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What's the best US site/app to sell stuff?

Sorry about your mom, op. That ain't easy.

The only thing I would say is if you have siblings, cousins, nieces/nephews, check with them to see if they can make use of any of it. Knowing members of my family got those things was worth way more to me than whatever I could have sold them for.

Good luck

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Request: A person who was an introvert and is now not or still is?

The biggest thing for me was learning, remembering, and using people's names. This may not be helpful for everyone (and that's okay), but it helped me be a more confident person in social situations.

Growing up I was painfully shy and awkward, but I had fantastic semantic memory and always did well on tests in school (does this sound like you?). One day, after I heard someone say "I'm terrible with names, sorry if I forget yours", I decided to heck with it! I'm going to be good with names! If I can memorize pi to however many digits, I can memorize that many names of human beings.

And it helped me :) People like it when you remember their name, and they like you more for using it. For me, unfamiliar things are scary, but knowing someone's name makes them a familiarity. Plus, there's a devilish part of me that delights in remembering someone's name who clearly doesn't remember mine. I always offer it easily, to not embarrass them. But it's a reminder that everyone's out here struggling to make connections just as much as I am - and I can handle it.

Ps: it's nice if you can let the person see you learn their name. It can feel creepy for a person to know your name without you telling them. If you learn someone's name without them telling you, all you gotta do is hit them with a "your name's Alex, right? Got it, thanks! I'm Daniel" and then you're covered