Clearing out

I said it would never happen, but it seems that it is. Our hero (that’s me, you plonker) is growing up. Even if only a little bit.

As much as it pains the hoarder in me, I have to ditch stuff ahead of the final evacuation of the Athenaeum Club. I have to ditch quite a lot of stuff and I don’t necessarily want to just throw it away, which means that I am going to have to get myself into gear and start sorting.

There are three categories of items that take vast amounts of space and which are so rarely used/admired or displayed that I may as well get rid of them. I cannot explain just how much this goes against the grain: like any collector (hoarder), I don’t need to look at the stuff all the time; just knowing it’s there does the trick. I suspect that in a previous incarnation I must have been a dragon – or at least a magpie – with all my goodies piled up for me to sleep on and guard.

I do like my shinies.

Anyway, be that as it may, I very much doubt that I shall have space for much of it after the end of June.

I shall be very much reducing my comic collection. It never gets read and is stacked in a huge number of collector’s boxes. Most of it dates from the mid 80s to the early noughties. In more recent years from about 2002 onwards, my collecting has tailed off drastically as has my inclination to sort, file and box. The few titles I now read, I am content to wait until they appear in collected editions (except the Ultimate Fantastic Four, which I have to read as it happens).

Similarly I have an unconscionable amount of action figures to get rid of. Now while these strictly are collectibles, none of them are really old enough to command decent prices on eBay (or at least comparatively few are). This means that I am somewhat stuck as to know what to do with them. The majority of the space-takers are Dragon figures which, despite their name, are nothing to do with dragons. They are, in essence, glorified and highly detailed Action Man (GI Joe for my US/Canadian friends) figures. When I say highly detailed, I am not exaggerating: at 1/6 scale some of the more recent ones even have individual cartridges in the ammo pouches and gun magazines. I intend to keep a few of my favourites, but the bulk of them will have to go.

I also have a fairly large collection of videos (principally Star Trek) taking up space. I suspect that losing these will be even more difficult that the others. At least the comics can go in recycling bins if necessary and the action figures will probably recoup a miniscule percentage on eBay.

My question, therefore, to people out there in LJ land is simple: does any one think that they may want any of this stuff?

Clearing out

I said it would never happen, but it seems that it is. Our hero (that’s me, you plonker) is growing up. Even if only a little bit.

As much as it pains the hoarder in me, I have to ditch stuff ahead of the final evacuation of the Athenaeum Club. I have to ditch quite a lot of stuff and I don’t necessarily want to just throw it away, which means that I am going to have to get myself into gear and start sorting.

There are three categories of items that take vast amounts of space and which are so rarely used/admired or displayed that I may as well get rid of them. I cannot explain just how much this goes against the grain: like any collector (hoarder), I don’t need to look at the stuff all the time; just knowing it’s there does the trick. I suspect that in a previous incarnation I must have been a dragon – or at least a magpie – with all my goodies piled up for me to sleep on and guard.

I do like my shinies.

Anyway, be that as it may, I very much doubt that I shall have space for much of it after the end of June.

I shall be very much reducing my comic collection. It never gets read and is stacked in a huge number of collector’s boxes. Most of it dates from the mid 80s to the early noughties. In more recent years from about 2002 onwards, my collecting has tailed off drastically as has my inclination to sort, file and box. The few titles I now read, I am content to wait until they appear in collected editions (except the Ultimate Fantastic Four, which I have to read as it happens).

Similarly I have an unconscionable amount of action figures to get rid of. Now while these strictly are collectibles, none of them are really old enough to command decent prices on eBay (or at least comparatively few are). This means that I am somewhat stuck as to know what to do with them. The majority of the space-takers are Dragon figures which, despite their name, are nothing to do with dragons. They are, in essence, glorified and highly detailed Action Man (GI Joe for my US/Canadian friends) figures. When I say highly detailed, I am not exaggerating: at 1/6 scale some of the more recent ones even have individual cartridges in the ammo pouches and gun magazines. I intend to keep a few of my favourites, but the bulk of them will have to go.

I also have a fairly large collection of videos (principally Star Trek) taking up space. I suspect that losing these will be even more difficult that the others. At least the comics can go in recycling bins if necessary and the action figures will probably recoup a miniscule percentage on eBay.

My question, therefore, to people out there in LJ land is simple: does any one think that they may want any of this stuff?

Election nasties

I was a little dismayed to find on the way home last night and on the way in to work this morning that the BNP are handing out election leaflets outside Totteridge and Whetstone station. I didn’t realise on my way home yesterday and actually took one, though I only had it for the five paces it took to pass the litter bin.

I’ve not seen any BNP literature or candidates in the area before and it’s rather dismaying to find that they have suddenly sprung up now. I can’t imagine that they will get any seats on Barnet council, but who knows. I must check the results for the last set of local elections and see if they had a candidate then and if so, what proportion of the vote the buggers got.

Election nasties

I was a little dismayed to find on the way home last night and on the way in to work this morning that the BNP are handing out election leaflets outside Totteridge and Whetstone station. I didn’t realise on my way home yesterday and actually took one, though I only had it for the five paces it took to pass the litter bin.

I’ve not seen any BNP literature or candidates in the area before and it’s rather dismaying to find that they have suddenly sprung up now. I can’t imagine that they will get any seats on Barnet council, but who knows. I must check the results for the last set of local elections and see if they had a candidate then and if so, what proportion of the vote the buggers got.