So, my husband and I are in the process of packing in preparation for a move next month to a new house.
We are purging and de-cluttering like mad - and it's a great time to get rid of a lot of stuff, including stuff we did not realize we had hauled from Virginia to Alabama to Georgia back to Virginia.
Seriously, if you didn't realize you still had it or didn't miss it after not using it for 10 years, should you really hang on to it?
We have put a lot of things on eBay and Craigslist, too, and sold quite a bit of our furniture.
One item, though, has not sold. It's a 4' x 6' hand woven wall hanging, a Parisian street scene, that was not inexpensive when I purchased it oh-so-many years ago.
Once a prized possession, it now lingers on Craigslist (after being ignored on eBay), even at a low, low, ridiculously low price. A teeny, tiny fraction of what I paid for it, I can tell you.
And to think I snorted when my husband put a Kodak slide projector on eBay. "Really?" I scoffed. "Who on earth would want that relic from the Dark Ages?"
Apparently 2 people did, because he ended up selling it for more than his minimum price.
Yeah, that was a slight smirk I saw as he was preparing to ship it out.
Meanwhile, my wall hanging just...well, hangs there, apparently completely out of fashion. At any price. I envision the next stop for it is the community yard sale, with a tag on it that says, "free to good home."
"I cannot believe no one wants this!" I exclaims in exasperation this afternoon. "Seriously. Do you know how much I paid for that thing?"
Then it hit me. I sound just like some of my clients who do not understand feedback about their 10 year old green kitchen countertops - "but they are Corian and were expensive" - or their 25 year old interior-decorator designed decor. After all, they "paid a lot for this" and it looks as good to them today as it did when it was first done.
Tastes evolve. What was popular 20, 10 or even 5 years ago doesn't always appeal to today's buyers.
No matter how much you love it.
And no matter how much you paid for it.
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