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Craigslist Apathy

by Derek on January 25th, 2012
Craigslist Apathy

I currently have five things I’m trying to get rid of on Craigslist and I’ve been in touch with people for all of them. For some of them I’ve made contact with a couple people, and yet the last time I heard from any of these people was over a day ago. Come on people, I have a bunch of stuff either free or far below its original price. What gives???

Yet on the other side of the coin I had a woman drive to my place yesterday morning just to pick up a small cork bulletin board. It probably originally cost less than the gas and time she spent to get it (I was giving it for free).

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Craigslist Hole

by Derek on January 24th, 2012
Craigslist Hole

My computer is in the living room of my apartment which currently is only illuminated by the built in ceiling light by the door. Yeah, it’s pretty dark in here as I write this. The computer monitor is the only other light in the room. The other light comes from the hallway.

But still, I’m glad I got to give those lamps to someone rather than throw them in the basement and give the building workers to worry about. Now if only those people on Craigslist who said they wanted my other stuff would actually REPLY ALREADY!!!

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Craigslist Free Stuff

by Derek on January 23rd, 2012
Craigslist Free Stuff

I’ve been posting a lot of stuff on craigslist lately. Some of it I’m selling and a lot of it I’m putting it up for free. I haven’t exactly charted the results, but so far it seems that more people going for free stuff are flaking out of the deal and end up dropping communication despite early interest in whatever I’m giving away. Come on, it’s FREE! It’s not like I’m giving away sheets of loose leaf paper. A lot of them I think are very good deals for something that’s free. And yet, many of them still don’t come.

 

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Seller’s Choice

by Derek on January 20th, 2012
Seller’s Choice

I’ve been slowly selling our furniture on Craigslist so that I don’t have to dump it in the basement of our building for one of our building workers to take care of. One of them had apparently Googled me because they asked me if I did photo editing or something. I said I did video editing, and they said that they know people who do music video stuff and that he’d hold onto my info. Then I thought it’d be funny to discriminate against Craigslist buyers based on what came up in their Google results.

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Moving Second Thoughts

by Derek on January 19th, 2012
Moving Second Thoughts

This past week I’ve been taking morning trips to the Post Office with boxes of DVDs or books that I’m shipping to San Diego via media mail because it’s cheaper than having the movers take them. As I lugged the small yet incredibly heavy boxes to the post office I was trying really hard to remember what books were inside of them. I know that I already pruned my bookshelf significantly, but man it’s still a lot of books.

As I was walking I was thinking to myself, that it was time to get a Kindle. I don’t even remember the last book I finished, but I think it’s time for me to stop the collection of books. I know that this move won’t be my last, and that thought especially makes me want to stop buying physical books.

I just realized now that getting free moving boxes won’t be nearly as easy the next time we move. Hmmmmmm…

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Cabinet Conundrum

by Derek on January 17th, 2012
Cabinet Conundrum

Slowly removing unused items from different areas of the apartment is a rather satisfying way of feeling productive while packing for a move. I was making dinner yesterday and thinking about what I could take out of the cabinets like plates that I know I won’t be using etc. Then I was thinking about the cabinet and all the stuff that are merely food components but unto themselves cannot be consumed.

We’re actually just about out of salt, but maybe it’s too close to the end, and I’ll have to either get more or look to see if we have a small container of sea salt. There’s still a fair amount of oil in the container we have and there’re a few pots worth of rice left.

I just hate wasting food so much that it would pain me to even throw out any of these sorts of things. We’ll see how this goes in the coming weeks. Though really most of this is non-perishable, so I’ll probably end up taking a lot of it anyway.

The fridge however…

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Post Office Fail

by Derek on January 16th, 2012
Post Office Fail

When I packed our DVDs and books, there were quite a few boxes of them and the books were by no means light. Then after we got the estimate from the movers we’re hiring, their calculations without the books meant that if we shipped them all media mail then we’d save around $200. Yeah, no small amount.

Last year I shipped several boxes of DVDs to Anna because she was already in San Diego. The first two were very large and when I took them to the post office in Park Slope (first thing in the morning), the woman behind the counter looked at me and asked me how I got there. I was thinking that had I said “by car” then she was prepared to ask me to take them home. She really actually said that she didn’t think they had room for them.

This was also a few weeks before Christmas, which means they were sure to be processing tons of packages. Yet somehow, first thing in the morning they were almost deciding to not take my packages. Seriously WTF?? If they had seriously resisted I would’ve probably said something like “Okay, well I’ll ship it UPS then” and seen how they reacted.

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Packing Clothes

by Derek on January 13th, 2012
Packing Clothes

Actually with my no continuity initiative I’ll probably end up doing some laundry comics because it’s something I forced myself not to do because the characters don’t wear clothes except for the scarf and the very occasional T-shirt.

Yeah, we’re gonna have a lot of winter coats in storage when we go to San Diego. Fortunately, the apartment we’re moving into has a small room that will be perfect for storage! Huzzah!

I’ll miss having the extra pockets though. When I went to visit San Diego it actually got pretty chilly at night time even though it was in the 60s during the day. So my heaviest jacket will stay in storage, but my light to medium will probably still get use. I’m guessing my scarf will stay in storage too.

Kind of sucks because a friend of mine got me a spiffy scarf made to look like an original Nintendo controller. You can bet that I’m wearing that every opportunity I have until I move.

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Packing Philosophy

by Derek on January 12th, 2012
Packing Philosophy

Like most people, I hate packing. It’s actually not that bad for me because I don’t have many possessions other than games and DVDs. About 80% of my clothing fit in one giant duffel bag with wheels, and the rest could probably fit in a carry-on for the airplane. But when it comes to packing everything else my brain tries to find the simplest things.

The most simple are things that are like-shaped such as DVDs and games, but after that I start going for the parts of the apartment which can be completely packed in only a box or two. Failing that I’ll find an area of the apartment that will look very clean after its items are packed. So one of those was the refrigerator, taking magnets and stuff off of it. Another was our coffee table surface which has a sheet of glass, but for decoration Anna put small rubik’s cubes and toys between the table and the glass.

The whiteboard in question has almost never been used because since February 2010 it’s had this drawing on it that Anna made during Setsubun that year. It also has this drawing on it from a year before in February 2009 which is when we moved in.

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Parting Gift Packing

by Derek on January 11th, 2012
Parting Gift Packing

This was actually for my 30th birthday last year. My oldest sister asked me exactly this question. It’s true that my amazon wishlist is mostly games, DVDs and a couple books. My sister then proceeded to get me The Complete Calvin & Hobbes which I’m THRILLED to own.

But I couldn’t help but think of how ironic it was given the nature of her original call. Seriously, this thing weighs at least 20 lbs.

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