junk sale

JUNK SALE
Food container question from yesterday was answered in the same comments section, FYI.
Yesterday over at http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html there was an article on the future value of antiques falling significantly. As in, too much money creation sent extra dollars into collectibles and as the crash furthers everyone beats you to the punch and sells their collectibles before you can and you sell for nickels on the dollar, if you can find a buyer. This gives us poor types a smug sense of satisfaction that we bought wheat and ammo which is rising in value as well as cost. Look, you sneer in a twisted and ugly veneer of class hatred, that stupid craphole bought a late Victorian writing desk for ten thousand bucks and now he can't sell it for two hundred bucks since there is a glut on the market and the Japanese won't even buy them. HaHaHa. Well, maybe you wouldn't do that, but I would. When people have too much money that they have to buy collectibles than nature intended that they lose it. Because dollars to donuts they have a morally questionable job anyway. Or are outright crooks. I'm feeling so caring and delighted today I won't even start a discussion about civil servants and their pay. Ain't I swell?
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Now, collectibles are an easy target for falling value. But let's move a bit past that. What else should you sell now before everyone else does? Plenty of things that have value now will become worthless or inoperable or will become a glut on the market soon. You need to strike while the iron is hot. Beat the rest of the desperate. I think the first target is your vehicle. Okay, if not that than any extra vehicles. Look, I know that you all love your cars. You got your first feel-up in the back seat of mommies Pinto or Gremlin and the toxic scent of formaldehyde still arouses you. And plenty of unnamed survival sites seem to think you can only drive out of the other side of the apocalypse. To me the infatuation with cars by most people in this country is as irrational as me plucking and saving my first pubic hair. Get over it already. Your car will be a fond memory soon. Oh, you can leave it in the front yard after it runs out of gas but that would seem as painful as keeping pictures of the ex-wife around. They were useful tools at one time ( although they never would have been necessary if we hadn't spread out into the suburbs ) but without cheap fuel they are worthless except for fashioning primitive weapons out of. Right now, as the cost of used vehicles is artificially high due to credit contraction and unemployment fears, sell that turd and turn the cash into ammo and grain. Soon, they will have no resale value at all.
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You were already ripped off if you bought any fancy furniture. I never bought more than used couches and new mattresses. Or a few you-screw-it-in-and-screw-it-up particle board monstrosities before I started dumpster diving for furniture or settled for living in pre-furnished travel trailers. If someone told me they had spend $899 on sale for a five piece bedroom set I would tell them they were an idiot. If I liked them I would be a little more diplomatic telling them that they were idiots. Sell it for what the market will bear. Get some cash flow from it. You can forget recouping any of the retail price but get something from it. A bed frame should be plastic buckets full of wheat topped with a mattress. Put that frilly crap around the bottom and no one knows.
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We are all addicted to TV. I wouldn't dream of telling you to give it up. We need a mind numbing at the end of working all day. I laugh at the suggestions that one should unplug the glass teet and learn all those nifty skills like expert shooting, nursing, etc. I might even have mentioned getting rid of the TV. I did without one for a half year while we first moved to Bisonia, but once more solar panels were installed I started watching again. As with everything, moderation. If you don't want to give it up, fine. Just get rid of the bigger ones in the house for some cash. Prep supply cash. And think about the DVD collection. You can't get much selling them, but do you really need them at all? Redbox is a buck a night. Netflix is about $1.50 a rental. Do you need to buy even $15 movies? How many times are you going to watch it? And before you think entertainment will be a post-collapse business, think about the over supply plus the need for powering the equipment. There are millions of movies out there, you won't have the only coveted copies. Cheap escapism entertainment did well in the Great Depression, but they had no brownouts and could walk to the theatre.
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Video game systems are even worse as far as retail versus resale cost. You way over paid. But if you expect to get any cash at all for it you had better sell soon. Before long everyone will be trying to hawk the junk. Get something out of it while you can. Video games and movies might seem like a good investment. In the future you have no employment and lots of free time between going down to the Soylent Distribution Center. And, sorry, but all grain will go to people food- no more meat or beer except on the black market. But two things work against that. A faltering power grid and the need soon to sell everything in order to survive. You sell the X-Box now and get a hundred bucks and buy 500 pounds of corn. Or, you wait until everyone is selling them, get $20 and get five pounds of corn. Inflation will be increasing, but the demand will be falling. So the falling sale price buys way less. Another worthless item will be any kitchen gadget that is totally unnecessary. Especially power equipment. A knife will chop veggies, you can do without a food processor. You won't be able to afford bacon once the Feds introduce Virus2 of Swine Flu and all herds are killed off to panic. Sell the microwave bacon cooker. Those kinds of things don't even sell well now, beware after the grid starts failing.
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I can't think of a whole of that will increase in value. Obviously guns and ammo, but I can't imagine you wanting to part with those. Perhaps you can still pick up pot metal crap and sell them at vast markups during a panic. Mopeds should do nicely. But that is a lot to invest on a bet that people will pay anything to keep motorized. Grain grinders will be a huge profit item, but I don't think until after the collapse. Which is a whole other topic. Here we are just telling you to sell your crap before they lose all resale value. And invest the cash into prep supplies.
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