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  • The Great Purge: The 100 item challenge!

    2008-11-24 9:23AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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    I am trying to reduce the contents of my apartment by one-half. It's supposed to be good feng shui, especially for attracting a partner into your life. It also helps align your life for the next great moment. And I need this. I'm not purging to attract a partner though, I'm purging to clean this freaking place up! Yikes! Seven years in West LA yields a lot of crap! I sure have a knack for accumulation.

    I am also trying to liquidate assets I do not need. My goal is to come up with $1000 for liquidating my existing assets, and invest that money directly into my friend's restaurant. Her lenders get an excellent return rate (8% !) and that is much more stable than the stock market.

    I signed up for Scottrade a few weeks back. I've already lost $70. Screw that crap. Now I know how the Baby Boomers feel, the stock market is unnecessarily emotional. I much prefer investing in something I understand (my friend's restaurant) than these nameless faceless companies.

    So purging and money making. So far... I've made $222. It was kind of sad to say good bye to my rollerskates, my dancer pole, and other things that have been unused fixtures in my closets. But if they found their way into my home once, they will find their way in again (when I want them to come in). And I am really loving how the place feels with less crap in it. And yes, it's actually a lot of work for very little money, but it reminds me how hard it is to make a buck from selling your old crap.

    I decided today to post 100 items online between Craigslist and Amazon.com. (And yes, sadly, I have even more items to shed). And each time something sells, I will find something else to sell. So that at all times I am poised to move 100 items out of this place at a time. It took forever. But once I started to post items up, I was hooked.

    By the way, now Craigslist is a lot easier to use because you have to have an account to sell. And reposting a listing is easier.

    Now whether or not people would buy any of the things I've posted remains to be seen...

    Join me in the great purge! Find 100 things in your home that you would be willing to give up.

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  • georgeshaw
    藝術家空間 George Shaw
    留言於2008-11-27 3:37AM [举报]
    I sold a bunch of old Transformers that I hadn't touched since childhood, and made a few hundred bucks. Amazing what collectors will pay for old toys.
  • chrislay
    藝術家空間 Christopher Lay
    留言於2008-11-24 1:59PM [举报]
    Hmm, Pat may be onto something there.  We recently moved to a slightly smaller apartment (no storage closet/room), so we had to shuck a small room full of junk.  Our credo, it's easier to give it away.  The recycle dude started telling us how hard it would be to sell the pile we had for him until we said we didn't want any money.  Suddenly, he liked our crap just fine.  Good luck with your sales.

    The restaurant sounds great!  As for your other stocks, you don't loose or gain until you sell.  I like Warren Buffet's philosophy: buy great companies and hold for the long run.  There are great companies at good prices, but if you watch the prices daily, you will end up with ulcers.
  • rottendoubt
     rottendoubt
    留言於2008-11-24 12:48PM [举报]
    the trick is also not to buy anything (or as little as possible)...
  • musicnote
    musicnote
    留言於2008-11-24 10:37AM [举报]
    Hmm...I'm not sure if I can find that many items to get rid of. Well yes I can find that many things but the question is if I can let go of them. XD

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