Tips for selling all my belongings!

Tuomas · Thu 10/07/2008 22:37:07

Hiya. I was playing with the idea of selling everything except for my guitar, my sleeping bag and the tent and basically taking off. I'd be taking the first plane out of the country, and basically finding a place somewhere in this God forbidden world where I'd play my guitar, then move on. Buying food as time passes and perhaps even looking for a job, hitch hiking around the country or into another. I wouldn't consider it an impossible option.

But a problem arises. People might actually want to persuade me not to do it. So of course, the best way to do this would in all quietness and rather quickly. Would you happen to know a way of selling a whole house empty and getting a nice price for what ever I have, say, a table, a computer, a bed, a bookshelf full of books plus a vinyl player and a wide variety of cds and vinyls, all that stuff? I wonder, are there people in this world that are willing to buy the whole house empty?

EldKatt · Thu 10/07/2008 22:59:08

I reckon it'd take a while to sell it all off.

You could just leave your stuff, and compensate for the economic loss through prostitution. You only live once.

Inkoddi · Thu 10/07/2008 23:11:52

Dibs on your dixieland jazz CD box!

BOYD1981 · Thu 10/07/2008 23:14:24

will you also be selling your girlfriend?

evenwolf · Thu 10/07/2008 23:36:17

http://helsinki.craigslist.fi/

Doesnt look like Finland uses this site too too much, unfortunately.

Tuomas · Fri 11/07/2008 10:06:11

Quote from: BOYD1981 on Thu 10/07/2008 23:14:24
will you also be selling your girlfriend?

She's not something I own, sorry.

Tuomas · Thu 17/07/2008 14:28:20

Ok, well, I guess it's time to put this back ont he table. are you sure you don't know any firm or so, that would by everything and sell it forward? I don't have much reason not to at the moment, but if I would sell these things, I'd need to get rid of everything at the same time and rather quickly.

Andail · Thu 17/07/2008 15:03:36

Any local company that deals with used furniture or antiquities, or an auction house, or even a company buying decendate estates, would probably agree to buy the lot for a low sum.
Then again, carefully selling the stuff piece by piece, to the right buyers, will give you much more money.

If this is important to you for some sort of spiritual fulfilment (the liberation from worldly possessions), then go ahead. If it's for financial reasons, then you should reconsider. The stuff you own is probably not worth more than a few weeks' work at some pub, and it's bound to hold a sentimental value much larger than that. Maybe not now, but some time in the future you might suddenly miss those old vinyls.

Esseb · Sat 19/07/2008 15:18:03

Honestly, Tuomas, if you're so afraid of people being able to persuade you out of doing this, you may not be as motivated to do this as you may think. If you really want to do this, then do it, but at least stand up for your own decision.

Then again, your plan really does seem ill-considered and if I were your friend or family I too would try to persuade you not to do this.

Ubel · Sat 19/07/2008 18:31:56

Quote from: Esseb on Sat 19/07/2008 15:18:03
Honestly, Tuomas, if you're so afraid of people being able to persuade you out of doing this, you may not be as motivated to do this as you may think.

It's not really that simple. No matter how strongly you believe in your idea, there's always something people can use to talk you out of it.

Of all the people I know Tuomas is probably the only one I could imagine doing something like this and surviving it. Again, good luck if you end up choosing this path.

Radiant · Sun 20/07/2008 12:01:43

Perhaps you should contact This Guy.

Well, that's not really "quiet and rather quick" though. Then again, I'm not sure you can make a change like this in a quiet and quick fashion, other than by just running off one night which of course won't net you any money.

Here's a possibility: either find somebody you really trust completely, or failing that, hire a notary because that's what notaries are for, and have him do the sales after you've already left, depositing the money in your account.

Note that friends and family, if they really desperately want to track you down, can probably do just that with the power of t3h interwebs.

Play_Pretend · Tue 22/07/2008 12:51:45

I would say Craigslist or Ebay. I don't envy the thought of living off a guitar, but I completely respect you wanting to reinvent yourself and explore, and I can tell you that you can ignore the people who tell you it's not possible to cut and run.

A week before I turned 18 (absolutely true story), my life was wrecked, losing my home, friends and believe it or not, rapidly rising acting career in Syracuse, all because my family moved to Texas. It broke me emotionally. So at 19 I cashed the remains of a student loan my folks had gotten for me and disappeared with $18,362.69 in cash. I ran all over the US for 7 months, until my naivete at spending too much ran me broke and I went back to Texas (hotels and taxis and buses and airfare ain't cheap, and I was stupid about it). But it was a blast while it lasted.

Since I gather you're not trying to disappear completely (just pull the Bandaid really fast on your friends and family), it makes things a lot easier. They'll probably beg you to come back at first, but eventually, if you don't cave and keep explaining why you had to do it, they'll come to accept it. Or they won't. But this isn't about them. No one's going to live your life for you, and no one can judge you if you don't allow them to.

Anyways, good luck with your sales, and I hope you make it.