firstly, I apologize if this may get a bit long winded...

some of you may remember my breaking up with my long distance boyfriend a couple of months ago.

I have some of his belongings packed up in boxes and not sure what to do with them (he lives in England, I'm certainly not going to ship them from Canada). I'll probably try to find a friend of his to take them for him.

Probably the biggest problem I have is I have his brand new snowboard that I bought after some misgivings when he begged and pleaded me ("I'll pay you back" to which I have yet to see a penny). It's worth $530. There's also a pair of bindings that he bought to go along with the board (I'm not sure how much they were, no receipt, but probably around $150+).

Problem is, they're at my friend's place in Washington, so I need the receipt to claim the bindings, and I honestly don't want to be bringing back a $530 snowboard as well and having to foot the duty.

I own the snowboard, so I want to sell it. Since it's a bit of a specialized board, he'll know right away that it's me selling it. I'm also tempted to sell the bindings because he still owes me a fair bit of money.

Part of me feels like I should extend a general courtesy to ask if he wants to buy the board, but what then after that? I don't want to bring them back to Canada. He said he's coming out to Canada one day, but who knows when that will be, and I don't want to be the one to have to go with him to pick up the board and bindings. I'm sure my friend will be good enough to just give them to him without me having to be there, but it's an inconvenience to my friend.

Another thing is, I really DON'T want to communicate with him. He still manages to text me once a week but I ignore them (he even sent this card which he obviously put a lot of effort into to memorialize my father's one year anniversary of his death). IF I write to him, it will be opening a dialogue I don't want to engage in. But I would also feel bad if I sold his stuff (his bindings, anyways) without at least telling him. Ugh.

What would you do?