* By Paul Farnell,
  co-founder of
  Salted and
  SiteVista. He
  presently lives in
  Edinburgh.

Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it’s “worth?” The only way you’re ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. Paul Graham: Stuff