Not quite a horder - decluttering
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i had to chuckle as I re-read my last post. It sounds as if I ONLY have 3 boxes in the the garage!
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Why do kids always have to store their stuff at OUR house! I currently have my DS's motorcycle in the garage which I have to tiptoe around each time I go out there for fear of putting a scratch on it! It's not insured and he doesn't want to keep it at his place because it is exposed and might get stolen. He comes by to ride it a couple of times a month, so at least I get to see him once in a while...hehe!
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Maybe that's why we keep their stuff.
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Exactly, Meece!!! I'm a Pampered Chef consultant and it was time for me to get the goods, LOL!!! As I get new stuff, the old stuff goes...I don't care how long I've had it, where I got, who gave it to me, it's gone.
I think this whole BC business has made me want to start new and fresh with everything...this could be a good or bad thing...
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Meece I think you are on to something there. My MIL keeps the kids around by feeding them at anytime of the day or night. She is good at this and it mostly works well for her.
Before I knew him my husband left a piano in my MIL's garage. Not so bad you say? Wrong, the piano was in pieces. He had picked it up from someone who had planned to rebuild it, and didn't. My DH thought it sounded like an interesting challenge. When inlaws moved, piano went to junk yard.
He finally threw out his JUNIOR HIGH papers when we had been married about 10 years. I am sure his grad school work is somewhere about the house still.
I have some old things but my things are of course relevant and important, right?
Ginger
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My DS swore he had removed all of his things from our house. Then he came for a surprise visit in the winter and we went into the attic looking for more blankets. Surprise! Opened 3 boxes which contained his stuff! Now he's married and has kids. He won't let us leave so much as a toothpick in his garage although we visit once a month.
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Ginger , I think we still have our college work in a box.LOL That was forty years ago. Think we might ever need it? Why do we keep hanging on to this crap. I am going to get up the courage and get some boxes and start with DS stuff but I think I need to get rid of my excess stuff first.
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i recently ran across a box of old stuff from my moms house (she passed in 2009) and found a collection of stories my fourth grade class had written.
reading mine was fun, but what was even better was reading DHs! we were neighbors in the 1950s and went to all the same schools. got together at our 30 year HS reunion; marrried in 2005.
sorry typing is funky. slammed the car door on my thumb yesterday and yanked it out while the door was still closed. a gory sight to be sure. parking lot looked like a crime scene. but i didn"t faint!
have a fractured thumb and am typing left handed. no cleaning house for me - boo hoo.
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Blessing2011, Ouch!0
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Hall closet and coat closet, too much stuff and longer than fifeteen minutes. 0
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Thanks for the laugh with your stories of storing stuff for the kids. Planning on downsizing in a couple of years and DS already says if he doesn't come with me can I take his stuff because he probably won't have room for it. He's a Disney fanatic so has lots of plushes, snowglobes, statuettes, 'stuff', including video tapes (yes, VHS format) and other collectibles.
Blessings - ouch! ptdreamers, but you got it done - way to go.
Having busy weekend but will try and get some more stuff moved tomorrow evening.
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Patoo you could sell the Disney SnpowGLobeson EBay, they have some value. You could fund yor move that way.
Wren you could just leave a box on the front porch, ring the door bell and run.
Hugs Ginger
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I have three huge boxes of Star Wars stuff from DS3. He is looking forward to having a man cave where he can display the treasures. Better his home than my garage.
Blessings....Owie!!! Hugs
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Gingerbrew, DS has threatened to find the worse nursing home when my time comes if I dispose of any of his Disney stuff. So when he goes out on his own with him will go all the wood shelving units and, hopefully, the china closet that now houses his snowglobes and figurines, etc. If he doesn't have the room he will need to forego a BR to sleep on the floor among his "stuff".
Okay, off to church. Have a great day all.
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Every guy should have a man cave...it would save a lot of arguments. My BF has his office/man cave and I never go in there or touch anything. It looks like a boar's den...I just close the door and forget about it. I sacrificed a guest room in the house so he could have it.
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DS wants a mancave and FDIL wants a bedroom to be a closet. they aren't going to have room to house my future grandbabies! I hope they don't decide to keep them in boxes in the garage.
I'm right behind you, Patoo. Off to church then home to do something around here!!!
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happy to report, although one handed, i still got a big bag off to Good will yesterday.. i can do 15 min anyday.. it'lll take 2 years that way, but hey, im not doing anything else, either, these days.. good to see we're all chugging along.. my DH won't accept a man cave.. he uses the whole house..lol 3jays0
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Did the closet under the stairs and started on the rec room. Hubby is complaining loudly. He says we don't have anywhere to put all this sale stuff. Duh! Stuffed all over isn't the answer. I'm going to keep on sorting and hopefully he will either assist or I'll designate one room to hold it all until a sale,a tornado, or someone comes to take it all away. 0
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Hello - back after "life got in the way" again. Done traveling for work, recovered from a lupus flare and a week off work helping to care for my step dad (after surgery for stage 3a esophageal ca) I'm back. I can't believe all of you on this board and I have been in virtual cahoots! I decided May was going to be my decluttering month too.
When I got back to Michigan from Indiana last weekend, I decided to clean out all of my kitchen cupbards (14 plus a cupboard pantry) and my walk in pantry. Wash all the shelves, rearrange and reline them. What a job. I'm lucky to have a huge kitchen but it sure collects crap I don't need. I've done about 8 hours on them in the past few days (the weekend and after work) and it's a mess but it will be great when it's done.
Hope everyone who feels under the weather feels better soon and those with injuries heal soon. Now I'm off to my med onc for my four month check up and then home to continue purging!
P.S. - some of the spices I threw away had to be over 15 years old - I'm so ashamed
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suzwes, Don't be. I think I have some that are 25years old. Why do we do that to ourselves. We know better and I'm sure there is nothing of the essence left.
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Yes, true but I was still really p'oed at my husband when we moved two years ago and he threw out my Cardamom. It was only a couple of years old and so expensive that I know a double dose would have been just fine! lol
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I have some pretty darn old spice cans that still have the spices in them. I use them for decor. I really have trouble throwing any spices away, and yet I have some that I go through regularly. I have used some old spices to sprinkle in planters where I want animals to stay out. I don't know if it worked well, but I felt better putting them to some use.
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One of the spice companies said they had quit using cans 10 years ago. I think decor and keeping animals out of plantings is the proper use.
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hi gals, this week is a "drs" week. i think we have just one left.. each 4 or more hours to wait.. still, im grateful i have the ins to see them all!!!
i still managed to get a load to Good will earlier this week. sat, its take the books to trade in time.. so, a little every day doesn't seem tooo scarey!!!3jays
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I buy the little jars of spices now whenever I can find them, so when they do go out of date, I don't feel so bad throwing them away.
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Good to hear you are able to accomplish something, 3jays. Just take it easy, please.
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You all are doing great. I've been goofing off but with this new format I'm not on the boards as much so should use that time to do something around here. At least the BCo changes are of some use
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My DH and I need to get rid of stuff!!! For example what would you do with childhood books - classics - "Treasure Island" and similar? They were fine editions at the time, in the 1940's. Not good for grandkids since they read other stuff and do all the online things, too.
I guess the library will take them, but is there another place?
Tks.
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Pegnie, Try googling children's book charities and see if you get anything. I know we have a children's literacy project here which gives books to kids who may never have owned one before. I think there are others who send kids books to schools in Africa.
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