Mostly of interest to Adelaide people, probably
So, I'm moving country, which means getting rid of most of the things I own. Fortunately I left a thousand books behind a couple of moves ago, so it's not as difficult as it could be, there's only about 500 left. And some furniture. And everything else in the house.

Except not everything, just the things I don't care about quite enough to ship to the UK. There are some clothes that won't fit in my suitcase, because apparently I have four coats now; some art supplies I know I'll have to rebuy the moment I want to draw something, if I don't bring them; some board games I'll definitely play again (Ebbe and Flut squeezed inside the Citadels box, which is squeezed inside Carcassonne). And some vegemite and biscuits and Haighs chocolate, because I know you claim there's food in the northern hemisphere but I don't really believe it, and you certainly don't have chocolate-coated Scotch Fingers.

So I've got a few cubic feet of the things I really want, and another cubic foot or two of stuff that's no good to me or anyone else but which I can't bear to throw out because it has sentimental value, which is shorthand for "is so precious to me that I'll put it in a damp box to rot in my mother's shed for twenty years and then throw it out". And then a huge pile of everything else in the house. How do pyramids work? I have this conviction that there's an inner sanctum with the pharoah's important stuff, his organs and masks and servants, and then more rooms outside with the things that he'd like to have in the next world but, you know, baggage allowances these days, and shipping costs are frightful, and he doesn't really need that two-hundredth tunic, and surely there'll be somewhere he can get kohl in the afterlife, so never mind about those, but maybe squeeze in another packet of Delta Creams.

A list of the stuff that doesn't quite make it to the inner sanctum is here. Do you want some of it? Free if you only want a couple of things, AU$2 per thing if you want more, and if you're in Adelaide you'll have to collect it yourself. If you're not in Adelaide, I can send it to you, but you'll have to pay for the postage from Australia, which is terrifyingly expensive. It might still be worth looking at the books in case there's something you desperately want, but it's unlikely to be cheaper than getting it from the local second-hand bookshop. Books seem to weigh about 200-500 grams each; postage costs by boat, which would probably take a couple of months to get to you:
$8 for up to 250 grams
$12 for up to 500 grams
$20 for up to a kilo
$30 for up to 1.5 kilos
$35 for up to 2 kilos
An extra $5 for each additional 500 grams or part thereof.
That's Australian dollars; divide by 2.4 to get pounds, 1.3 to get US dollars, or multiply by 6 to get Ancient Egyptian grain withdrawal chits. Add about fifty percent again if you want it by air, which takes a week to ten days. Bargain prices if you buy bulk: $800 plus shipping for everything in the house.