I got back to Naxxar last Sunday and since I still have 4 weeks of doing next to nothing (or whatever I am pleased to do) I decided it was time to clean up my room for good.. My room actually looks like it's always clean.. however when you take a look at the drawers and inside furniture.. the real mess shows up. Cables from old computers, DC adapters of devices that don't work anymore, printers, whatever you can think that it has relation to electronics/computers I have.

So today I pulled out all the stuff from the furniture and started sorting.. first into two categories: *might be able to sell* and *trash* stuff.. I took a list of all the *might be able to sell* stuff, and believe me there's lot of crap. Now I'll have to think whether I'll try and sell it on ebay or not. I've never sold anything on the net (though I do buy a lot), and I'm venturing into unknown territory.. Especially with ebay, because if I screw up, I get a negative vote which screws up my reputation. Two things that are on my mind; how to be able to predict shipping costs to whatever country to ship to and will I be able to make a profit? I mean, would it be really worth the while. Because if I'm only going to get a couple of euros, I'm gonna trash the stuff.

The other category, *trash*, I took apart and sorted further into metals/plastics so that I can recycle them.. the other stuff that I'm not going to dare and open, are going to electronic waste, like printers.. I opened up a printer once, it was an inkjet, and believe me, the mess I ended up with was unbelievable.. ink on the floor, on my arm, on my shirt, every single thing that came in contact with it, was screwed. From that point on, no more opening printers. Not just the mess, it's way complicated.. too many plastic components, and I only managed to salvage two electric motors so it's definitely not worth while doing it again.

When I was taking a break, I was looking at this stuff at bird's eye view. I started wondering why on earth I bought all this crap in the first place. Most of things, ok, either broke down or came with other products, like usb cables with cameras, telephone lines with modems, etc. However there is stuff that I bought and just used for a couple of days. The wise, they say, learns from his mistakes. So when browsing for new products, next time around I'll try to be wise and buy only if I really need it.

Next clean up operation: clothes. Losing weight is not fun, every item that is over 1 year old is a give away. However the worst part is that I have to shop for new clothes And I don't like to shop for clothes here in Malta.. if you ask to try something on.. it's like you're implying that you want to buy. And then I have to shrug off every attemp to make me buy it. Ugh.