I recently received a call from a university professor that was retiring after forty five years. This is what he told me: He had been an avid collector of books and had collected almost 20,000 of them. Since he was moving a considerable distance and to smaller quarters, he could only keep about 3,000. With that in mind he had called the garbage company and had them drop off a large dumpster which he filled with books several times (at a cost of over $500 per dumpster). He was really glad to have all that “taken care of” but was calling me because he had a large dining room set that he wanted to sell for top dollar.
Postscript: The amount he spent throwing away the books (which I would have loved to have) was far more than the value of the dining table (which he will never be able to sell at his asking price). Funny thing is, he was a math professor….. go figure!