Textcritic's Norwegian Adventure Thread; (Formerly "So, I'm liquidating my assets")
I have been offered a great research position in Europe, and suddenly find myself needing to quite quickly get rid of all my stuff. We are listing the house for sale today, but also need to sell or off load vehicles, furniture, the tent trailer, kids bikes, trampoline, etc., and other such big items.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any further advice? I've never had to do this before, and the thought of near total liquidation is rather paralyzing. It would be great to hear from someone who has been through this process with tales of their experience and advice.
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Originally Posted by woob
"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
Liquidation world! Are you going to get rid of all your books?
I can't really do that. As a scholar, they represent a fairly important part of my livelihood. I will take some with, but others will be put into storage.
Liquidation World? For real, or are you just being cheeky?
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Originally Posted by woob
"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
The downside with here or Kijiji or garage sale is that it's a big time commitment.
I know there's relocation companies that help with an incoming relocation, I wonder if there's the same for an outgoing relocation.
Getting rid of most of your life is paralyzing, but can be very liberating as well. I did that once when younger (though it was only a provincial move, not a continental one.
Oh, and congratz on the new job!
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I have been offered a great research position in Europe, and suddenly find myself needing to quite quickly get rid of all my stuff. We are listing the house for sale today, but also need to sell or off load vehicles, furniture, the tent trailer, kids bikes, trampoline, etc., and other such big items.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any further advice? I've never had to do this before, and the thought of near total liquidation is rather paralyzing. It would be great to hear from someone who has been through this process with tales of their experience and advice.
When I moved to Iceland, I sold a great number of stuff here on CP, and I donated mattresses, kitchen stuff I didn't want, and linens to the womens shelter.
Where in EU you going TC, this is VERY exciting for you!
When I moved from BC to Ontario, I got rid of most of my stuff through Kijiji and Craigslist. Granted, I didn't have a lot of big items, but I was surprised at how many takers I had for my junk so quickly.
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When I moved to Iceland, I sold a great number of stuff here on CP, and I donated mattresses, kitchen stuff I didn't want, and linens to the womens shelter.
Where in EU you going TC, this is VERY exciting for you!
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Originally Posted by woob
"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
Firstly, congrats on your position, that sounds like a great adventure. We just left calgary for the US and did something similar (ie. left in a hurry). Was a bit disconcerting selling off all of our possessions, particularly when we didn't actually own anything (ie. no house, no cars etc). It took a surprisingly short time to do it all and start from scratch. (well, kind of scratch-- we did have relocation assistance so a lot of things were moved, but a lot of big things we disposed of). As far as empirical tools which works for us, it goes like this:
- Cars advertised on CP, kijiji, autotrader and at mechanics shop. Ended up selling one car to a friend at our kid's daycare, and one from the sign at the mechanics place. (We did have other people interested from the autotrader add and kijiji eventually, but the cars were gone already and I had forgotten to remove the notices).
- House through a realtor. Paid ~500 for staging which was money very well spent, I can ask my wife for contact info for both realtor and stager if you're interested. tons of interest, and sold at more than what we paid 3 years ago.
- We weren't too stressed about $$ so ended up donating most of furniture and household items we didn't want. Some went to my grad students, some to Women in Need, and some to the Drop-inn center. Was a lot easier than trying to sell for sure, although it sounds like you might have a lot more to get rid of which would be a significant investment.
Let me know if you have any questions on specifics as this is really just the basics. Good luck!
I've never dealt directly with them, but I've attended many of their estate sales.
As far as I can tell they handle everything from pricing to hosting a weekend estate sale. And advertise it too. Presumably they take a cut, but it might be worth it for some of the headache you will go through trying to list everything.
Textcritic's Norwegian Adventure Thread; (Formerly "So, I'm liquidating my assets")
