Stuff

I feel like I'm drowning in 'stuff' at the moment.  The dining room is full of boxes and bags of books and other bits and bobs that are destined to be collected by the local hospice charity shop warehouse tomorrow - I can't wait.  There are 500 plus ex-Greenmetropolis books to go and I know I shall feel much free-er once they've gone. Then I can get on with setting up a sewing corner for myself in the dining room. 

I read an article in the Saturday Telegraph last week that said second-hand booksellers were really booming at the moment as people were looking to buy cheaper second-hand books instead of new ones.  Not in my little neck of the woods they're not!  In the past three months I'd only sold four books on Greenmetropolis - and at approx. £2.50 'earnings' per sale it was no longer worth having the dining room resemble a second-hand book store.  My Amazon sales have not really fared much better - having sold nothing at all since before Christmas.  But at least when I do sell a book on Amazon it is for a reasonable profit.  So, for the time being, I'm quite happy to keep the 400 or so books that I've got listed there.  They all now fit quite neatly into one very large bookcase and so are really no problem at all.

I was going to head out to the shed and have a root around in a couple of stray boxes that are lurking out there -  I've really no idea what's in them, although suspect it is bits of crockery that never made it into the miniscule kitchen storage that we've got in this house - but we've just had a rather ferocious hail storm strike, complete with thunder and lightning.  So I think I'll put off searching through that 'stuff' a little while longer.  I'll go and have a look through the under-bed drawers instead.  I know there's a whole load more 'stuff' just waiting to be sorted out in those.

Comments

[Gill]

I did sell a few books on Amazon last year, but generally I found the profits small and not really worth the effort. I do think the postage puts people off, the books may be cheap anough but the postage can double the price sometimes. I bet second-hand bookshops are doing well though, I can't resist going in if I pass one by. It's very satisfying having a clear out, sometimes you just have to be ruthless!
Have a good week.
Gill x