The dog days of August seem to be working against we de-clutterers. The thread even fell off the bottom of the page!

I ran errands this morning and let my curiosity take me into several antique/collectible/whatnot stores that are a few blocks from here. In the general scheme of "familiarity breeds contempt," I drove past these for ages, didn't even realize they were all there. Anyway, I wasn't tempted by most of this stuff, and the stuff that was interesting I already had one so I walked past it. I won't offer to sell these folks stuff because they'd give me nothing for them and then mark them up to the price they hope to get. I'll keep up with eBay.

And hey, if I can throw the last couple of year's worth of wine corks that accumulated in a pretty casserole in the kitchen (no synthetics!) into a box and sell them for $5, you know there's still hope for this de-clutter regimen I'm trying to follow! Seriously! (At the rate of a ~ 1 bottle a week minus the synthetic corks, I came up with 65 corks. One of the kids said "Don't throw them away--people buy them on eBay!" It was almost a joke to do the search, but yup, craft people and people who fish buy corks online!)

This listing one item a day is slowly building up the coffers. I have five items active right now, four have bids, and I average between $5 and $10 per listing. Doesn't take long, I don't do a full-fledged FrontPage listing for little stuff, but I can write out enough quick html when I do the listing that they include a couple of photos.

SRS