A Non-Lazy Saturday

Yup, I actually did stuff after I woke up at 11:00 this morning!

When I got up, Tim was organizing the basement, but I hadn't had breakfast yet, so I went to the kitchen to get something to eat. I ended up having a glass of Kool-Aid, because I didn't realize that there was cereal in the pantry again (as of 1:00 this morning). He mentioned the need to organize my music better, and that got me to thinking about the movies we have in the laundry room, which are duplicates to ones we have on the movie shelves already.

Tim also mentioned that I need to get my un-read books out of the shed. I was originally planning to wait until the weather got warmer, and then having a yard sale, but today I decided against waiting.

Instead, I got the boxes of books out of the shed and went through the books on my brown shelves. I put all of the books that I'm never going to read (or read again) in bins, and rearranged the books I'm keeping onto one of the small shelves. Somewhere in there, I ate a really great, homemade salad.

Then, I went to Wonder Book & Video to try and sell the books, but they stop buying books at 4:00 p.m, and it was already 4:10. I'll try again tomorrow, since I won't be able to make it to Wonder Book during the week.

I then stopped at Music & Arts Center to see if they bought used instruments. They don't, and the guy didn't know anywhere in town that would. He did recommend Craigslist though.

My last stop was to get gas at Get-Go.

When I got back, I took the empty shelf down to the basement, and organized my music onto it before putting as much of my loose sheet music as I could into sheet protectors and putting those into the binder I use for that. I also put my recorders, my music stand, and my trumpet on the shelf, and put the shelf between my keyboard and the basement door.

Finally, I went upstairs to place an ad on Craigslist to sell my clarinet.

After that, I decided I was done for the day, and after I fed the animals I watched Smallville while playing Scrabble on Facebook.

Buy my books!

So, I went to Wonder Book and Video to sell the 206 books I wanted to get rid of. The buyer guy wanted to give me $10 for the lot! Grrr. Considering I had done my research to find out the lowest used book price for each title, this irked me.

I had gone to Amazon and looked at the used book listings for each title--for each one, I checked the lowest price (not including the ones selling for only $0.01) for the condition my book was in. I added all of those prices up, and got a little over $360, which was only about $51 more than my original estimate for all 206 books.

Since Wonder Book was only going to give me 1/36 of the money my books were worth, I decided to sell my books online at iOffer. So, if you want to see what books I'm selling (and maybe even buy some), just go to the top link at the right of my blog.