(Before anybody wonders, NO I AM NOT thinking of doing anything bad/destructive to myself or anybody else.)
I was looking in my closet a few days ago and was thinking that I need to clean it out. So I went through and came up with a dozen items that I want to toss on Ebay.
For some reason I'd been buying old 60s and 70s transistor radios at garage sales and such over the last couple years (electronics/computers is my main special interest) and I finally realized that I have too many. One had to go in the e-waste recycle bin because it was too far gone. I also kept a couple rare radios that I have such as a 1955 Philco T7-126 that is very hard to find.
So now for sale I have four radios, a couple analog ampere meters that I'd bought intending on hooking them somehow to a ham radio power supply (a project that never happened), a 1970s Simpson 160 multimeter that is labeled IBM and which I can't use because it takes an obsolete type of battery, a frequency counter I wanted to hook to a tube ham radio but couldn't, and a couple things I'd bought specifically intending to flip them on Ebay like a couple mid 1970s calculators in their boxes with their AC adaptors and a Heathkit clock I found at a thrift store.
Looking over a workbench loaded with stuff I really had no idea what to do with or what I would do with it once I bought it or that I bought on impulse I feel ashamed that I wasted money on this stuff, and that I bought it in the first place when somebody else might have enjoyed it more than I did. I really don't care about making a profit on it with most of it, I just want to sell it to people who might really want it and use it and enjoy it instead of having it collecting dust in a closet.
And even now I still feel like I have too much stuff in the closet but the stuff I have is very rare or has personal value such as transistor radios owned by relatives who died long ago or stuff from my childhood. I really don't like the whole idea of accumulating stuff.
Thousands of people in California have had everything they ever owned destroyed in wildfires over the last couple years, and there was one guy in Santa Rosa who was a well respected dentist, and his mansion was incinerated in the Tubbs Fire, and a few months later he laid down in the ashes and blew his brains out. He was alive and still had his dentist knowledge and could have easily started his life over somewhere else, but he killed himself because he lost all his stuff.
I just don't like the idea that stuff is worth dying over, and I see people sobbing because they lost all their stuff, and they don't seem to realize that stuff isn't worth being sad over or dying over. I want to be at a point where if all my stuff gets destroyed I can simply replace it, that it has utilitarian instead of emotional value.
I was looking in my closet a few days ago and was thinking that I need to clean it out. So I went through and came up with a dozen items that I want to toss on Ebay.
For some reason I'd been buying old 60s and 70s transistor radios at garage sales and such over the last couple years (electronics/computers is my main special interest) and I finally realized that I have too many. One had to go in the e-waste recycle bin because it was too far gone. I also kept a couple rare radios that I have such as a 1955 Philco T7-126 that is very hard to find.
So now for sale I have four radios, a couple analog ampere meters that I'd bought intending on hooking them somehow to a ham radio power supply (a project that never happened), a 1970s Simpson 160 multimeter that is labeled IBM and which I can't use because it takes an obsolete type of battery, a frequency counter I wanted to hook to a tube ham radio but couldn't, and a couple things I'd bought specifically intending to flip them on Ebay like a couple mid 1970s calculators in their boxes with their AC adaptors and a Heathkit clock I found at a thrift store.
Looking over a workbench loaded with stuff I really had no idea what to do with or what I would do with it once I bought it or that I bought on impulse I feel ashamed that I wasted money on this stuff, and that I bought it in the first place when somebody else might have enjoyed it more than I did. I really don't care about making a profit on it with most of it, I just want to sell it to people who might really want it and use it and enjoy it instead of having it collecting dust in a closet.
And even now I still feel like I have too much stuff in the closet but the stuff I have is very rare or has personal value such as transistor radios owned by relatives who died long ago or stuff from my childhood. I really don't like the whole idea of accumulating stuff.
Thousands of people in California have had everything they ever owned destroyed in wildfires over the last couple years, and there was one guy in Santa Rosa who was a well respected dentist, and his mansion was incinerated in the Tubbs Fire, and a few months later he laid down in the ashes and blew his brains out. He was alive and still had his dentist knowledge and could have easily started his life over somewhere else, but he killed himself because he lost all his stuff.
I just don't like the idea that stuff is worth dying over, and I see people sobbing because they lost all their stuff, and they don't seem to realize that stuff isn't worth being sad over or dying over. I want to be at a point where if all my stuff gets destroyed I can simply replace it, that it has utilitarian instead of emotional value.
