Goodbye to stuff

Over the past 6-9 months I've been involved in two house cleaning "projects" of a sort. When my parents sold their house, I had to take everything I ahd stored in the attic and either get rid of it or take it with me to Medford. Two of those things were my boxes of comics and tapes.

Since then I've been listening to the old tapes one last time and either throwing them out (mostly) or deciding to keep them (not so much.) There's no market for selling them, so that wasn't an option.

I finished yesterday, listening to the last one, Slayer's Decade of Aggression Live, part 2 (which I kept). I probably ended up keeping between 25-50, and got rid of the rest, which was about maybe 600-700. That's a lot of albums to listen to. I'd been going through a lot of them at work, which was handy for knowcking off a few a day at least.

Then there's the comics. I've been reading them all one last time and then selling them on Ebay if possible, or just throwing them out if not. With the advent of trade paperbacks, and the fact that I don't have anything considered really collectible, there isn't much of a market for these either. But moreso than old cassettes. I did manage to sell almost everything, as I was selling them in lots, by title. But I didn't get much in the way of cash.

I'm not technically done yet, but I will be done possibly today, but definitely by tomorrow. I'm just reading through the last of my X-Force titles now and have about 10 or so left. Then they'll go up on Ebay and in a week I'll be entirely done.

So, goodbye to those little bits of my past.

Next up will be my books. This will take a lot longer and be more difficult. I'd keep them all if I had the space, but I don't. And I've realized that if I donate them to the library, I should still be able to read them whenever I want; it'll just be like someone else is holding them for me. But, at any rate, right now I've got three full boxes just sitting in my room of books I have to decide whether to keep or not, and the only way to do that is to reread them. (On top of whatever new books I'm also reading. You can see why this may take a while.)
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P.S. My next blog will be my 100th. Oh, the pressure. I feel like I need to come up with something good.
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P.P.S. Today's date: 6/6/06. Happy Satan day!