Extra stuff sold on second hand earned the average Brit £106.15 last year according to research by thinkmoney.
Two thirds of adults in the UK sold their unwanted items online (eBay or Amazon), at car boot sales or through small ads in local papers, and mobile phone recycling websites and one in five said they raised £101-250.
CDs and DVDs were sold the most (38 per cent) followed by books (35 per cent), clothes (28 per cent) and old mobile phones (26 per cent), as well as unwanted gifts (26 per cent).
However, plenty of people gave their things away to charity shops, friends and family, particularly books (61 per cent), clothes (59 per cent), CDs and DVDs (43 per cent) and toys (39 per cent).
How often do you sell or give away things and how do you do it?
I had a massive clearout last week of stuff. It was more a life-cleansing activity rather than liquidation proceedings though.
Some of it ended up in Oxfam, and a lot of it ended up in the loft, or as I call it “the hole in the top of the house where I put things I don’t know what to do with to see if I miss them and if I do I keep them and if I don’t I get rid of them”. I guess loft is a little more succinct.