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I used to think that, then realized it only bothered me up until it was gone. Once it's out out sight I don't care anymore.
If it's something I think will be popular I might stick a £5 price on it just to filter out the people who seem to have a google alert for free stuff on marketplace, then not accept any money for it when they turn up.
I'm not saying give everything away, if it's got some actual value and there's a market for it like bike bits or larger car parts I'll sell it for as much as I can get.
e.g. we gave away some Ikea shelves with a folding desk a couple of months ago, it was probably worth something, but then I'd have to store it in the hallway, which delays finishing decorating it, which delays the next DIY project, which delays getting carpets down on the stairs, etc. At some point holding out for £50 for them wasn't worth it.
I really want to just bin / give away all the CD's that haven't been touched for 10 years, maybe I'll win that argument when we move house. It's already lost me a few hundred quid when she bought enough racks to store ~1000 of them we accumulated between us.
I really want to just bin / give away all the CD’s that haven’t been touched for 10 years, maybe I’ll win that argument when we move house
I have a fair few CDs.
I've not had a CD player for about 10 years...
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I really want to just bin / give away all the CD’s that haven’t been touched for 10 years, maybe I’ll win that argument when we move house. It’s already lost me a few hundred quid when she bought enough racks to store ~1000 of them we accumulated between us.
The second-hand market for CDs is dead. You're looking at pence per disc, if anywhere will take them at all. I shifted a couple of Billy's worth of DVDs to CEX when I moved house, got like £15 for the lot. I was gutted.
I put all my CDs & DVDs into those multi-wallet zip up CD folders. Take up 1/10 of the space now (still use them in my Van cd player).
I've got a box of CDs in the loft. All ripped to MP3 a few computers ago. Don't even own a cd player so no idea why I have them still.
Due to a change in family situation that I'm trying to make the best of I'm quite looking forward to cleaning out a load of crap that's been accumulated over the past 20 years
I spend a lot of time 'recycling' items we dont need. I clean and sell on eBay, Vinted etc if there is a value. If not I give away on Freecycle. Spent the afternoon clean kids Oculus Quest 2 to sell on. I have a one-in-one-out policy, alas I am on the only one in the house who understands the rules 🙂
Most people in my street do similar, eg a skip when they move and the lot goes into it off to a tip. Joking. I dont think there is much I would bin if we moved.
We still buy second hand DVDs! It's great - cheaper than renting stuff off streaming, and less of a faff than sifting through all the streaming services to find out where a film is, only to learn that if it's there at all, it's Not Available In Your Region. Got a 20-film Hitchcock boxset for a tenner recently.
Please do keep giving them away to charity shops. Not the crap stuff though.
So much of this resonates with a specific example being bike bits that are too good to recycle but the faff of eBaying and the challenge of getting to a post office means I haven't sold.
The example above of a posters wife not selling a coat because is was worth £x and they were offered £y hits home. Economics dictates the price is one the seller and buyer can agree on, not the one in the sellers head, and I'm terrible for this... Meaning lots of stuff in the garage that is falling in value as standards move on.
Right... motivated by this... lots to list in eBay next weekend with a 99p start price and no reserve!