On 5/20/21 10:34 AM, Frank wrote:
On 5/20/2021 10:20 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 5/19/21 11:03 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 20:50:48 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/19/2021 8:45 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 19:06:38 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

AARP magazine has an article about self storage units.Â* I guess as a
society we like out junk and are willing to pay to keep it.Â* The
US has
90% of the storage places in the world.

One in 10 household rent space.Â* Total of 1.9 billion sq. ft.

Average rental is 15.8 months

Six of 10 boomers visit the storage unit one a month

In a recent year. 1550,000 units were auctioned off for non
payment and
abandoned.

As a society I guess we put a lot of effort into keeping crap.Â* I
would
never keep that much and when we moved about 2 1/2 years ago made
many
grips to Salvation Army.
even after moving, I still got rid of stuff.

I used one when we moved.Â* We wanted to de-junkify the house to sell
it.Â* I rented a storage unit and put everything that wasn't absolutely
needed (including my tools) for the few months our house was on the
market.Â* I had a new job 70mi away and was commuting on weekends so
took a pickup load a week to the new place.


When we moved I used Pods.Â* Rented the first one when the house went on
the market and made lots of trips to Salvation Army store.

I moved to Florida in a Firebird and a van with a Uhaul for my tools.
My ex still has a house full of my junk. Her second hubby came with
all of his junk and her parents died leaving all of their junk. The
last time I was up there she just had was just little paths between
piles of junk.
I showed her how to work EBay but she can't part with anything.
Ebay is my way of thinning the junk. If I can get 99 cents it is
better than nothing and I usually make a little on the shipping. (Ebay
lists the retail cost and you get a discount).
That is my contribution to recyclingÂ* ;-)

Except that now, you can't sell stuff on Ebay unless you give them
your date of birth, social security number and submit to
"verification" by them.

I'd sold off lots of my old stuff on Ebay for over 20 years and was
surprised they keep a record of my total sales ($19,000!)

I'm not about to share my identity theft bait info with them so I
guess my selling days with them are over. Hello Craigslist...


I signed up for local buy and sell group on Facebook and readily sold a
bunch of stuff I no longer needed.Â* No charge to do this.Â* People show
interest in something you post and you give them contact info and they
come to you to buy.

I don't do Facebook- I think putting your personal info and picture out
there for all the world to see is just plain a bad idea.

I use a fake identity on Craigslist and a corresponding fake Gmail.
Sales pickups are done right in front of a supermarket in a nearby busy
shopping center during daylight hours only.

Especially when selling something worth a bit, I arrive well before the
buyer, park my car a good distance away and have no more that a few
bucks in my pocket to make change. Afterward, I let them leave first and
don't drive directly home when I leave the parking lot.

For expensive stuff, I meet the buyer in the lobby of the police station.

--
Law-abiding legal gun owners in the U.S. possess about 270 million
firearms and billions of rounds of ammunition. Seriously people, if they
were a problem, youd know it!