maeve, I make myself get rid of a pair if I buy a new pair of shoes. I go dig around every so often to see what I haven't been wearing for a while.

I cleaned a couple of kitchen drawers last night and relocated the items that had briefly resided in the spare microwave cupboard (now in the garage for sale). I evicted several kitchen non-starters from my gadget-happy father.

My goal--to finish this job of cleaning my kitchen and clearing the dining area by the time my kids walk in the door tonight (they're getting back from their vacation in Florida. Poor guys--soggiest vacation on record). LATE BREAKING NEWS: a friend visiting her family in the region for a couple of weeks called and is coming over to spend the night tonight. Clean-up goes into high gear as soon as I hit "send."

re: eBay, the main change that Kat made that reassures buyers is to offer a refund under a set of normal conditions. People want to know that if is isn't any good they can return it. Saying "no returns" is like code for "it's junk, I don't want it back if you're dumb enough to risk buying it." People are happier with the process if they know you stand behind it. This change is what makes you more professional, and you assume some of the risk that the buyer doesn't want to take on by themselves that the transaction will be successful.

SRS