educating momster

[verbminx]

Well, this "selling stuff on Amazon" idea seems to be working. I listed four things and two of them have sold. I am $18 richer. I'll ship both off Monday. Both were books that other people seem to have found perfectly charming, but which just didn't do it for me.

Today I had a fairly boring day. I got up, got ready to leave, and drove halfway across the freaking state to get to a larger Borders than the one I normally go to, so I could spend gift cards acquired from my uncles. I got the books I've been looking for (Perdido Street Station and All Tomorrow's Parties) plus the new Smashing Pumpkins set, the limited edition 2-cd greatest hits thing called Rotten Apples (I've been looking for it but most other places are only selling the edited single cd).

For the second time tonight I found something odd that record companies seem to be doing with cds that they want to seem "informal" - they did it with Judas 0, which is the 2nd cd in this Rotten Apples hits special edition package - I also saw it on a Sublime cd in the store, in passing - they are making the cd look like a CD-R with a handwritten-font title and all the CD-R markings and such. Very weird. The Sublime cd looks particularly homemade and the cd shows through the cover... if you didn't look closely at it you'd probably wonder if it was a rampant copyright violation.

When we got home I showed the momster how to list books of her own on Amazon. This was frustrating and uninteresting at first, but then I managed to convince her to get rid of most of her "psychic" books, that is, books by mediums who claim to communicate with the dead. Out of like 8 books she's keeping one by Sylvia Browne... could be better, but definitely not bad. She's also getting rid of a lot of self-help books that she bought and never read. I'm thrilled. The next step is to get her to read actual literature from time to time.

I could stand to get rid of some books too. It's just that it's always so hard to decide! (And most of my books are "good"... hehe... if I didn't like them, I probably already returned them to the store.)

Comments

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

Sell pulp-type stuff that you aren't going to read again, or anything you've had for at least 3 years without reading. I've sold a lot of that kind of thing (usually SF that looked cool in theory but was unreadable in practice), and I don't usually miss it. However, DON'T sell anything by favorite authors, or anything you're remotely attached to.