OK this is a total exaggeration as I have a couple boxes left. But there was actually quite a thrill in the freedom of selling a ton of stuff that you used to possess. I am in the process of moving back to away (heart is breaking as I write this) and I didn't want to bring back all/any of my furniture (it was fine to bring when I had a moving allowance to come here ... but not to move back)
So I discovered (many years too late!!) the best site .... KIJIJI! As a lady from away we used to do a lot of transactions?!? over Craigslist. But this beast is awesome. I cannot upload things fast enough before people come to buy them. (And I always meet people at my front door especially for small items after poor Tim)
If people don't show up, I sell their items to the next person who does. I run a first come first served auction house. You said you would email me back, but you didn't - gone to the next person. Shoe rack - gone in 1 minute (were they waiting all day for a shoe rack to come up!?). One family came in and bought just about everything I was selling. And paid me for it too!!!! (Mind you most things are being sold for ca. $5 hence the feeding frenzy!)
I still need to sell my kitchen "grab all" (aka all my odds and ends - most never used!) I was given quite a few compliments for my "staging" photos - maybe I have a career here if teaching doesn't pan out.
So as I sit on the floor sans tables and think of the stuff I used to have ... there is something freeing about this crazy situation I am in. New beginnings have to happen as my old ones just left with the last customer!!
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