Books, books, with nowhere to go!
Because my brain needs a vacation and because I revel in decluttering, I undertook a mission to clean out my closet. I also decided to pull out my box full of TENNIS magazines from five years ago. I had saved them up to eventually cut out pictures of my favourite players. I did cut the pics out a couple years back but for some reason I held on to the magazines. Over the weekend I had an epiphany and realised that I honestly did not need to keep all those magazines because I am never going to actually read up on tennis techniques to use when I play. Besides, the magazines took up a lot of room in the closet.
I ended up finding a lot of old stuff while cleaning out the magazines. Specifically an A+ paper I wrote for my Asian Civ class senior year of college that I had been searching for weeks! And just random stuff from journalism class, papers I had forgotten about. Blast from the not-so-distant past! But apart from some of the papers I'd written in college, I also found a more disheartening accumulation.
Books. Books I had bought for my journo classes in college, which I never read. I mean, come on! I was taking five classes during a semester and the profs expected us to read a 300-page biography on Ben Bradlee? OK, I started reading that but then homework for my other four classes called. Not to mention reporting duties for the college paper. And reporting for my 10 page article for class. I have all these books about famous editors and books by famous journos and I have no idea what to do with them. And after digging through more boxes in my closet, I found textbooks that I left unsold right after college, and now I can't sell them because these are old OLD editions and no one wants them.
Well, I'm sure a poor college student wouldn't mind the old editions but none of the online buyback sites are clamouring for them.
Hmm. Maybe I can donate the books at the library. Just a sudden thought that came to mind. But I would love to make some money off these books. So, dear f-list. Do you have any idea where I can sell these books? I've looked up local bookstores but I'm not sure if I want to do an online thing or lug them to a shop. At this point, I just want to get rid of them. Most of these are books I know I will never read.
Also, if you would like any of them, let me know. I mean, who wouldn't want to read about Jim Bellows, the guy who "saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from dullness and complacency"? ;)
But seriously, if you want them, let me know. I really have no use for them. I'm kind of regretting not selling them right after school ended. At this point, I don't even mind selling them for $5 or something. (Mainly because the old edition texts are not worth much AT ALL.) But the biogs are all in excellent condition (mainly from hardly ever being opened) and they are basically brand new.
I sound like I'm advertising on Amazon Marketplace. I was entertaining the idea of putting the books up there but I don't want to have to wait five years for someone to decide "AH YES. I want to read Ben Bradlee's biography. Let me see if someone is selling a cheap copy on Amazon Marketplace today." So...that's the trouble with that idea.
Anyway. This has been a really long post about nothing. Decluttering is supposed to destress me. Instead, it's making me overthink things. SIGH. Such is life.
I ended up finding a lot of old stuff while cleaning out the magazines. Specifically an A+ paper I wrote for my Asian Civ class senior year of college that I had been searching for weeks! And just random stuff from journalism class, papers I had forgotten about. Blast from the not-so-distant past! But apart from some of the papers I'd written in college, I also found a more disheartening accumulation.
Books. Books I had bought for my journo classes in college, which I never read. I mean, come on! I was taking five classes during a semester and the profs expected us to read a 300-page biography on Ben Bradlee? OK, I started reading that but then homework for my other four classes called. Not to mention reporting duties for the college paper. And reporting for my 10 page article for class. I have all these books about famous editors and books by famous journos and I have no idea what to do with them. And after digging through more boxes in my closet, I found textbooks that I left unsold right after college, and now I can't sell them because these are old OLD editions and no one wants them.
Well, I'm sure a poor college student wouldn't mind the old editions but none of the online buyback sites are clamouring for them.
Hmm. Maybe I can donate the books at the library. Just a sudden thought that came to mind. But I would love to make some money off these books. So, dear f-list. Do you have any idea where I can sell these books? I've looked up local bookstores but I'm not sure if I want to do an online thing or lug them to a shop. At this point, I just want to get rid of them. Most of these are books I know I will never read.
Also, if you would like any of them, let me know. I mean, who wouldn't want to read about Jim Bellows, the guy who "saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from dullness and complacency"? ;)
But seriously, if you want them, let me know. I really have no use for them. I'm kind of regretting not selling them right after school ended. At this point, I don't even mind selling them for $5 or something. (Mainly because the old edition texts are not worth much AT ALL.) But the biogs are all in excellent condition (mainly from hardly ever being opened) and they are basically brand new.
I sound like I'm advertising on Amazon Marketplace. I was entertaining the idea of putting the books up there but I don't want to have to wait five years for someone to decide "AH YES. I want to read Ben Bradlee's biography. Let me see if someone is selling a cheap copy on Amazon Marketplace today." So...that's the trouble with that idea.
Anyway. This has been a really long post about nothing. Decluttering is supposed to destress me. Instead, it's making me overthink things. SIGH. Such is life.