Sell my mobile phones? Don't mind if I do.

I am sitting at our little living room desk as I type this, and in that desk drawer are not one, not two, but FIVE old cell phones, going all the way back to my original cell phone that I got back in 2005, a phone that is almost comically devoid of features: it could only make phone calls, if you can imagine!

The thing is, I don't know what to do with them. Every so often, I've upgraded my phone -- whenever the company says I can do it for "free" I go ahead and do that because their free is my "I pay you billions of dollars per month for all these services, thanks very much, so I know it's not free at all"-- and when I've done that, I typically take the old phone and put it in a drawer because what am I going to do, throw away a perfectly good phone?

So I've got this collection of instant antiques and nothing to do with them... until I came across a website that lets me figure out the best way to sell mobile phones.

The site is called "SellMyMobile.com," and what it does is provide instant comparisons of the various people who will buy my phone. It's almost impossibly easy to use. I went there, put in my cell phone make and model, and I get all the sites that'll buy that phone from me and how much they'll pay. I then only have to mail my phone to them and get cash back a couple of days later.

I know: there have been phone-buying sites around for a long time, but I don't want to go searching around for them and trying to compare them and reading all the details. What am I, made of time? Of course not. That would be ridiculous. Time is a whole 'nother dimension. People can't be made of time, unless they're some sort of comic-book villain...

...I digress. The point is, I've been saving up for a Kindle Fire, and now I can unload this space-taking-up collection of old crummy phones and put that money towards my new tech stuff, killing two birds with one stone. Metaphorically. I've got nothing against birds.