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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 29, 2014 14:22:26 GMT -5
I'm thinking of helping them disintegrate. I already do that to his shirts and underwear.
Last weekend, we went shoe shopping for him. Why? Because the Asics that he had been wearing for the last 2 years were falling off his feet, the soles had split off the uppers and they leaked. He walked out of Clarks with 2 pair of shoes, put one pair on and threw the pair he was wearing into the trashcan outside the store.
At this point, IMO he still needs a new pair of Tevas and a new pair of sneaks before we go on vacation.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 29, 2014 14:25:36 GMT -5
He did get rid of like 3 bags of books last week.
There is a ROOM downstairs (yes, a room) where TD has paperbacks stacked up against the end of the room, waist high. I will bet that he has not opened those books in 15 years. I tend to buy books, read them and either sell them back to the store or donate them to either Goodwill or the library. I'm thinking about telling him that I am going to start gathering together my books and ask him if he wants me to get rid of some of his.
Then we need to start working on the wine......
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Post by sheilaincali on May 29, 2014 14:35:33 GMT -5
We've been planning this downsize for a while and have two years to go. So this year we've made a goal on not buying any physical books or magazines. So all new books are on the kindle or borrowed from the library and we are down to like two magazines a month and we got those on the iPad.
He's actually walked away from a few potential purchases once he realizes that it's not something he'd want to pay to store when we sell the house. It's been awesome! I should have thought of this sooner. So far the only things he has bought this spring have been a handful of plants for the yard (updating the curb appeal) and one pair of shorts (after I threw out a pair of his that I flat out hated)
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 14:38:08 GMT -5
I have boxes and boxes of books too. The main reason I'm keeping them is older son is such a voracious reader and I'm thinking eventually he may start going through them.
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Post by imawino on May 29, 2014 14:50:54 GMT -5
He did get rid of like 3 bags of books last week. There is a ROOM downstairs (yes, a room) where TD has paperbacks stacked up against the end of the room, waist high. I will bet that he has not opened those books in 15 years. I tend to buy books, read them and either sell them back to the store or donate them to either Goodwill or the library. I'm thinking about telling him that I am going to start gathering together my books and ask him if he wants me to get rid of some of his. Then we need to start working on the wine...... whoa, whoa, whoa. What does this mean??! Working on drinking it? Because one does not "declutter" wine as though it is useless garbage. Unless one wants to send it to me, of course.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 29, 2014 14:52:30 GMT -5
Can I interest all you wonderful purgers in my mother's house? She's on vacation I literally can't think in her house, the clutter is overwhelming.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 15:00:36 GMT -5
I have boxes and boxes of books too. The main reason I'm keeping them is older son is such a voracious reader and I'm thinking eventually he may start going through them. MPL - hate to break it to you, but he's never going to read a single one of them.
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Post by sheilaincali on May 29, 2014 15:20:50 GMT -5
I don't know about that. DS has read most of DH's books. I just gave two big paper bags full of DS' old books (mostly Harry Turtledove's) to a co-worker for his 13 year old son. The kid was thrilled.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 15:47:52 GMT -5
I have boxes and boxes of books too. The main reason I'm keeping them is older son is such a voracious reader and I'm thinking eventually he may start going through them. MPL - hate to break it to you, but he's never going to read a single one of them. There's quite a lot to choose from. My stepmother was a buyer for Barnes and Noble and was constantly giving us books over the years. He has read the Lord of the Ring series from out of those boxes and there's a lot of horror. King and Koontz mostly. If he ever gets into that, there is enough to keep him busy for awhile. Right now he's big into sci-fi.
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