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Vent: passed on a $15 mid century lamp at the Kane County flea market and I still think about it
Everyone on here loves to brag about walking away from stuff they don't need, and I think that advice is mostly wrong. Two summers back at the Kane County flea market out in St. Charles I spotted a teak lamp with the original shade for $15 and talked myself out of it because I had too much junk at home. I walked the rest of the aisles telling myself I was being smart and disciplined. By the time I circled back 20 minutes later, some guy in a Cubs hat was handing over a twenty and carrying it off. I checked eBay that night and the same lamp was going for $180 to $250 in worse shape. What I did about it was start a rule for myself. If something is under $20 and I know the value, I buy it on the spot and sort out the guilt later. Decluttering advice and flea market advice are two different things and I mixed them up. Has anyone else passed on something cheap and spent weeks kicking themselves over it?
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jessica_robinson238d ago
How long did it take for that regret to actually fade? I ask because you said weeks but I'm guessing that $180 to $250 price tag made it sting way longer than that. I did pretty much the same thing at a church rummage sale two years ago, passed on a $5 brass desk fan because my garage was already packed, and it sold on eBay for around $90. The part that bugs me still isn't even the money, it's that I told myself I was being smart when I was really just being scared of my own junk pile. So after you made that under $20 rule, did you ever hit a point where the stuff started piling up and you had to make a second rule to deal with it? Because that's the trap I keep falling into, I fix the flea market problem and then my basement becomes the new problem.
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