Reduce the clutter in your life with possible financial gains
In my home there are numerous items which lead to the what would be known as “clutter”. I am not alone in this regard, as many people tend to have too much stuff they don’t use and probably never will… you are probably one of those people. Having unused items in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, the not so good is when you have run out of room to store it all where it is out of the way and does not detract from usable space where current functional items are kept. This point has been reached by myself as I have a mild case of pack rat syndrome.
I am not crazy enough to save old newspapers in the corner of a room every day until I pass into whatever awaits you after death, but I do have a hard time throwing away anything that I could possible reclaim value from. What I mean by reclaiming value is selling, giving, donating, or using at some further distant date…. which would be fine and dandy except I tend to never get around to those things.
As to why any of you would care, maybe clutter is blogging you down as well. Take a look around how much stuff do you have that is in the way? Ask yourself, do I really need all this stuff. What purpose does it serve? Is my life better having a Sega Game Gear Cartridge of the game: Asterix and the Great Rescue, when the Sega is long gone? Someone else may want that game and be willing to pay you five dollars to have and enjoy it, rather then letting it sit in a box in the closet until the day you die or get evicted.
Now imagine selling all that random crap for a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars…. whatever the hell you can get for it. It is now no longer just junk sitting and rotting, it is now someone else’s junk to deal with while you have added to your resource pool. The few bucks you get per item, if you have as much garbage as I do, should be enough to add a sizable chunk to your yearly retirement savings… or pocket cash. Whatever you do with the proceeds is up to you, even though I would invest them… its better than letting too much crap fill your life.
Most of the “clutter” is stuff I have been meaning to sell forever but never seem to get around to doing. Today the lack of effort is going to change. I have set up a new eBay account, Paypal account, and a new ING Direct Checking account to handle this. Once the checking account is up and running I am going to force myself to start listing at least 5 items a week until I get rid of all the stuff that serves no purpose in this household, be it functional or sentimental.
I challenge any of you with a similar situation to do the same, who knows it might be fun… if not at least your feedback rating on eBay will go up.
