I spent the better part of the last two weeks going through my massive game collection, plus books, comics, DVDs, and other things that are heavy. Boxing it all up and carting it around made me think of the old saying, "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move books."
Some of the stuff went to Half-Price Books. The prices aren't the best, but it's one-stop convenience, and they got most of the non-game material. The rest is going to Noble Knight, a huge online game dealer located in Janesville, WI, not too far from my old stomping grounds in my TSR days at Lake Geneva. I have catalogued 24 boxes of stuff, and we are in the process of getting it all shipped their way and sold. So far, things have gone really well and I can give them a high recommendation.
So what's in these 24 boxes, weighing well over half a ton? The single biggest contributor was Call of Cthulhu. For several decades I pretty much bought every new CoC supplement that came out. I haven't actually played CoC in years, mind you, but I kept all the stuff, y'know, just in case. Plus, until I found Noble Knight, I had no idea how to deal with the pile other than throwing it all away (which I just wasn't going to do). Other games healthily represented included Axis & Allies Miniatures and Boardgames, XXVc (remember the Buck Rogers roleplaying game?), D&D in all its various editions, plus a healthy collection of Steve Jackson Games material (mostly employee comps) dating back to my many years working there.
My office was a total disaster area, with filled bookcases in every open wall space, plus a pile of stuff on the floor filling the rest of the room to a depth of about three feet. But now ... the furniture is still here, but the rest of it is gone! That means the painters and carpet people can get in here and spruce things up, which I'm looking forward to.
In other news, I RTD (Return To Duty) tonight at the IRS. I don't expect things to be any different from last year, but we'll see.
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