So, have to start somewhere.
My name's John. I'm 46 (will soon be 47), and I'm going through a divorce. A couple of months ago, I moved into a small 1 bedroom apartment from the 3br shared home I've lived in for the past 6 years of a 17-year marriage.
Never move out of your house in Texas in August.
I didn't think I had that much stuff, but my move took 12 hours, and required 4 pickup truckfuls to haul all my stuff. Most of it is just bulk: record albums. Books. Video Tapes. Boxes and boxes of them, accumulated over the last 30 some years of being a grownup.
Even though I spent tons o'money on my collections, none of it is worth anything. These days you can't give away vinyl LP's. Books, forget about it, they take up room, and is usually only of value to whomever bough them in the first place. Plus, the Kindle is taking over big-time.
So. My lease here run out next August. My plan is to try to get rid of all the worthless stuff I have (with a few notable exceptions), and the next time I move I want to be able to pack a few small boxes of stuff, throw it in my car, and go.
Within the last couple of months, I've gone from a collection of about 950 books down to around 80. All of the extra books were sold to Half Price Books here in College Station TX, for anywhere from $0.12 a book to $0.22 a book, depending on what it actually was. (That's about $100, for a collection of books I probably paid a total of close to $9000 for over a 30-year period).
There are other collections, and other ways to ditch my material possessions, so stay tuned! --JB
