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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 123977, member: 25&quot;]It may be just me, but I really would not want to live in such a land of fear. Police station meetings, burner phones, secret e-mail addresses, and all for stuff that sounds too crummy to put through a decent or even half decent auction house?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not kilos of Mexican Brown you are trading, it&#039;s just stuff, and it&#039;s not the Matalan Cartel, it&#039;s your neighbours. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have sold stuff from home before, with a small ad in the local paper, people either turn up or they don&#039;t, if they do they come in and see the item (I found that 1930s chiming grandfather clocks sold well this way) and never had even a tiny problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>It just sounds a bit panicky to me.</p><p>========================================</p><p><br /></p><p>On a related decluttering note, I&nbsp; have consigned half the contents of the garage, about 30&nbsp; x 40 litre storage boxes with all or most of our car boot, flea market and antique fair stuff to a local auction room for sale. This is the sort of place where a catalog description might read &#039;2 boxes of books&#039; or &#039;4 boxes of household items&#039; or &#039;a box of collectable items&#039; but the first 10 lots that went through last week did pretty well for what they were, the rest will be scattered over the next couple of months of bi-weekly sales, and combined with the continued sale of items from the Manchester Hoard in a better class saleroom, will provide a handy income stream, some of which I have frittered away on pieces of silver and most of which is just sitting in the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>A summer cruise to Iceland to see the volcanoes, etc. may be on the cards, you can&#039;t, after all, take it with you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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