After sleeping on it and then consulting my Wise Counselor (wife), I resolved (well.. she told me) to just slap the whole darn lot up on ebay. Forget the sorting and labeling, just get it out there. That even ended up taking too long, but at least I was able to move on to other things. But I couldn’t help thinking that I’d been bitten by the bug that causes everyone everywhere to keep things they don’t need for years and years and years – “I can’t throw this away, what if its worth something one day!” Sure, everything has value to someone, and ebay makes that far to easy to discern. But I could have profited much more this weekend by either getting the house on the market, or doing some work for some clients, or even taking a nap. I ain’t going to get rich based off of the stuff in the attic, and even if I was, at this point I’d rather not know about it. It feels much better to give it away or throw it in the trash – especially when that trash is the Wake County Convenience Center down the street where you can throw just about anything in this big dumpster then they press the button and reduce it all to the size of a peanut – SWEET!

So GI Joe, thanks for the good times, but you really ruined my weekend. For your sake, I hope the person who buys you on ebay doesn’t throw you in dumpster one day.

My new business is called Tiji Web Development. More on that name, and the website, will be forthcoming!