Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Messy Me

'Image by Here's Kate via Flickr

My house is such a mess! Filled to the brim with junk, books, Maya's one million and one toys and games, clothes, plants and ...stuff. I keep telling to myself that I have to somehow clean this mess, declutter, throw out the stuff we don't need/use. But I am looking and things and thinking that somebody made them and the earth gave the materials from which the things were created...and I just don't have the heart to throw them. Here in Israel there are no garrage/yard sales, besides, I live in a block of flats. What I could do is to try and sell them on Wednesday, in the market , there is a section were people bring their stuff to sell it but I don't know, too complicated. Any ideas?
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7 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 24, 2009 at 5:54 AM

    eBay.

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  2. Alone in Holy LandNovember 24, 2009 at 10:03 AM

    Yeah, I thought so...

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  3. ~ MamaNovember 24, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    The books are way easier to sell on amazon. They already have the listings and you just put them under used! Ebay is getting pricey...

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  4. Jacqui PatersonNovember 24, 2009 at 4:24 PM

    Do they have charity shops over there that you could donate to??? That's how I recently cleared out piles of unwanted stuff from our cramped flat. I cleared some space, and felt good about helping the charity too!!!

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  5. Alone in Holy LandNovember 25, 2009 at 1:19 AM

    Mama - I never checked this possibility, I had no idea...
    Jaqui - I have to ask. I know there are all kinds of charities here, but they deal mainly with food. I'll call the ones that I have phone numbers from (one of them actually lended us crutches when my son broke his foot). Oh, it would be wonderful if they would receive such donations! I have tons of stuff!
    Thank you all for the ideas!

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  6. EstherNovember 30, 2009 at 9:15 AM

    Try www.yad2.co.il
    if you want to sell something and

    http://www.freecycle.org/group/IL/Israel
    if you just want it recycled and are happy to give it away.

    For clothes you could also try the local WIZO

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  7. Alone in Holy LandDecember 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM

    Esther, I am sorry I didn't see your comment earlier. Thank you for the freecycle idea! I think I'll go for it!

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