[Milsurplus] Stuff

[Don Merz]

Likewise. I am currently unemployed (some unlucky
Indian now has my job and I wish his family well when
he has his early heart attack). Anyway, this has given
me time to sort down all the flotsam and jetsam so
that it can be sold. What a job. Check me out on eBay
under DSM-PGH. 

I have probably 3-400 books here that I am selling
off--much good stuff but duplicates for me or ones
that I will never read or refer to. I started selling
them 1 by one. But the BS busy-work of describing and
listing and packing and mailing hundreds of books
started to get to me. Now I am grouping them by topic
and selling 3-4-5 in one auction. 

I find that 30-50 eBay auctions running at one time,
all the time is close to a full time job (though I
know of people who do much more). But I find it
difficult to maintain that pace.  

And the pile grows once you start looking around. You
start off with a small box of something that you want
to get rid of. Then you think "wait, I have more of
those stored over there." So you go to get them all
together--always finding other, unrelated stuff that
also needs to be disposed of--and finally you say to
yourself "How the hell did I ever accumulate all of
these?"

That happened to me with Simpson 260 VOMs. I decided
to keep the two that I use routinely and sell the
rest. So I started digging them out from under
workbenches, out of boxes on shelves and I soon had 11
meters sitting in front of me. What was I thinking?

I expect lots of folks can tell similar tales.

73, Don Merz, N3RHT


--- telegrapher at att.net wrote:

> About 6 years or so back i built a 10 X 10 storage
> shed out in the back 
> yard, for the lawnmower, BBQ set and other stuff
> necessary to maintain 
> the property.  Well, that stuff resides on the back
> porch and the shed 
> is full of "my stuff" in order to keep the majority
> of it out of the 
> house and garage.  I've pretty well stuck to that
> except for overflows 
> into the spare bedroom, my hamshack which continues
> to absorb more items 
>   and the garage which cannot do what it is supposed
> to do except for 
> holding more of my "stuff".
> 
> I need to replace the floor in the shed due to a
> variety of reasons but 
> in cleaning it out i wonder how in the world i could
> possibly put so 
> much "stuff" in one building and still get in and
> out of it.  I've 
> uncovered manuals and other items that i didn't even
> remember having.  I 
> spread 2 big tarps out in the back yard, they are
> loaded, and the back 
> porch and side yard to that are also full of boxes. 
> I've only emptied 
> about 75% of the building so far.  Wish a lot of you
> folks were close by 
> so you could come over and help dispose of this
> material.  If i started 
> today selling it off i might be done by the time i
> fade out of the 
> picture which i hope is (according to family
> history) about 20 years 
> down the road.
> 
> Keep watching for a couple of pages of paper that i
> need to move which 
> includes APS/APN/ARN manuals as well.
> 
> To much stuff.  Do you ever wonder how much money
> you've got tied up in 
> "stuff" out in the shed/garage?  It's becoming more
> evident all the time.
> 
> Larry
> W0OGH
> 
>
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