Phones in, phones out

Went out and picked up the new Verizon Droid today after work. I just started playing around with it, but it's a lot of fun so far. That also means that the old phone is for sale, I cleared out all the data on it, and posted it on Amazon Marketplace, we'll see how long it takes to sell.

Living things too

Sold scribblenauts and mailed it out, which brings the count down to -24. Amazon marketplace is really great for selling stuff online, I like it a lot more then ebay (for buying used stuff too).

Also, went through and counted up all the plants in the house, 40, I'm not going to count the pots separately. There's also 2 watering cans and two of those little glass automatic watering globes. So, another 44 plant related things to add to the list. And at work I have a fancy new notebook that the CFA Institute sent me, now that I'm a member. I guess I'll use it up eventually, but I think it's nice enough to count; back down to -23, and 208 things counted so far (I've started taking out the things I've gotten rid of from the total tally).

More shopping?

Just went out and picked up a few undershirts and things for work, so another +13 which brings me way up to +23. But it's ok because I finally went to goodwill today too, with 19 things from the kitchen, 22 things from the closet (mostly old t-shirts) and the two crappy set of plastic poker chips we never use, so a grand total of -43, woot! Along with the Nintendo DS I mailed off on Friday and the 2 chipped up cups that got tossed I'm way down at -23, my lowest yet.

Although at this point I think I've sent off most of the obvious stuff that I could get rid of, it's going to be a little harder to start finding things to sell/give away, but that's the point of this whole thing, to make me think about how much stuff we buy, and how much stuff we have that I could probably do without.

For Sale

I just posted the Nintendo DS and Scribblenauts (the last DS game I had) on Amazon - it's like ebay but without all the scammers. So hopefully those will sell for a few bucks.

Update: It's only been posted for a couple hours, and already the DS sold. Woot, this is way better then ebay.

Goodwill trip ASAP!

We got a new DSL modem from Verizon because it looked like ours was causing problems, but we've still got connection problems sometimes even with the new modem, so we've got an extra one lying around now. Eventually one will go away, but for now it's a +1.

Vanessa also gave me my b-day present, a set of espresso cups, which is a whopping +6, so I'm at +10. The good news is that we threw out a pair of our old crappy chipped up espresso cups, and I've been expanding the goodwill pile - there must be 20 things there now. I'm going to go through the house once more, and then ship out all this stuff and get back in to negative numbers.

It's just data

Its looking like this is going to be a consumerism heavy week for me. The new baking sheets and cooling racks finally arrived. Well technically they arrived last week, but it took a long time to get them from the post office. I have to say that dealing with the people working at the Somerville post office has been the worst customer serivce experience I've had in months, if not years.

But back to buying stuff, so that's 4 new pieces of baking equipment, which puts me over my limit, plus I'm buying Forza 3 today, and have a few things coming in the mail, so I would be way over. Except that after I unpacked the baking sheets I looked around the kitchen for stuff we didn't need any more, and made a pile of at least 10 things to bring to goodwill in like 5 minutes.

I'll have to cart all that stuff over this week sometime, but I'll be well under my limit, I'm sure there's some clothes I can bring at the same time.

As far as stuff I'm expecting this week, a lot of it is computer stuff, notably Window 7, and some new memory for the desktop. Since all that stuff is getting installed, I don't think it should count as seperate items from the computer itself (otherwise I'd have to open up the box and count all the hardware that's already been installed, and I'm defintiely not counting software).

Once I buy Forza 3, I'll be at +3, and I'll update that total once I make the goodwill trip. I'm also thinking about what I should count next, maybe things in the kitchen, but that might be a big task, so maybe I'll start somewhere easier, or at least prepare a game plan first.

It's the Christmas in October!

It's getting close to birthday time, and I've gotten a few gifts that I need to add:

An XKCD sweathshirt

A vegetarian cook book

and... a Blowtorch! a gift to myself :)

so, that puts me at -2 of my original total, but it's worth it to get these cool gifts.