Disposing of my possessions

[lethargic_man]

As you know, I shall be emigrating to Berlin shortly. For many of the more fungible of my possessions without sentimental value, it does not make sense for me to shlep ship them there. If anyone wants anything listed below, please let me know. I've provided as-new prices; many of the items are sufficiently used that they will no longer be worth that, others will (e.g. the bookcases). I'm not going to hold anyone to any price, but it would be nice to get some remuneration for my possessions, given that I'm going to have buy new ones at the far end, and do not currently have an income.

Furniture

• £190 extending circular dining-room table, surface somewhat stained, scored and etched (tip: don't leave past-their-expiry date batteries on a wooden surface!)
• 5 4 × £11 folding chairs, each equipped (if I haven't lost any) with a Blenda chair cover (all in need of dry-cleaning!)
• 3 other folding chairs of unknown provenance (no one admits to lending them to me!)
• 3 × £55 Billy bookcases (These are coming with me now)
• 1 bookcase/storage cupboard which came with the flat
• Monopod pedestal

In addition, I haven't quite decided whether to get rid of the following:

• Revolution Courier Race bicycle, this year's model is £349, plus mudguards, which seem to be £30+. Nine years old and heavily used; various parts have been replaced. I need to research whether it's remotely cost-effective to ship this to Berlin. It is, so it will be.
• Track bike pump, £15
• Succah: This was a real labour of love, and I would be sad to leave it behind, but it might not make financial sense to bring with. It's put together to a design by my_torah and his father (which I'm sure he'd be happy for me to pass on), and consists of the following separable components:
  • 40-odd × 8' bamboo poles (Homebase offers ten for £5.49). Some of them are no longer quite straight. These will definitely not be coming with me!
  • 6'×32' light hessian wrap, with strings attached for tying to the roof
  • Cable ties
  • Tree tefillin Rubberloc tree ties, £12 in 2010
  • Matting to act as סְכַךְ
  All together it came to about... £80, I think, in 2008, which was considerably cheaper than any of the prefab ones you can get Golders Green.
This is also coming with me now.

Cutlery and crockery

• 5 × cheap and cheerful wine glasses (The nice ones are going with me!)
• Set of 4 matching tall glasses; set of 5 matching tall glasses (plus 1 unmatched one).
• Various cutlery, pots, pans; including kosher le-Pesach ones, amongst which two very large pots useful for kashering the rest in before Pesach.

Kitchen

• Hinari food processor. Some bits of this have broken; it doesn't seem possible to get replacements firsthand any longer (and for me secondhand parts are out on kashrus grounds), but it's still good for chopping and blending things.
• Electric whisk
• Electric urn This can come with me

Kitchen and white goods

I expect the following white goods which I got since I moved in will stay here (along with the poor but serviceable condition chairs and armchairs, which I shall leave for the next owner to probably throw out):

• Whirlpool 60l IIRC A-rated upright freezer
• Matsui washing machine, was £224 inc. delivery and installation when I got it

I'm sure there'll be other things I haven't thought of here. (And indeed, there are a number I can think of that I doubt anyone is interested in, e.g. a pair of somewhat clapped-out loudspeakers (I find they still sound reasonable with treble boost applied), or my crockery, much of which is chipped.) I might update this list as I think of further examples.

Comments

[liv]

Ever so much empathy on the emigrating. I might plausibly be interested in buying your succah for shul, because our gazebo is really not an effective, or halachically valid, succah. But I need to work out whether it fits our requirements.

[lethargic_man]

It might not be big enough for your purposes: it can fit six people around a smallish table. I think you'd be hard pushed to get a minyan in standing!

[(Anonymous)]

Billies
Are your billies half height or full height?
Em

[lethargic_man]

They're a few inches taller than me; the link I provided says 202cm. One of them is birch veneer, the other two oak veneer. (They were out of stock of the oak ones when the predecessor to the birch one disintegrated.)

[green_knight]

I have no use for any of these things - just wanted to say that if you need a hand with shlepping boxes, I'm happy to help. I'd love to meet up before you leave!