My name is Dee Cluttering and this is MY NEW BLOG. I am an unemployed EX-Wife otherwise known as a DISPLACED HOUSEWIFE....this is my claim to fame.
I am no longer MRS. Womanizing Cheating Wealthy MAN....this has its good points and bad points.
The first being that I am no longer married to MR. WCWM....this is good news!
The bad news, is although the court system deemed me employable, and left me without reabilitative alimony, directly due to the biased behavior of Judge She is In my Ex-Husband's Pocket, I am not.
My only asset is a rather large home, over valued in a crashing housing market filled with CLUTTER, that I am learning slowly, HAS A LOT OF VALUE, even though it looked like a bunch of junk to me. This blog will document my journey and wisdom gained through the LUTTER removal process. I have learned much already this year. For my first post, I will share some of that wisdom with you.
I have heard start your own business DEE, well I attempted to do just that and got ripped off by an unscrupulous landlord, who unbeknowst to me, allowed a THIEF to also rent a store in his mall. After being robbed by said antique thief when I attempted to sell some indian artifacts that I owned and some coins, I decided I probably should not rent space at the mall. The owner a friend of the THEIF's father agreed and promised to return my security deposit and cost for lighting he insisted that I install. This wealthy man ripped me off to the tune of some $1600,plus five months of wasted effort.
This theft is the subject of a current police investigation. It has been ongoing for the past 6 months and neither of said theives have been arrested, NO search warrant has been obtained, nor have my possessions been recovered yet. I am told this is in progress, but personally I do not think that the police care that I have been robbed and may even think I deserved to be robbed, because of my naivite.
I personally feel that we live in a world where people CAN and DO walk into your home, steal your property, and seem to have more rights than you do to YOUR PROPERTY, in the eyes of the law. THIS SHOULD NOT BE.
Here is some of what I learned from Selling my ANTIQUES, JUNK, Trash, Family Heirlooms, etc. TO DATE:
1. Never let an antique dealer remove your antiques from your home, without YOU attached to them. Even if they take photos and give you a signed inventory list and insist that your property must be authenticated prior to establishing a sales price.
If your property is to be authenticated, then you send it to the place they designate or you bring it there, ONLY!!!!
2. If you do let them remove your things and they are not promptly returned, GO IMMEDIATELY TO THE POLICE and report the crime, even if your attorney boyfriend is claiming they are reputable individuals and you are panicking.
3. I repeat go immediately to the police, YOU HAVE BEEN ROBBED!
4. Your possessions are probably worth a good deal more than you can imagine.
5. Let me repeat this: YOUR POSSESSIONS ARE PROBABLY WORTH A GOOD DEAL MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE, so you are a sitting DUCK to most potential purchasers.
6. Antique Dealers, know that you don't know. Their job is not to educate you, though they will surely promise to do so. Their job is to get your valuable article out of your hands and into their greedy hands for as cheaply as possible to maximize their profits. Think USED CAR SALESMAN at all times when you are in the vicinity of Antique Dealers.
7. Before allowing any antique dealer to visit you at your home, get their name and address, years in business, business name(s), phone numbers and check them out. In pennsylvania you can go to this site and check anyone out for FREE......past crimes, past DUI's, past misdemeanors, past lawsuits....
If I had known about this, I would have known that the person who was in charge was a THIEF and had served time in jail, despite having been born into a very reputable wealthy american family and a TRUST FUND of his own and would NEVER HAVE ALLOWED HIM IN MY HOME, despite the advice that I use him by said former attorney boyfriend.
8. Wealth does not necessarily make you a charitable, honorable person who would not cheat others of lesser means. Having more money than you does not make a person HONEST, in fact, they are most probably dishonest, in my humble opinion.
The Antique dealer was wealthy. He still robbed me.
The landlord was wealthy too, he is married to an attorney and ripped me off and refused to return my security deposit and cost of fixtures already installed in my store, as promised.
Learn from my naivite, most people today are not honorable, especially when they promise to be!!!!
9. If at all possible, have a friend witness any transaction you make with an Antique Dealer.
10. If you sell your CLUTTER on ebay or other available alternate sites, instead of nothing, YOU WILL GET SOMETHING. It is a free market trade between you the seller and the buyer.
If I had gotten $1 for each item stolen I would have been ahead of where I am now. I would not have had to waste my time documenting the theft to the police, frustrated with the police slow investigative and arrest process, nor would some of my property be sitting in their evidence vault, without my ability to sell it. Another negative.
Trust yourself, YOU ARE TRUSTWORTHY.....everyone else is questionable!!!!!
Please visit my ebay store and give loving homes to my STUFF.....it needs a new home.....and I need the money to pay my mortgage!!!!
Oh and one last thing, I love to hear your comments, I want your help so feel free to give it to me and share your experiences here with others. Tell us what we don't know, help us to help ourselves. Everyone needs a little help sometimes....ME, I need a lot ....I believe that knowing you don't KNOW....is a sign of WISDOM.
If you have any questions on the divorce process or seek my personal advice, feel free to ask away in the comment section. If I can help I will or perhaps a reader can help you. I promise to respond as soon as possible.
wishing you wisdom in this transitional phase of your life and.......
ME TOO!!!
Yours Truly,
DEE CLUTTERING
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