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<p>[QUOTE="andrew289, post: 268544, member: 6463"]2 years ago I was in a similar position. </p><p> </p><p>I looked around the house one day and saw piles and piles of stuff. In my youth, I had collected coins, stamps, comics, baseball, football, hockey cards. I decided to clean house. I set up an ebay account and slowly went throug each pile of clutter. I kept the primo stuff for me and as I culled it out, I repackaged and indexed it so that now I know what I have. The other stuff ..which was about 90% of the clutter went up on the ebay auction block. </p><p> </p><p>I started selling on ebay and the rest is history. Over the last 2 years, I've manged to streamline my collecting and focus in on what was really important. All of the other fringe stuff has been sold. Today, I'm $27,000 richer (just from the stuff sitting in piles) and much beter off for the purge. My collection is more focused with higher grade coins and I even found myself an extremely profitable side business of selling online which pays the mortgage and pays for my kids college tuition. </p><p> </p><p>If I didn't have that one moment when I looked around and said to myself...wtf is all this stuff? I wouldn't have been able to achieve all that I have. Selling the clutter can change your life. It has for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="andrew289, post: 268544, member: 6463"]2 years ago I was in a similar position. I looked around the house one day and saw piles and piles of stuff. In my youth, I had collected coins, stamps, comics, baseball, football, hockey cards. I decided to clean house. I set up an ebay account and slowly went throug each pile of clutter. I kept the primo stuff for me and as I culled it out, I repackaged and indexed it so that now I know what I have. The other stuff ..which was about 90% of the clutter went up on the ebay auction block. I started selling on ebay and the rest is history. Over the last 2 years, I've manged to streamline my collecting and focus in on what was really important. All of the other fringe stuff has been sold. Today, I'm $27,000 richer (just from the stuff sitting in piles) and much beter off for the purge. My collection is more focused with higher grade coins and I even found myself an extremely profitable side business of selling online which pays the mortgage and pays for my kids college tuition. If I didn't have that one moment when I looked around and said to myself...wtf is all this stuff? I wouldn't have been able to achieve all that I have. Selling the clutter can change your life. It has for me.[/QUOTE]
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