Faced with the choice of either making productive strides towards making money, versus restarting my long-dormant relationship with Craigslist, today I chose option B and declared war on the clutter of my parents' home.
Note: this war did not include the years of personal rubble that is sitting in my bedroom closet.
I went into the Free section of Craigslist and began the breakup with a 14-year-old fish tank that has been out of commission for the last third of its tenure with our family. This is what I came up with:
Large fish tank with wrought iron stand
If you like displaying small gilled animals in captivity in your living room, have I got a fish tank for you.
It's a glass rectangular tank, 2 ft long, 1 ft wide, a foot and a half tall. It could use a cleaning, but otherwise the filter works fine. It comes on a wrought iron black stand, and it will make an attractive, living-room friendly home for your guppies or whatever other finned friends you decide to put in there. We stopped letting fish swim pointlessly in our home a few years ago, so if that sounds like something you'd like to do please collect the tank. It's yours.
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I got about 20 posts within the day, including one from a guy who said "Swimming pointlessly in my living room? They can join me." By 7 pm it was out the door. Tomorrow: children's bicycle. I mean, getting some writing assignments.
I'll add here that I had a similarly rewarding experience in Tel Aviv when my landlord gave me an electric juicer I had no need for. It was an appliance created to satisfy no human need at all; think of a normal juicer, in which you manually squeeze half a lemon onto a cone that stands in the middle of a dish. Now imagine a machine doing this half as well and using electricity to do it. I went onto Agora.co.il, posted the machine, and was similarly availed of yet another useless jumble of plastic and metal.
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