked out of some of the groups as a result. Best of all: we have emptied many totes and Tub City is getting lighter and lighter.

My wife and I got married almost 30 years ago and you wouldn't believe all the stuff that we kept from that day. Catalogues from dress shopping, catering notes, wedding cards, and more. I took all of the bridal shower and wedding cards and took pictures of them, then uploaded the pictures to our google drive. That allowed us to keep the pictured digitally and then throw away the physical cards. 

I have a room in the basement that used to be my office. It was then taken over by my youngest son, who is studying to be a carpenter, to use the room as a workshop. We have to get the house ready to sell, so, this became our first room to get "Broom Swept Clean."

BEFORE:

JUST STARTED

PART WAY DONE

ALMOST DONE

FINISHED

My wife also went through many of her items from high school and got rid of most of it. Out of sight, out of mind. Those high school items were stored away in Tub City and forgotten about. 

I put some baseball cards on Marketplace. I researched the selling prices on Ebay, and marked them for sale. Within an hour, someone jumped on them and said they wanted them. But the next morning, he said 'they are worth a lot more and I don't feel right ripping you off.' He was lying. They aren't worth more, he just wanted to get out of having to buy them after he committed to. In fact, most people are interested in buying my baseball cards and then turning around and selling them for the price I have listed - thus, they only want to pay half of what I have listed so they can make a profit. That was today's disappointment. So, I'm going to keep them at the price I want, and then lower the price every month until the cards sell. 

I like to hit the After Christmas Sales every year and stock up on new lights for next year's Christmas. If you hit the sales right, you can usually get a box of lights for under a dollar. Instead of untangling old sets of partially working Christmas lights every year, I use brand new ones. As a result, I have a significant stock of new Christmas lights that I sold on Facebook Marketplace for $1 per box. I probably didn't make much money on the sale, but the lights are now out of my house and has freed up two totes.

Most of the weights from the gym are sold too. There is still some gym equipment, but that is going to be a lot harder to get out of the gym and sell because they are big and heavy. 

We continue pushing forward in this monumental chore. We have only 177 days left to get it all done!