Getting Rid of Stuff

[canesisters]

I'm FINALLY getting rid of my 'renter' in a couple of weeks and then there's going to be a LOT of purging of junk out of my house!
I was just telling my sister that I was looking at the kitchen over the weekend and realized that once she takes her stuff, and I get rid of my stuff that she uses but I don't, I'm going to have several empty cabinets. WHOOT!

 

[Nyboy]

Cane are you going to get another roommate or live alone ?

 

[canesisters]

Planning to go it alone for a while. I'll be missing the extra money - but it's been so difficult having someone so totally opposite in my house that I'm ready for some solitude - at any cost.

 

[digitS']

Yard sale?

I'm not good at selling things, or even giving them away.

• "Don't want that? Yeah, I'm really embarrassed to have brought it out here ..."
• "Don't want that? Shows what you know."
• "Hey! Where you going with my stuff!"

Steve

 

[Beekissed]

Yard sale?

I'm not good at selling things, or even giving them away.

• "Don't want that? Yeah, I'm really embarrassed to have brought it out here ..."
• "Don't want that? Shows what you know."
• "Hey! Where you going with my stuff!"

Steve

I'm even worse...if they won't buy it, I give it away, just to get rid of it. The last yard sale I had took me 2 full days and many helpers to move stuff outdoors, the sale was a 3 day sale and, in the end, a family came, bringing a flat bed and making two trips, to haul off items I gave away for free. Some of that stuff I had carried around for years and it had value, such as antiques and such, but there was NO WAY I was moving that stuff back inside.

I only made $1200 on that yard sale, everything at rock bottom pricing or free, but I was so very glad to get it all gone I would likely have PAID that much to have it taken off my hands. There comes a time when a person just needs to jettison that millstone around the neck and move freely about in this world.

 

[thistlebloom]

@canesisters

 

[thistlebloom]

@baymule is right. A cross country move will do wonders for any hoarding tendencies. That is, if you do all the packing and moving yourself. I had a mental room full of stuff that meant too much to me to let go of.

It's amazing how I started jettisoning that stuff when the pile of absolute necessities made it clear there would be no room in the truck. A lot of the room in that truck was dh's work tools. We could make one trip only and rented one of the biggest Hertz trucks, towed a vehicle behind it that had all of our clothing inside and our bikes on a rack behind, and I followed in the pickup with all the dogs and cats crated in the back. Beverly hillbillies style, haha.
We had one rocker and a footstool for living room furniture when we moved in .


Since then, I have given away boxes and boxes of books that I brought and don't use enough to justify the space they use, and I love books, so that wasn't easy. But I could have been preemptive and given them away before moving them 1200 miles.

After 16 years we have built up a new collection of stuff . I plan on a brutal purge when my work season ends.

 

[so lucky]

We have been set to have a garage sale several times, but the DH always backs out.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I've got quite a few boxes labeled Garage Sale waiting for a good weekend to have one.

 

[baymule]

We have been set to have a garage sale several times, but the DH always backs out.

Just do it anyway.