Scenes from this weekend's tag sale

[Knight]

I don't. It's mostly inherited from my mom and some other relatives. However, my mom was a garage sale fanatic and spent her weekends going to them when she could. She liked Depression glass and Japanese lusterware, but she would buy just about anything.

One problem I have is that of debating whether to invest repairing things since nobody would buy broken applainces or frayed furniture, but I could never recoup what I'd spend fixing things. For instance, to fix a nice brass lamp, I'd need a socket and a wire - it would cost around $10 to fix it and I couldn't sell it for $3. To reupholster furniture is throughthe roof.

Then the next questions are.
1. Why would you keep/accumulate things that you say are not worth while dollar/profit wise?
2. Do some item have sentimental value & parting with some doesn't feel right to you?
3. You point out the sale value is less after being repaired, would you consider donating whatever that was decent enough not repaired to charity ?

If none of the above then trash day would seem the best option to rid yourself of costly to repair useless things.