The only comment I have is in this economy it's tough to sell anything online. Take a look at Ebay and other auction sites, note how many items similar to yours are listed and have zero bids. Even collectibles sit for the entire auction period with no bids.

In our area which hasn't been hit as hard as others, we have furniture, gift and antique stores going out of business. One building on a main street has had 3 separate furniture stores go in and out with in the last 2 years.

I would go the traditional estate sale route using a local professional. There is a new show on cable called Cash & Cari... Cari is a professional auctioneer with her own auction and re-purposing business. On the show she conducts estate sales. I have watched three separate sales all had antiques and collectibles (lots of them) plus modern/contemporary items. Those sales she was able to net an average of $6500 for each family during the 3 day estate sale. If she gets a typical commission that means the family pocketed about $5000. Without antiques your 1 to 2K might be all you can expect.

Alternative....donate the items. Check with your tax person, you may be able to get a write off to reduce your taxes by 1-2K or more.

teaberryeagle,

To make things simpler for you, in the upper right corner of each post ares some buttons, one of which is labeled as "More."  When that button is clicked upon, a drop-down menu appears with "Edit Post" being an option.

If you want to add things to a post, one can click on edit and be taken back into the "window" where one enters one's information.  Then when done "editing," one can click on "Submit Post" and your new data will be added to the previous entry.  I'm not sure how long after a post has been done that one can still edit, so if it doesn't show up with the edit option, then you would need to do a subsequent post.

With regards to two of your previous posts, as a moderator, I deleted them as they were exact duplicated information as is in your later posts.

Terry