When I last wrote about my used game sale extravaganza, I was recently left on read by two different game resellers about my big lots of retro games and had realized I was just gonna have to list it all myself. I'm supremely pleased to report that, as of a half hour, they've all gone! There were five lots of games for sale, Genesis, NES, Wii, PS2, and GBA, and they are all either mailed off or will be mailed off tomorrow.
The NES games were what I was most wary about being able to move, given they were completely untested (however hardy I assumed they were, some of those games never worked for me to begin with, and it's been over a decade since they were last played )—naturally, they sold within ten minutes of the listing going up. Wii games notwithstanding, everything else took until today, the final day for their auctions. Since all the listings had watchers, I'd (correctly) assumed people were waiting until the end so as to not create a bidding war and jack up the price they'd pay in the end for them, which was fine with me. I put the minimum I'd be willing to part with them for as the initial bid.
This isn't the end of the sales, but it is the end of the big stuff and the end of these updates. I've made a comfortable low four figures out of everything, but as I've said, it was never the money I was most excited about. It's the space I've made at Somnolescent HQ. (My closet is tidy now.) It's the mental weight of these things finally being gone, never having to see them again, never having to think about how I'll eventually have to arrange for them to get gone somewhere, if not now, when it's time to move to Wales.
Speaking of the Wales trip, I'm probably actually going to take some CDs over there and try to get them sold as a lot too. I have a weird mental thing about circulating used record store stock to different stores, and the vast majority of my reject pile is still from when I did the Rediscovering back in 2020, thus largely bought in the States. That'll free up about half a shelf of space. As said, the game sales will continues as well. I still have a stray NES game, one especially creaky Robotic Operating Buddy, some DS and Game Boy stuff, and some Nintendo plushies in pristine condition I'm not really in love with taking up a lot of shelf space, plus some old books and stuff that just needs to donated or recycled (like dead e-readers and old hard drives).
For the most part, though, I bask. I've been really good this year about not immediately adding more junk back to the hoard too; I said last year that any used CD or game pickups will be solely old favorites I already know I love and will cherish, and so far I've kept to that, and will continue to keep to that during the Wales trip. Any collecting I do will be to get my Discogs wantlist trimmed down and get some old favorites in the collection at long last.
Expect a post about the marfGH: Volume 0 reissue tomorrow. I've been quiet so far this month because I've been fixated on getting that thing out the door before the trip, and we're literally two ports and a bonus video away from it. Then I'll emerge from my autism dungeon and indulge in some animal people and website stuff again, promise. Talk to you all more soon!
