At what point do you sell / throwout

[Fireflyfishing]

Sell!

 

[#1antler]

I have an 18 ft Starcraft fishing boat that hasn't been in the water since 1984 when my dad passed away.

 

[Davyalabama]

I don’t sell much anymore. It’s too expensive to ship. Tried the Facebook thing and what a joke that is.

Until I need room or money, I just let everything sit.

Yep, I built a, ok two, huge tote shelves with casters in the garage. Wow, it has saved so much space and is keeping things neat. Twenty totes on one storage and 16 on another. Thirty-six 72 qt. totes, with eight of those using Remington watertite totes. I took a page out of my wife's book in the pantry and bought some extra large chalkboard labels to label each tote.

I've got stuff that is older than a lot of you. I can still fit in BDU's from almost 44 years ago. My turkey apparel is the original bottomland from 1989, stupid VCR tapes from Will Primos, thought I just had to have it. I killed a bunch before then, and I've killed a bunch since.

 

[Weldor]

I have way to much stuff, Knives, reloading, optics, etc. But have to agree with you guys, shipping is a killer. If you put a good price on stuff the shipping offsets the cheap price. I try to give away some stuff and price the other stuff cheap. It amazes me sometimes no hits on a item worth $200 priced at $75 who knows? I just psted a Lyman turret press with 2 heads for $50 bucks on a local hunting site not one hit weird. The cheap market seems real slow the last year JMHO. No kids so I can't give it away LOL.

 

[Pony Soldier]

At times I find it difficult to find a market for specific items such as pack saddles. The shipping issues become bigger than just sitting on it and letting someone else deal with it when you are gone. I don't purchase many things or change change out things that work. Often it is easier to fabricate what I need than to search for items that almost fill that niche and then have to modify them to fill the bill.

 

[roosiebull]

How do you decide on how long you keep something that you do not use or minimally use before throwing it out or selling? Examples:
(1) I have a Stone Glacier hunting pack that I used once and have not used in 3-4 years. I hate to sell it because "I never know when" I will need or want to use it again...so I hang on to it.
(2) I have 2 Vexilar fish flashers...I keep a second (extra) incase some thing happens to one of them or if I take someone else that does not have one. I haven't used one of them in 2-3 years. I hate to sell one because I know what it would cost me to buy another one new.

I feel like after I just wrote this, I answered my own question on the 2 examples above...time to sell. Thanks for the therapy!

I don’t like selling things, it can be a time consuming pain in the rear (though I have not had any issues on this forum’s classifieds) that is generally what keeps me from selling stuff.

I also don’t like having things around that I don’t use, so I give away a lot of stuff.

I gave a kid 2 Loomis steelhead rods a couple months ago (kid who has been working for my in-laws and I appreciate that he has a work ethic)

I recently gave another kid my prime nexus 4, I thought about keeping it, but I knew that I would never shoot it, and this kid is 14, works on the ocean all summer, and he’s just a really solid kid, and his dad wanted my help finding a bow for him, they live on a property that holds elk almost all year, and he has gotten interested in archery

Gave my exo K2 to my brother in law in October because I didn’t use it enough to keep, but again, I hate selling stuff

I usually sell things when I have something in mind I want to buy, but I don’t look forward to the process

 

[timekiller13]

I inventory my gear every year. Anything that hasn’t seen use in 3 years gets sold.

Guns get a longer pass. But usually after 5 years of little to no use they get moved as well. Unless they are an heirloom or collectors item.

 

[WCB]

My wife and I have started implementing the 2yr rule. We did a cleanout of in general everything in our house for automatic discard, donate or sell. While going through it you had 10seconds to make a choice. Wife would grab something look at me and say keep or gone? If we keep and the item sits for 2 years with no actual reason it goes. For certain things that rule is not applied... The fish flasher would be one of them as I have one I haven't used for two year like my ice auger , but when I do want to use it it is already paid for and worth holding onto. The pack would be dependent upon if I have another one and type of hunting I do.

I have the next two weeks off for paternity leave and there is going to be some sort of clean out happening...I have got the wife to agree to not ask what got tossed as some of her stuff is on the chopping block.