[DoomedDuck]

Items can be sold at any time during your turn provided you aren't in combat. The section in the rules stating you can sell them prior to Phase 1 is simply giving you options of what you CAN do prior to kicking down the door, not when you MUST do those things.

Also, the Charity phase does not happen until the literal very end of your turn, after you have exhausted any other ways to get rid of cards in your hand (playing curses, selling items, discarding your current race/class/thingie to change to a new one, playing items onto the table to carry, etc.). If, after you have done these things (if you want), you still have too many cards in your hand, you then give the appropriate excess cards to the lowest level player, or discard them if YOU are the lowest level player.