DJ Mrs White In The Library With The Lead Pipe (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} djmrswhite) wrote,@ 2008-04-30 07:20:00 |
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The Indiana Jones, He Gotta GO! Plus The Loveseat From "Land of The Giants." It, Too, Gotta GO!
In the ongoing effort to make 2008 the year of purging in this house (and not the kind of purging that was just detailed in fellow LJ-erelysesewell's tale of model-apartment-turned-vomitorium, as entertaining as that was), I've been selling of tons of music to Amoeba, tons of books to Counterpoint, transferring VHS tapes to DVD and generally discarding things that I don't know how to get rid of by bringing them down the street to the Out of the Closet thrift store.
We used to have semi-regular garage sales. We'd net some decent cash from those because our home is one into which a never-ending stream of free, promotional media and items just flows. What am I supposed to do with four promotional one-sheet posters for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?" What am I supposed to do with a talking Iron Man action figure?
Ebay is a hassle. Garage sales involve standing outside in the hot sun and--worst of all--haggling with people. I hate haggling.
Part of me wants to have an inside-our-apartment tag sale of books, music, promo swag, toys, old lunchboxes, dishes, clothes, a vintage AM-radio in the shape of a hamburger that now 5 people have mistaken for one of those "Juno" phones you can buy at Hot Topic. So many things I want out of this house.
It could be a classy affair. I'd make little silver dollar sized pancakes as treats for buyers. It'd be open to just my friends (and by "friends" I mean anyone reading this blog) with cash in hand and a desire to buy awesome things. I have a "Saved by The Bell" board game. Also "Sigmund and The Sea Monsters." I have a box of vintage 8mm porn from the 1960s. I have a Pac Man thermos. I have a Boy George doll.
This is all just a thought. I don't know if a friends-only indoor garage sale is the way to go. But I HAVE TO MAKE THIS HOUSE HAVE FEWER THINGS IN IT.
And while I'm on the subject, my friend Charlotte still wants to sell her big loveseat. Currently it sits in our entryway/living room area because she had no other place to put it. She wants a hundred bucks for it. I think she said she'd take $85 the other day. I posted about this before but there were no takers, only people passing judgment on its perceived attractiveness. One of y'all has to come buy this dang thing:
2 years old from Pacific Design Center, was $800 when new. Very good condition
43" High at Back
42"wide
34" deep from front to back
21" high from floor to seat
in West Hollywood for pickup
In the ongoing effort to make 2008 the year of purging in this house (and not the kind of purging that was just detailed in fellow LJ-er
elysesewell's tale of model-apartment-turned-vomitorium, as entertaining as that was), I've been selling of tons of music to Amoeba, tons of books to Counterpoint, transferring VHS tapes to DVD and generally discarding things that I don't know how to get rid of by bringing them down the street to the Out of the Closet thrift store. We used to have semi-regular garage sales. We'd net some decent cash from those because our home is one into which a never-ending stream of free, promotional media and items just flows. What am I supposed to do with four promotional one-sheet posters for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?" What am I supposed to do with a talking Iron Man action figure?
Ebay is a hassle. Garage sales involve standing outside in the hot sun and--worst of all--haggling with people. I hate haggling.
Part of me wants to have an inside-our-apartment tag sale of books, music, promo swag, toys, old lunchboxes, dishes, clothes, a vintage AM-radio in the shape of a hamburger that now 5 people have mistaken for one of those "Juno" phones you can buy at Hot Topic. So many things I want out of this house.
It could be a classy affair. I'd make little silver dollar sized pancakes as treats for buyers. It'd be open to just my friends (and by "friends" I mean anyone reading this blog) with cash in hand and a desire to buy awesome things. I have a "Saved by The Bell" board game. Also "Sigmund and The Sea Monsters." I have a box of vintage 8mm porn from the 1960s. I have a Pac Man thermos. I have a Boy George doll.
This is all just a thought. I don't know if a friends-only indoor garage sale is the way to go. But I HAVE TO MAKE THIS HOUSE HAVE FEWER THINGS IN IT.
And while I'm on the subject, my friend Charlotte still wants to sell her big loveseat. Currently it sits in our entryway/living room area because she had no other place to put it. She wants a hundred bucks for it. I think she said she'd take $85 the other day. I posted about this before but there were no takers, only people passing judgment on its perceived attractiveness. One of y'all has to come buy this dang thing:
2 years old from Pacific Design Center, was $800 when new. Very good condition
43" High at Back
42"wide
34" deep from front to back
21" high from floor to seat
in West Hollywood for pickup
