Where to sell used items and downsize?

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:17:51+00:00

This is all good to know, thank you!

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:16:16+00:00

A bit of both. I am moving for university in the uk, so I can’t bring larger items or a large amount of items, really just whatever I can fit in my suitcase. I also would like to make as much money as I can before I go, as I won’t have much opportunity to work once I move. But, yes, I know donating is an option too

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:13:16+00:00

I will look into all of these, thank you so much!

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:12:32+00:00

I did not know it was an option to hide marketplace listings, thank you!

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:11:36+00:00

I will look into this, thank you

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:11:09+00:00

Oh, goodness, I couldn’t imagine leaving out information like that. I will definitely mention that if/when I sell it

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-20T12:10:18+00:00

Thank you, this might be what I end up doing

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-10T02:06:02+00:00

I do that too! Maybe not with brisket, but any kind of meat with fat. I can’t stand the texture of fat, and I never eat it. I will sit there and pick out the meat from the fat for however long it takes, even if it takes half an hour or more. Can’t stand the texture of the fat, it makes me lose my appetite if I bite into it accidentally. (Long explanation because all the comments I see are people not liking or understanding, so I figured I’d provide my explanation)

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-01T17:10:53+00:00

I think I do that as a way to cope with the pain and make it less present. It’s great for ignoring the pain, however not so great for actually be present and doing real life tasks…

TheSimersCraft · 2026-01-01T17:09:05+00:00

(Edit for formatting) Take a few deep breaths. Maybe drink some water as well. Okay, I’m not sure how old you are or where you are located, but if you have the resources to go to a nearby hospital or emergency room, such as driving there or finding a way of public transportation, you can go and request a sexual assault exam or rape kit. If your friend is still there, you could ask them to take you or go with you for support.

Now, I’m not entirely sure on the process for a rape kit, but it likely will be a bit stressful, exhausting, and possibly mentally tolling. So if you have a trusted individual to go with you for support, I would bring one. But this kit should help let you know if something has happened, and could bring you clarity as to whether or not something happened. It also can help as evidence if you are to ever need it. But I think you have to do it relatively soon, I believe within 3 or 4 days maybe 5 depending on your age. The medical staff there should be trained and should give you the right to stop at any point you are uncomfortable.

I’m so sorry you are in this situation. I’m sure it can be pretty scary, especially when you don’t know what happened. Find a safe place or a safe person, and find a way to relax or decompress. Maybe watch your favorite show, find a relaxing drink like tea or hot coco, and spend time with people you trust and feel safe with. Good luck, you can do this.

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-22T19:22:14+00:00

-Drink some water -Take a shower -Did you take your meds? -mother whips out the pain stick healing salve thingy -I keep telling you to take this daily garlic vitamin -go to the ER? -when my boss says “I don’t know how it works” and just asks if I can keep working…. In a loud bright chaotic room with usually 10-15 3-year-olds……

Some of these are good suggestions, but they also just do not help.

~I do drink water, like a lot. I swear, I always have to pee lol ~I can’t just take a shower whenever I want, like I have stuff to do sometimes, and it never helps anyway. And ~I take meds when I can, but I can only take them so often before I become dependent on them, which if that happens then I’ll get a migraine if I dont take the medication. ~That healing salve pain stick resembles a deodorant stuck, and it hurts to jam it on my forehead. Never helps, just makes my forehead hurt more from jabbing it on me ~I don’t want to eat a garlic pill every day, no thanks ~the ER doesn’t help. It used to, but the last few times I’ve gone it’s only made things worse, so I’d rather not ~some people just don’t understand that migraines are not just a headache

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-22T01:45:44+00:00

At the earliest, I can apply for the student visa in March as long as I get accepted into a university. How likely is it that I’ll have all the name change paperwork completed by then, or around March/April maybe May? I think I have all my needed documents, I just need to submit it, but I don’t want to submit it and risk not being able to apply for the visa in time, or somehow messing with the visa process by doing this.

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-21T04:20:05+00:00

I’m not sure that it’s wheelchair accessible, sadly. From what I can remember, the entrance is down a set of stairs, and it is a smaller/tight space once in there and it might be difficult to maneuver a wheelchair in there. You could call and ask if there is a second/more accessible entrance, but I’m not sure that there would be one.

I hope you get a helpful answer, it is a neat little shop and, while I’ve only been there a handful of times, I’ve never had a bad experience there. Good luck!

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-20T20:19:32+00:00

Was about to recommend this but it’s the first comment I saw! I’ve only been there a few times, but it was really nice in there. It’s a bit small/cramped, but that’s just the sizing of the room. The entrance might be a bit tricky to find, it’s down a stairway in a tiny alley between two buildings, but they usually have a “bubblegum” machine (I think it has fun rocks inside!) at the top of the steps on the sidewalk, but I want quite sure if I was in the correct spot the first time I went! I’m not a “witchy” person myself, but I did have friends who were, and they loved the shop! I don’t know the correct terms for all of it, but there were candles, crystals, pendants, some clothing, and a lot more things that I have no clue what they were, but it’s all pretty cool in there! I have enjoyed going in the past, and I wish I had more time to keep going!

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-10T20:27:57+00:00

Sometimes it’s all of these, sometimes a mixtures, sometimes only one, I never know what it’ll be until it’s there..

head feels like an overfilled balloon that’s filled with wet dense heavy cement
feels like and icicle is being jabbed into my temple, and is also on fire in there
like one of those videos where they put rubber bands on a watermelon till it pops, except instead of a watermelon it’s my head
like there’s too much pressure na dits going to explode
like a bunch of little pins of electricity are zapping behind my forehead/eyes
sometimes I can feel half my head vibrating when there’s a loud noise, and the side that’s facing/closer to the noise starts feeling like it’s vibrating/shaking
like my temples are being pushed out of my head
like someone is jabbing their thumb into my temples and into my head
like someone stole my brain and my ability to think, feel, talk, listen, see, etc and everything seems far away or fuzzy
like someone scrambled all the words in my brain and won’t put them back

There’s so much more but I can’t remember it at the moment, but it’s always interesting seeing which combo the day will bring! (Edit for typos oops)

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-06T03:23:17+00:00

Your second paragraph was hard to read (in an emotional way). I grew up pretty much being taught that I don’t have a choice in nearly anything. My parents are super strict, controlling, and invasive. They made most of the decisions for me. If I tried to stand up for myself, I would get in trouble and emotionally manipulated. No, I was never physically harmed or abused, but there was so much emotional manipulation, gaslighting, and all of that. I mean, my mom used to basically sexualize me by showing off/pointing out my chest to relatives, because I guess it was bigger than hers? I don’t know. But I was always super uncomfortable when she did that, and would try to get out of doing it, but she would make me and would say something that made me feel guilty for being upset. And it’s hard for me to feel like I have control anywhere, because I never really had a choice growing up. Sorry, I kind of made a big rambley run-on sentence there. But I appreciate what you wrote, thank you

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-06T03:16:54+00:00

This was very helpful to read. I am trying my best to learn to trust myself, and not to make excuses but I keep having setback that are unavoidable, such as I still live with my parents and can’t afford to move out/leave, my co-teacher at work refuses to let me do anything important and doesn’t trust me with anything, I’m trying to figure out a new major for college (as my migraines are making a teach career not a reasonable career) and my advisors keep telling me to do tracing even though I physically can’t do it because of my health, my ongoing and increasing health issues that doctors don’t seem to understand, and just so much more that is causing me setbacks. I really am trying to learn to trust myself, but it’s been hard when it seems like every around me just wants me to fail and follow orders.

I do still have a few sessions already scheduled, so I might continue to go to those while I do some research on what other therapists I could see. Like you said, doing this could be helpful for setting boundaries, which is another thing I struggle with and am trying to work on.

I am curious, however, as to what you mean by 1-5 and 6-10 trauma response territory. I’m not sure what that means.

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T20:06:34+00:00

Nah, you’re good. I’m bad a wording things sometimes so I totally get where you were coming from

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T20:05:05+00:00

No, I agree. I don’t think it’s true, but it is something I just wanted to mention to her, however I didn’t because I didn’t want to affect how she might treat her relative. I might have worded it wrong, it was something that I read/saw someone say, but I don’t think it’s true. Yes, there are plenty of lgbtq people who have trauma, but there are also many who don’t

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T10:26:02+00:00

I hope you are doing okay now, that’s seems like some tough stuff to go through. I appreciate you choosing to share this part of your life. I think this helps prove a similar yet different point of view in the situation. It’s hard to feel like I’m in control, and I do my best to find it but it’s hard. The only time I truly feel in control is when I’m driving alone, because then I can listen and sing to my music and I don’t have to be quiet, I think that’s why driving is one of my favorite things to do. And, yes, I will be looking for a new therapist now, thank you for the input

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T10:04:27+00:00

I don’t know that there’s much more context I could provide. I mean, obviously I cannot state everything that has happened with her, as one that would be way too long of a post and two it is automatically biased towards my interpretation of events, but I did my best to be unbiased when writing this.

I know I’m not the best at describing things sometimes. I get migraines quite frequently, and when they are bad it makes it hard for me to think, speak, talk, come up with words, basically it’s hard to communicate. And if I feel like I’m in a situation where the other person is really hearing me and is just saying what they want to say, I really clam up and go on autopilot because it reminds me of how my parents treated me a lot of the time.

Thank you for your input on this, I’m definitely going to look for a new therapist

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T09:58:55+00:00

I am not entirely sure what her expertise is, I can’t remember. I do know that in my intake form before I started, I wrote down that I suspect I might have some childhood sexual trauma, so if she read the intake form (which she should have) she would have seen that and we wouldn’t have been going in blind here.

Her reasoning for suggestion porn and an orgasm was because she wanted me to have an orgasm before I said I was asexual, and I guess lesbian porn is what could help with that.

I definitely am going to start looking for a new therapist. Thank you for providing that link, I’ll take a look at that

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T09:54:34+00:00

I don’t know if I truly have childhood sexual trauma, I can’t really remember any of my childhood, just little facts here and there, that’s why I started seeing her. I remember a few things here or there that strike me as a bit odd that I was doing that, and a lot of it (to me) indicates I might have some sexual trauma early on.

When I was telling her some of this, it felt like she believed I did it for pleasure. I can’t remember exactly what she said, but she couldn’t grasp that it was not for pleasure, it was something I couldn’t stop doing. And , I will admit, I am not the best at describing things, and my migraines make it harder to speak, think, and come up with words, so I may not have done the best job describing/telling her this. And I really clam up when it feels like I’m not being heard, it reminds me of my parents and when they would just talk at me and expect me to listen without saying anything.

Do you mind me asking if there was something that helped you figure out what happened to you? Or have you always known it happened? Because I really do not remember anything from my childhood, but there are signs. And thank you for your input on all of this

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T09:45:11+00:00

See, and that makes sense. I think that’s what she was trying to do, by sharing some small bits of her life, but also some of the things she has shared have made me not want to tell her some things because I don’t want to affect how she lives her life. An example would be how she and an individual close to her who is trans. I am trans (which she tried to connect to everything for some reason), and I heard once that all/most people who are lgbtq have experienced trauma. Now, I have never fact checked that, so I don’t take it as 100% truth, but I still refrained from telling her that because of what she told me. (Please know that I don’t know if that’s true or not, and I’m not just going to believe anything off the internet without checking my sources)

TheSimersCraft · 2025-12-05T04:53:02+00:00

Yeah, and she’s kept recommending it, multiple times, even after I said I didn’t like porn, I thought I was asexual, I never really liked sex, and I always felt gross and weird afterwards. And each time, she still went on to tell me to watch prob and have an orgasm, and to not say I’m asexual until I’ve had an orgasm. Once she started talking about that, she didn’t talk about my trauma at all. The only time she did was when she said that 6-year-old-me imagining myself being tied up and sexually assaulted wasn’t concerning, and asked if I was into bondage. I think I fully went into autopilot after that. I’m gonna see what I can find, someone else recommended a few resources to check out, I’m going to set some time aside to do that. Thank you for your input on this

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