Osler's Razor

Yesterday I read a magazine which advised that everyone should have three ways to raise cash in a hurry. Given that these methods should be safe and legal, I was stumped at coming up with three. Here is the best I could do (other than toasting and selling marshmallows, as pictured here):

1) Sell My Collection of Historic Toothpastes

Painful as it would be, I would have to part with the half-used tubes of toothpaste I have carefully gathered in the back of my medicine chest. Over the years I have acquired some quite unusual and rare toothpastes, including one which seems to be only for dentures. I would also be able to sell my collection of historic spices, but sadly IPLawGuy "cleaned out my spice box" on a visit a few years ago. Up until that debacle, I was the proud owner of cinnamon and cumin purchased at a store which closed in 1987.

2) Tap into the Strategic Petroleum Receipt Reserves

At some point, I must have thought you could donate gas receipts to charity or something, so I started saving them. Anyways, I'm pretty sure someone on eBay would pay for that, right Prof. Bates?

3) Sell my old hockey equipment

High up in my attic, behind college French textbooks, is a bag full of hockey stuff. The bag bears my number, 13, which I chose as a kid to demonstrate I was the "Boy Without Fear," which was much less important than the fact that I was more accurately described as the "Boy Without Hockey Skills." (Actually, I did have one skill, penalty-killing, which unfortunately is both unglamorous and not very important to a team's success). The stuff is kind of in bad condition and sorely out of date, but somewhere there must be a market for that.

So, what would YOU sell in a hurried emergency?