Best advice of 2007

Whether you make New Year’s resolutions or not, there can’t be many people out there who don’t use the start of a new year as an opportunity to start a new project, kick an old habit or re-evaluate their goals. I’ve trawled through Drop Out Diaries and picked out the best tips since my adventure […]

Getting used to ebay

I have spent most of today reading pages of advice about buying and selling on ebay. There is a lot to get to grips with and it’s not all as simple as you might think.
Take recorded delivery, for example. If you don’t have proof of delivery, you have little recourse if your buyer says that […]

First ebay selling experience

Within a few hours of putting my first item (a DVD) on ebay I started to get offers to buy the thing right away. Initially I responded to these offers in good faith, telling Buyer A what Buyer B had offered and so on. But all the time I was wondering why they weren’t just […]

Letting go

Another suitcase load of books to the charity shop today. I am surprised at how easily I have been able to let go of my books. They were the one thing I have hoarded over the years. It shows how my outlook has changed.
It reminds me of giving up smoking. If you can get to […]

Charity shops

I have started taking clothes, books, odds and ends to charity shops. As I don’t have a car, it’ll take me many trips to trundle everything down.
Charity shops are getting ever more sophisticated in their operations. My local PDSA shop offers free collections from your home with their own branded pink sack, and when you […]

Sold my records today

The record shops I used to go digging in years ago in Camden, Islington and the like have all closed down. The surviving stores mostly huddle together on Berwick Street.
I didn’t get much for my little vinyl collection, but they are off my hands and maybe they’ll find a nice new home. My records are […]