just wondering how you force yourself to sell something when you know you really need to, even though you don't want to... I really need to sell some stuff to make some money for moving, but I still haven't been able to force myself to do it yet, despite many efforts to force myself to do it... I am a very stubborn anal retentive old goat, and I am going to just sit here on all my collections like a donkey, unless something forces me to move a little... and I am having all this trouble trying to sell some stuff so I can be closer to the man I love... yes not even love has been able to force me to do it yet...
we Capricorns really are very stubborn old goats... ask the man I love... he's a Capricorn too... so asking him for advice prolly wouldn't help me much... his thing is movies, my thing is games... he has a brand new 60" widescreen LCD HDTV and a brand new Blu-Ray DVD player and 5.1 speaker system to go with it, and he can afford it... he has thousands of movies on VHS, DVD, and now he's begun collecting Blu-Ray movies, in batches of 5 at a time... so he is just like me in my glory days, when spending hundreds of dollars at a time meant nothing to me... and he would never turn loose of any of his movies, even the really outdated ones on VHS, just to get some more movies on Blu-Ray or for any other reason... so how do I force myself to sell something that I really like having around to gather dust with me, but I don't really need?
no way in hell that I'm ever selling my video game collection anytime soon, so that's out... ditto for my gem and mineral collection... and my tigers, and my dragons, and my gargoyles, and my griffins, and my cats, and my dogs, etc...
I tried to force myself to sell my board game collection, but the process of getting them all down out of my attic and dusting them all off just convinced me that there's no way in hell that I'm ever selling my board game collection anytime soon either... so that's out as well... I'm running out of options now...
I often toy with the idea of selling my music collection, but the music market is so bad now, and I could never get what it should be worth for it, nor would I ever be able to replace it all again... when it's gone, it's gone for good... I know that I could rip MP3's off all my CD's and burn them onto disks and then sell all the originals and still be able to keep all the music, but I'm not gonna spend even more money that I don't have to do that... it would be defeating the entire point and just exacerbate the desperate need for alot of cash...
so it seems that my only remaining option is my Hot Wheels collection... and it would make so much sense for me to sell it all, because even though it's become a very adult oriented hobby to collect them, it's still such a childish thing to collect... and I have been collecting them since I was a child... I've already sold off all my originals from childhood, and what's left is everything that I've collected since I started collecting them again in 1998... I have somewhere between 1000 - 2000 different models, and I prolly wouldn't even have to sell them all to get all the cash I need... but I still can't seem to get myself to get started on getting any of them sold yet... instead, I've just been buying more... so this is the dillema that I face now... how do I force myself to stop buying more of the damned things, and start selling them all?
part of the problem is that I still need a few more to complete some of the subsets that I've been working on, and I'd really like to complete them before I start selling them, or it will bother me forever that I never got them... even if I do find a way to force myself to sell them all after I get all the ones I need... there's that word again, trying to trick me into thinking that I really do need more of the damned things, when what I really need to do is sell them all... I know that many of you have experience with this, so what do I do? how do I break the cycle of addiction and just get rid of all this stuff?
I really am at a loss... it all seems so simple, and yet it's proving to be so damned difficult... must... force... myself... to... sell... something... soon...