A Trip to the Hot Tub Dealer Requires You to Get Rid of Some Junk
Useless purchases come in many forms. For example, there is the stuff you buy that you use once, maybe twice before it sits in the corner of one of the rooms in your home and collects dust. Then there is the stuff you buy that will be outdated by the end of the month, but you just HAD to have it. You might be an impulse buyer and your home is cluttered with useless gadgets and knick-knacks or you could buy things because it makes you feel good.
In any case, take a look around your home and you will discover a slew of useless garbage that is taking up precious space and, in all likelihood, sucking the life from your already drained body.
And now think about the money you spent on all of those useless knick-knacks and gadgets. If you had that money back, you could go to your California hot tub dealer and buy something not useless and something you totally want right now.
You see what happened there? We put the idea in your head that you want a hot tub, now it is the only thing you can think about. You hate us for that. You hate us because all you can think about is soaking in a hot tub but you can’t because you can’t afford one right now. We fail to see how this is our fault, you are the one who spends all their money on useless junk.
We can offer a solution though, go through your home and sell all of the stuff you are never going to use again. Do this and you could afford two hot tubs. Let’s take a look at what you can get rid of.
Sandwich Press
You have any number of useless small appliances gathering dust in your kitchen that some fool would be more than happy to take off your hands if the price is right. Let’s start with the sandwich press, the one you bought after eating a panini at Panera Bread and thinking it was the coolest sandwich ever. You forked out some serious cash for a top-of-the-line sandwich press that you used only once and that was to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
Tuxedo
You thought dressing up for the 1998 company Christmas party would boost your career, so you bought a tuxedo. Unfortunately, you were never promoted from line cook to kitchen manager so we don’t think it worked. For what you paid for that tuxedo, you could have gone to Men’s Wearhouse to rent one several times over.
Anyway, since you purchased the tux, you have gained 25 pounds, changed jobs and careers several times and don’t even attend Christmas parties anymore. We say it is time to let it go. There is an app for that you know.
Digital Camera
Really? We want to know what prompts somebody to pay hundreds of dollars for a camera. The digital camera on your iPhone takes better pictures than the Canon and offers more megapixels. Give it up, man.
Hello Kitty Toaster
You thought you were the bomb when you brought home that Hello Kitty Toaster. To be fair, you did use it quite often, when you had company over of course as you wanted to show it off. But now it’s just a sad little toaster because it is ignored and unused. Make it a happy toaster once again by selling it to somebody who will actually use it; like your 5-year-old niece.
Treadmill and Stationary Bike
These are obvious choices. Part of the reason you have gained 25 pounds in recent years is that you don’t use your treadmill or Stationary bike, at least, not for exercise. They do make a great place to dry your work shirts, but selling them would put some much-needed money back in your pocket.
Electric Guitar
You just couldn’t resist buying that Fender Stratocaster knockoff. You thought you would take a few guitar lessons, form a death metal band called “Disciples of Doom” or “Curdled Pit of Maggot Infested Body Parts” and retire a rock star.
The only thing you accomplished in buying that guitar was learning the chords to “Smoke on the Water.”
Bread Maker
You bought the bread maker the same time you bought the sandwich press because, at the time, it made perfect sense. You would make your own homemade bread and use that bread to make paninis in your sandwich press.
Basically, this was a failure all around as you managed to use the bread maker twice, with really bad results.
USB Flash Drives
You have several USB drives of various storage size and in different styles, including a Spiderman USB drive and a Hello Kitty USB drive. We are beginning to wonder about your obsession with Hello Kitty.
Anyway, you never use these devices and have no idea what is stored on them, so getting rid of them should be easy.
Popcorn Popper
What, microwave popcorn not good enough for you?
Old Text Books
You have a rather large collection of textbooks occupying a huge amount of space that could be used for more relevant items, like a set of encyclopedias. We understand that you paid top dollar for those books and offered mere pennies from the bookstore trying to buy them back, but a few cents here and there will add up to at least a couple of dollars you can add to your hot tub savings account.