A Mistake?

[sgtmajor]

Hmmm what to do. (Smile)

Since I've basically been off work these past 2 months, I've been cleaning out all my unwanted items from closets, desks, cupboards etc., in an attempt to downsize and tidy things up a bit.

WOW........what a pack rat...can't believe I have...(should say had) so much "stuff."

Now.....I'm at the cupboard containing OLD computer games....what to do. I know I could probably go on e-bay etc., and sell these...but then again, that would take cataloging the items.....my time to box up and ship etc., etc., and frankly......I just don't have the time nor energy to do that.

SO....in the morning, I'm going to bring around the recyclable trash container and do a MASSIVE dump. Some of these were pretty good games as I recall.....but this day and age I just have a "few" favorites...and most of those don't get played that often.

How does one gather so much superfluous junk over the years?

Oh well.....when I pull out stuff and my eyes get big followed by........."WOW....I remember this..............." kerplunk...it goes in the container!!

Cheers!!

[nige]

My wife accuses me of being a hoarder, but I don't entirely agree. I just think that some things will 'come in handy one day'! On the other hand I just cannot get rid of books, which is why I currently have about twelve hundred of them!

[Deleted]

And don't you find that things you've had in your workshop for years and never used are just the things that you need within 24 hours of throwing them away? Happens to me every time

[bhk]

Steve....
For what it's worth I "Ebayed" (just created a new verb) some PC games when we shifted from Canberra two-and-a-half years ago.
Unless you are prepared to sell them for nothing much more than the cost of covering your postage, don't bother.
Only one of them sold and that was a "collectors edition" of Microprose's F-15 II.
The rest went into the rubbish hopper we hired, along with all the other rubbish.

The problem is that modern computers will not easily run old DOS or original Windows games and very few people are prepared to pay for something that they have to go to the trouble of setting up.
Hardly worth the trouble of advertising on Ebay when you have to pay 10% of your income to them.

Dump 'em and save yourself the grief.