Guides
Practical, task-oriented help for the jobs that come before selling anything: downsizing, clearing a house, emptying a storage unit, and deciding what is worth the effort.
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Where to start when there is too much stuff
A house full of possessions is not one job, it is a few hundred small decisions. This is the order that keeps you from making them twice.
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Clearing an estate: the first few days
What to do before anything is sold, donated or thrown out, and why the order matters more than the speed.
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Sorting a storage unit without paying for it twice
A storage unit is a monthly bill attached to a pile of decisions you have not made yet. Here is how to empty one deliberately.
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Selling used furniture without the runaround
Photographs, measurements and pickup logistics decide whether furniture sells. The price matters less than most people think.
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Selling used clothing and shoes
Clothes sell by size, brand and condition, in that order. A good photo of the label saves ten messages.
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Sorting a record collection: the fast pass
Most of a collection is worth very little and a few records are worth a lot. The skill is separating them without listening to all of them.
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Identifying china before you sell it
The backstamp tells you the maker and the pattern. Without it, a set of plates is just a set of plates.
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Sorting a bookshelf quickly
Books are heavy and mostly worthless. A twenty-minute pass per shelf finds the few that are not.
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Photographing stuff for sale
Good photos are not about a good camera. They are about light, framing and photographing the flaws nobody wants to photograph.
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Before you recycle a computer or phone
A drive you did not wipe is a copy of your life in somebody else's hands. Deleting files is not wiping.
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