Tuesday, July 4, 2023

4th of July 2023

 Last night I listed 10 things, most of them larger things and a couple of the smaller ones, 6 of each. We're slowly climbing out of the "our sales suck" hole. 

This is good because with Craig's List no longer usable and even the electronics swapmeet no longer a thing, I plan to package up things I want to sell into "deals" of $100-$200 each, to sell to Ken. Fortunately a lot of the stuff I consider neat, he also considers neat and so does his camping-nut daughter who's also getting into search-and-rescue volunteering. And if sales are good it's easy to get Ken to shell out an extra hundy for some neat stuff to take home. 

Almost like an old person who "doesn't even buy green bananas any more" I'm thinking in terms of what I won't need any more like, I have enough socks, enough T-shirts, enough shorts, etc. I'd like to pick up another decent pair of sweatpants and a couple more woven shirts, things I can find at Ross or Marshall's so those aren't a problem. I've given up on buying any aloha shirts unless I luck out at one of those discount stores, as you just can't get 'em here. 

I plan to also leave a ton of stuff here, including my bike. I'll need the bike right up to the last minute, and it's a nice bike, nicer by far than Ken's and maybe he'll need it in a pinch. 

Plus leaving a lot of useful stuff like my butane stove, lots of handy household stuff, means I'll have a bit of "leverage" in that if I'm really in a pinch in Hawaii, I can ring up Ken and ask for a few hundred. The chance of this happening is vanishingly small, but in any case it's always good to leave with a real gesture of goodwill. 

It's always better to sell things in-person rather than online, and while I talk a good line about perhaps selling on Ebay once I'm back in Hawaii, ideally I'll never sell online again. I'm all for picking shells, but I could hustle 'em to tourists for cash just like it's the 1970s again and it'd be far less work. Everything online is just plain dying. 

 

 


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