Opportunity Cost

If you've ever bought something for a specific use and employed it successfully for that use, then stored it and kept it and moved it and eyed it and moved it again, workshop to basement to barn to storage to yard...think about it.

That item probably owes you nothing at this point, and paying it homage by paying to move it across country is a fool's errand. That thing has done its job and needs to cycle its way along the path. Craigslist or Freecycle come to mind as great avenues of disposal.

The recycle dumpsters and 1-800-GOT-JUNK come next.

Don't try to realize any money at all...don't expend your time and effort but throw your remaining resources into getting the things into someone else's hands.

Wurlitzer 4600 goes to new home

Waiting for the guy's friend now so they can move it out the front door and into the van...

...and it's gone!

To the auction house

Sleigh; Box with contents (Grammy Carter's hats...some of them...); Shelf and backsplash; Door knobs; Stack of old pictures in frames; 1875 box, handlettered but broken; Push sleigh (child's); Child's feather-back Windsor rocker; Wicker planter; Lap boards (drawing); Glass showcase.

Auction: http://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/1149788.html

Offer received, countered, countered...

Accepted.

Closing June 16, God willing and the Creek don't rise...

Off to the SW to track a new teepee.

Make an Offer!

We're eagerly awaiting word from the folks who came through the house on Wednesday last, then came back on Saturday to measure and conjecture with their son-in-law the Master Builder. (I thought that term had been reserved for G*d, but hey...)

We expect to receive an offer on Tuesday afternoon, hopefully a good offer...that is, high enough to consider! As they indicated that they would 'redo the kitchen' and lay oak flooring down in the back room, they will probably expect us to 'pay' for those upgrades out of the price, but we are basically disinclined so to do.

Our Realtor let us know that they will be interested in a 30-day timing on the paper-passing, so we are moving into high gear.

Today we contacted an auction person, who came over immediately and speculated that one of his contacts would handle auctioning the glass display case, the horse-sleigh, and the baby snow sleigh. He also has found someone who will buy ALL of the old shutters from us at $3 per shutter. I figure there are maybe 75-80 shutters. Although that will not be a lot of money, it will clear them out of the barn, which is worth something more to us.

I still have to figure out how to get rid of old cast iron stoves and old file cabinets. Mostly everything else can be shipped to us or taken to Goodwill, if I get out there and sort through it again.

Now that we are 5 months into the new year, I am finally getting work again, in addition to moving labor. And looking for a new house.

But some of it (ALL of it!) is a good time.