Time to Focus - Our best year ever?

pinknsparkly

noblet wrote: »

Question -

We're continuing decluttering. We have decided to get rid of 95% of our CDs -altho most of them are quite old. Also a bunch of older DVDs.
Straight to the charity shop or worth spending time doing anything else with them?

Hi Noblet, I've never used any of them but there are some websites online that will pay you for second hand CDs and DVDs, and pay for the postage too, such as https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/ I've no idea if it would be financially worth it, but if you've got lots of them then even at 50p an item you'd make a fair amount of money back!

mirko

I've used music magpie before and they did pay - and quite promptly. It can take a bit of time and will probably not earn you megabucks.

It just depends whether you think it's worth it, I did it for about 100 CDs and got 15-20 quid back (I can't remember exact numbers).

They wouldn't take a lot of the ones I wanted to sell so they went to the CS.

noblet

Cheers both - watched Pretty Woman recorded from the weekend (!!) and scanned them into magpie this evening - it's at £24 for around 100 cds/dvds, so well worth the effort. No comments on the film choice :-D

noblet

Success this weekend has been a temporary repair on our sofa.
2 springs had gone - we had a quote for £240 for a repair, which seemed a little steep given that we're not 100% convinced whether to keep this one a little longer, or if it was time (10+yrs) for another...

Anyway, after a bit of convincing the better half, opened up the bottom and managed to use some elastic from my sewing supplies to secure the two ends of each of the broken springs back together. It's definitly usable again - who knows how long it will last.
We've got guests during August so at least it will keep it ok in the meantime without spending £240 on a 10+yr old sofa - and then we can think about what to do long term.