When disorder become so excessive in my life, one thing that prevents me to deleting thing is the fact that, for some reason, I’ll could serve again.
For instance, usually, I don’t need of cd’s, but I always think that I need it in the future. It’s thinking like this that keeps me from selling things.
That being said, I was reading, your money or your life, one of my favorite book about personal finance. Joe Domingues and Vicki Robin give me an answer to this problem.
[One] individual realized that he had many possessions that he wasn’t using and no longer wanted, but had been hanging on to because he “just might need them someday.” His creative solution was to sell these belongings and set aside the proceeds to be used to replace any of them he might find himself in need of in the future. Meanwhile, his money was earning interest, his life became simpler, and someone who might really need these items was getting use out of them.
Two month ago, I took a dozens of comic books from my room, I loaded them into my car and spent a little of time driving from used bookstore to used bookstore. After a couple hours work, I earned $100 by selling 8 of ten comics.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. In his book Joe has wrote about as there’s need look into to many different place where put your money.
Thus, I wanted use the money to open a new subaccount at ING Direct, a sort of stuff replacement fund. Once, I’ve sold all my comic book, I repeated the same process with other stuff, cd’s, games, etc, in order that the money earned I could put into the same account, a safeguard against the things I might really need.
Obviously, to make this choice you have to be sure to selling your stuff. After a bit of time is become simply with stuff replacement fund to saving all my money over my new subaccount.
