Packing Up

e-bay, the charity shop or the skip?

(originally posted: Thu - February 19, 2004 at 10:53 AM)

We are due to exchange on the house this week with a view to moving on the 12th March. Over the past few months, Dominic has been becoming an e-bay super user by selling lots of our possessions. It has proven rather fruitful with regard to recycling certain items for cash and Dominic has become a close friend and confidant of our local postmaster. You never know when being able to recite how much it costs to send a 10 kg parcel to The Orkney Islands will come in handy.

Other items fall into the St Peters Hospice bracket. If you happen to be passing the Clifton branch, take a moment to gaze at the window display and count how many pieces you recognize. I do not know if St Peters have received many Roller Blades, Ski Boots or Ab Crunchers in the past but they will certainly draw in the more active customers. By the way, if you hurry, Dominic's Hugo Boss dinner jacket will be on one of the rails. Great bargain for someone, but funny considering we have a Black Tie do in a few weeks time! He does like to stand out in a crowd as we all know, so now is his chance.

The third great beneficiary of our stuff is the Bristol Dump. Even with objects that were too shoddy to take to the charity shop and not viable for recycling Dominic still found a way re-homing them. In the process of throwing stuff into the dump, Dominic was often interrupted by the cries of the refuse official as he ran towards him shouting "NOoooooo". And thus a new home was found in their portacabin for all sorts of wacky items.