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		<title>Currently on Ebay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black &#39;patent&#39; evening bag with gold chain strap
Black sheepskin rug, 160cm long
Black sheepsking rug, 117cm long
Roaring monster with flashing eyes
Get &#39;em whilst they&#39;re luke warm.
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Get &#39;em whilst they&#39;re luke warm.</p>
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		<title>Too much stuff, so some of it has to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;m such a pack rat. It&#39;s terrible. I can&#39;t bear to throw things out, not just because one day I might need them, but because I feel awful that stuff just gets put in a big hole in the ground to rot or, in some cases, hang around for the next few tens of thousands [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I&#39;m such a pack rat. It&#39;s terrible. I can&#39;t bear to throw things out, not just because one day I might need them, but because I feel awful that stuff just gets put in a big hole in the ground to rot or, in some cases, hang around for the next few tens of thousands of years quietly poisoning everything in the area.<br />
When I lived in Reading, I had a two bedroom maisonette all to myself and was making good headway in filling it full of <i>stuff</i>. I then had to move back down here to Dorset, where I had two rooms to my name. Last year I moved house again and now I have one very small, very pink room which doesn&#39;t even have enough space for a wardrobe. Most of my stuff is in boxes in the loft.<br />
My plan, up until relatively recently, was to go back to London. My small brain was telling me that when that happened I&#39;d be able to take all my stuff with me and would once again live in a nest of my own building, like that of a schizoid bower bird with a thing for candles and gadgets. In a way, that would have been lovely, but part of me is sort of glad that that&#39;s not going to happen. Sometimes you just get stuck in a rut and the only way to get out of that rut is by launching yourself head-first into a ditch. I may be struggling now to get out of the ditch, but that doesn&#39;t mean the rut looks any more attractive than it did two years ago.<br />
So, my plan is to have no plan, but it would be easier to have no plan if I had less stuff. I&#39;ve got used to the nomadic life over the last six month, and the future seems to hold the promise of more wanderings, so all this stuff I have carefully packed in boxes is just going to sit there until&#8230; until what? I magically buy a house? Father Christmas comes a-thieving? My parent&#39;s hold a big car boot sale whilst I&#39;m out of the country?<br />
Best to beat them to it. I am going to be putting as much of my stuff up on Ebay for sale as possible. Obviously I won&#39;t be letting my books go, or my records. But the two sheepskin rugs that I bought 15 years ago but never really used can go. The handbags I have been bought but never use can go. The hats. The dinosaur with the roar and the flashing eyes. The camera. Maybe the guitar. The four drawer filing cabinet, if I can ever get round to clearing it out. Definitely the tent.<br />
It&#39;s all too much stuff for one nomad to own. It hangs like a weight around my neck, dragging me down. I don&#39;t need it, and I don&#39;t want it anymore. <a href="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfrppZ25QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsassZlQ5feQ5fwQ5fiQ5fsQQsojsZ0">You can have it</a>. It&#39;ll all be going cheap, I promise you.<br />
(If you want, you can grab my <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SuwsStuffOnEbay">Ebay auction RSS feed</a> so you can stay totally up to date with what sort of crap I&#39;m trying to flog.)</p>
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