November 18th-I just checked my ad. This is three times in an hour. Eight times today.

I am selling an "Acrylic Claw Foot Bathtub". The bathtub is "well-shaped". It is beautiful, and although it looks heavier than everyone else, it is not. Another selling point! A person of medium size and strength can pick it up, wave it over his or her head and use it to do bench presses.

What's more wonderful is that I am back in the game. Back to work. Part of the world of buying and selling.

I am a retail player. The world is my playground, who knows where buyers might come from, what their stories might be and how much they will give me.

We all have some Betty in the yard. We can criticize this gene, which causes people to post notices on telephone poles, unfold their 8-foot-long tables, get up early on Saturday mornings, and set them up like they are in a Bloomingdale department store window. Put their merchandise. Even if we don’t want to admit it, we understand the sales boom.

Our neighbors like yard sales and held several events last year. Friends contribute. Friends sit on folding chairs with her. Friends bring donuts and coffee. Friends are not eager to go to any other places, but sell, chat and visit each other. Some of them are antidote to loneliness in the past two years, and there is no better way to exorcise the devil than holding a courtyard auction.

However, don't underestimate the pleasure of selling. Regardless of the amount-$2, $5, $15 or $40-what matters is the satisfaction of unloading something that is no longer useful or out of space and turning it into a few bills. Entertainment money, ice cream money, lunch money.

This is almost better than making hundreds of millions of dollars, because a stack of banknotes is instant, visceral, and tangible, and no one will lose sleep because of how you protect it. If these boots are used for walking, then the money is used for consumption.

Take my friend Steve as an example. He is Roger Federer among surfers. He may have as many surfboards as Federer’s rackets. He buys surfboards, collects surfboards, and then finds surfboards from friends and people who live inland but have ocean and surfing dreams.

He stuffed it with wooden boards, which leaned against the fence, leaning against the back of his house and in his office. It may be that his wife advised him to lose weight and lose weight. He sold seven boards with a thousand cash in his pocket, and for a while, he became rich.

Then, he did what any sane person would do in his position, he spent all his money on a new custom board (or two), and then it was like Grant took Richmond. Burned the money. That's spending money, not hoarding money.

When I listed the acrylic claw foot bathtub (still available), I checked my transaction history to see my sales history. I have had a series of successes and I will feel good without any professional or financial home runs.

I sold two "stand-up paddle boards", an "elegant bar" with storage space at the back, a "very beautiful wine cabinet", five super healthy sago palm trees (you want them, you Dig them out) and Milwaukee 120 V handheld blower. I don't remember why I sold them and what I did with the money, but I remember my light when the transaction was completed, especially when others dug up those sago palm trees.

I watched the new advertisement again. No discount for 37 views? What's wrong? Is it a photo? Acrylic claw-foot bathtub (still available) sits on the cracked concrete garage floor, in front of a dilapidated round wooden table, half a bag of potting soil, an old gray bicycle with a basket in front, and an abandoned rain gutter Workbench on top. The bathtub did not say "buy this". It says: "I am a refugee. Please call someone."

It's ok. I got 103 views, and two people asked if it was still available. I will be very hot soon, and the water in the acrylic claw foot bathtub will be very hot.

Herb Benham is a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and can be reached at hbenham@bakersfield.com or 661-395-7279.

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