We’ve got an old single divan bed that is surplus to requirements.
I was all ready to ring a thrift shop to come and pick it up until I learnt they refuse to take mattresses, which would have meant a trip to the dump to get rid of it. This has prompted me to take a step I’ve resisted for years – putting it on trademe.
I’m full of trepidation because I’m afraid of doing something dumb and/or making things way more difficult for myself than it needs to be. If it ends up being more trouble than simply going to the tip then I’ve already lost. On the plus side, I don’t care how much it goes for as it’s worth less than nothing to me.
My other anxiety is that it will be a distraction to me all week, and what if I end up loving it? As someone at risk of obsessional behaviour, will it be the start of an addiction? Will I end up selling us out of house and home?
I’m not going to put a picture of my trade on here, partly because it’s likely to appear embarrassingly amateur to any experts out there, but also it would feel a bit like cheating. I might ask family members to put it on a watchlist, but getting someone I know to bid on it would be “wrong”, I imagine? Who knows what the etiquette is? Not to mention legality.
To be honest, it may also be from years of regency romance novels, where the only acceptable money to have is that which is inherited, and a self made man is an abhorrence, and likely to have more than a whiff of the shop about him. I realise the stupidity of taking onboard 200 year old snobbery, particularly as if I wasn’t earning my own money I’d be on the breadline, but there it is.
I must confess we have some other items to get rid of, so it’s going to be interesting how this plays out. I’m wary, though.
I will keep you updated.