Sell For X

I like getting rid of stuff. It makes me happy to clear out old junk or unnecessary clutter. If I can sell it or give it away, all the better.

I often see people hemming and hawing about whether to sell an item. They discover something in their house (that they don’t use) is worth something on the secondary market but they hesitate to pull the trigger because “What if I need it someday?”

That’s status quo bias chaining you to that item! Here’s the trick: imagine you didn’t already own that item. Would you buy it for X dollars, where X is the amount of money you could get by selling it? Probably not, right?

So sell it and be happy!