Sold 1 car

Nearly there now!

I've sold most of my bits and pieces. I have a mic and stand, TOMTOM, steering lock and my record player left to sell. I got rid of the car which was a big one and sold a load of stuff at the car boot last week.

Some of you may know I was in a car crash outside work. I skidded on the dual carriageway and came off onto the grass which I think bent my wheel, then I slid into a chevron sign and knocked that down. Anyway I repaired the steering and sold the car for £400 which is £100 more than I paid for it when I first got it :)

But I will have to give my 'used car sales career' a miss cause I still have to pack up the rest of my music.

Boy for Sale

The past few days I've been clearing out my room. I've sold my xbox 360 and 6 games for £250 (52,198Y) and my desktop recording studio for £63 (13,000Y). I never played much on the Xbox but I did love the racing games and I used it for DVD's. Now I'm using some cheap Toshiba player and it's just annoying. I will have to sell my HD TV soon and go back to old CRT's.

I've decided to keep my electro-acoustic guitar but leave it behind, like so many broken hearts. Still, it will still be mine when I get back. Once I get to Japan I will purchase a smaller acoustic just to soothe me when times are hard and lonely.

My car must go though, insurance is £189 (39,716Y) a month. But before that goes I will car boot the rest of my odds and ends. Whilst I have the car I have to anyway. I'll pile it all into my boot, take a table and some chairs and sit at Tranmere football grounds and sell everything for a few pounds. I may even see if the car will go.

I'm keeping all my books, I'm making inventories for them and boxing them off. I'll be keeping my Cd's, SACD's, DVD's and vinyl. I'll copy them all to a portable hard drive first. I shall be keeping my Sony XA3000ES SACD player though, it set me back £700 (147,098Y) when I bought it and it's still got amazing clarity, plus the analogue 5.1 is brilliant. I'll be keeping the Yamaha RX-V2600 Amp for it too, when it was new it cost £900 (189,126Y) and I know I'd never make that back on it. I have 3 KEF-Q speakers at the front of my room which I'll be storing and 2 KEF Q Eggs at the rear which will be nice to keep. For music I'll just have what ever is on my hard drive and my Zune mp3/WMV player, got about 40GB on that and 500GB on the hard drive. I've bought a pair of Bose quiet acoustic 3 headphones for £189 (40,000Y) but it will never be the same as good speakers.

I've closed one bank account now and I'm also using the funds from sales to pay off any debts. I owe about a grand on two credit cards. But I should easily earn that through extra work and selling stuff. I'm going to visit Egypt next month with the parents so that will be nice and I'll have my birthday later next month so hopefully it will be fun before I go!

I received a lovely card from the school in Aomori and I've been emailing the teacher who will be joining me as well as the teacher who is leaving and I'm getting very positive feedback about the school. Well i'll keep you posted on how the car booting goes and everything.

Thanks for the comments!