Queer-friendly closeouts · a corner of Sell My What

Buy, sell, pay. Our way.

For households nobody handed us. Downsizing, moving in together, moving on, or handling a place after someone we loved. Everything opens at $1, no reserve, pickup only.

A worn leather jacket over a mid-century walnut armchair by a Chicago bay window at golden hour
Somebody's chair, somebody's jacket, somebody's records. The apartment is going. The chair doesn't have to.

How we do it here

No haggling, no negotiating, no games

You've had enough of that. It opens at a dollar. Bid what it's worth to you, once, and go back to your day.

Come as you are, bring a friend

Pickup is a driveway, a back porch, or a freight elevator. Nobody is going to ask you anything about yourself. Bring the strong friend, bring the husband, bring the ex who still has the van.

The story rides along

Every piece can carry a line about where it's been — bought on Halsted in '94, moved four times, refinished once. You get it when you pick it up. Keep it or don't.

Two older men's hands passing an oak chair between them on a Chicago back porch at golden hour

A life, in objects, in order

  1. 1978 · Rogers Park

    The oak table that fed people who couldn't go home for the holidays.

  2. 1991 · Boystown

    A leather chair somebody sat in through a decade of bad news and good friends.

  3. 2004 · Andersonville

    The dresser two people bought together, in the month they decided to be serious.

  4. 2026 · a truck, leaving

    Yours now. Same wood. New room.

For the estates nobody prepared us for

A lot of what moves through here comes from a chosen family cleaning out an apartment for someone who is gone, and doing it without much help and without much time. We will never rush that. Photograph the rooms when you can, we write the listings, the sale runs one weekend, and whatever finds a person finds a person. What's left, we say goodbye to honestly instead of pretending it was worthless.

Nobody has to explain who they were to each other, or who you are to them. The winner gets an address and a one-hour window, and comes to you.