Selling a bunch of Heroscape- advice wanted

My checks always work out that I have the least amount of money during the year when it's time to get people gifts. It's great to be paid hourly and work for a school district! So the only two people that I bought gifts for were my girlfriend and her 5-year-old son. No one else.

I read up on Space Ghost and had no idea what to get him. He has great taste in games and seemed to have everything he'd want. He is big into obscure 80s titles and adventure games, both of which I know next to nothing about. Sometimes I'd come across something that I figured he would like, such as Kingdom Death (which I couldn't afford anyway) only to find that he already had it!

At Christmas a guy gave me a $25 Target Gift Card when the X-Wing starter was selling for about 30 post-tax. How could I not?

I was basically just staying afloat until I got my tax return. I filed it ASAP, and... got the $20 5e D&D starter. At least half of the X-Wing stuff I got were gifts, although I probably shelled out somewhere between $80-100 on ships. I felt terrible talking about purchasing games and still not making good on my gift-giving. I ship stuff very rarely, and I still kind of felt anxious about whether Space Ghost would like what I got him.

My apartment lease with my friends who I was diverging from was going to be up in June, and so was my girlfriend's. We decided to move in together. Somewhere along the way, I thought it would be a good idea to move into my parents' old house, my childhood home. It overlooks a beautiful park, and is enormous.

And old. And a huge mess made by decades of people keeping all kinds of stupid stuff. And my brother, who got into a nearly fatal motorcycle accident about 2 years ago had been living there before he got hurt. He became paralyzed, but survived. But the house just sat there, collecting dust and cobwebs. So my girlfriend and I think, "eh, okay, we can put in a little bit of elbow grease and live in our dream house. We'll help my parents out by paying rent less than we'd get for the square footage elsewhere but a whole lot more than the nothing they're getting now."

After spending most of our weekends and a good chunk of our evenings and days off cleaning the place up, we ask my dad to get the water turned back on. It works. But it's cold. My dad and I go to turn on the water heater and we just can't light the pilot. I read that water heaters typically last 10-12 years, and ask my dad when he replaced it. 1999! And my brother who had been living there since 2004 never made any repairs or replacements... to anything. The night we found out about the water heater, my gf storms out of the house sobbing. I think, "that's it, this relationship is over." But I talk my way through it and encourage her, meanwhile not knowing what's next...

We ask about the furnace- my dad had told us before that one might not work. What I didn't quite understand was that the one for the main house definitely didn't work, and the one that "might work" heats up just the addition my parents made in the 1980s- the master bath and bedroom. At the same time, I'm looking through the basement and seeing a lot of green pipes.

At this point, we're totally done with the place. But we have about a month to figure out where we're going to live. She definitely wanted to leave her current living arrangement and I was ready to move on from my bachelor palace.

We find a place in two weeks, and we're pretty excited. Things have actually been going great! A co-worker of hers had a beautiful 1 year old puppy that we took because said co-worker didn't have enough time to give it enough attention. Gaming lately for me means trips to parks playing Pokémon Go, Sorry Sliders on the kitchen table, or playing old games with the boy on my original playstation.

He just started kindergarten in late August and had his first soccer game yesterday.

Last night, the fiancée reminded me that I still haven't sold all of that Heroscape stuff I was talking about, and it's still taking up a lot of room in our 2 bedroom.