The 1st Great Comic Book Purge
After work, I had planned to work out, but the house was in such disarray, I needed to do some cleaning. I started in my comic book room/office. After some dusting, I tried in vain to put the comic books in a semblance of order. Since comic books have almost exclusively come in with none going out, the room is pretty messy by nature. So, beyond dusting, I started going through boxes to see which ones I could purge.
One of the Facebook groups I belong to is a comic book group. A recurring topic of discussion is often how they favor the old comics versus the new storylines. I went through four long boxes of comics in the course of four hours and managed to purge about one and a half long boxes-worth of comics. The majority of them are newer comics, I found. I just don't have the attachment to them like I do the older ones, I find. I also found that I have many duplicates. When I travel and find a comic shop, I'll often hit the dollar bins to just find stuff to read on the trip. These duplicates tend to pile up too.
So I pulled roughly 450 comics. I'd say about 400 of them are relatively new (within the last three years or so) and at $2.99 to $3.99 a comic, that's a lot of money I've spent. It actually made me almost nauseous to think about it.
My plan is to take them to Half-Price Books tomorrow to sell them, but I'm sure the amount I'll get will be miniscule in comparison to what I paid for them. Still, it's recycling them in a way. After I pulled out the comics, I went through my DVDs and purged about 30 movies to get rid of as well as several books from the bookshelf.
I have about 18 more long-boxes to go through at some point. I seriously need to organize them first, but that's a large project in itself, I think. I will say that it does feel good to get rid of some them.
One of the Facebook groups I belong to is a comic book group. A recurring topic of discussion is often how they favor the old comics versus the new storylines. I went through four long boxes of comics in the course of four hours and managed to purge about one and a half long boxes-worth of comics. The majority of them are newer comics, I found. I just don't have the attachment to them like I do the older ones, I find. I also found that I have many duplicates. When I travel and find a comic shop, I'll often hit the dollar bins to just find stuff to read on the trip. These duplicates tend to pile up too.
So I pulled roughly 450 comics. I'd say about 400 of them are relatively new (within the last three years or so) and at $2.99 to $3.99 a comic, that's a lot of money I've spent. It actually made me almost nauseous to think about it.
My plan is to take them to Half-Price Books tomorrow to sell them, but I'm sure the amount I'll get will be miniscule in comparison to what I paid for them. Still, it's recycling them in a way. After I pulled out the comics, I went through my DVDs and purged about 30 movies to get rid of as well as several books from the bookshelf.
I have about 18 more long-boxes to go through at some point. I seriously need to organize them first, but that's a large project in itself, I think. I will say that it does feel good to get rid of some them.