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Post by beergut on Apr 8, 2015 0:49:33 GMT -5
Hey, it was a great idea at the time!!!
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cronewitch
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Post by cronewitch on Apr 8, 2015 2:50:44 GMT -5
My dad always said when the house is full move. Some stuff isn't worth moving so while packing you can get rid of stuff, I hope he didn't mean keep buying bigger houses for your hoard.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 8, 2015 8:22:46 GMT -5
I was just looking at my house - which seems to be getting smaller as I stack stuff in the corner, or buy a new piece of furniture that will store my whatevers - but I was thinking that it should be required to pack all of your stuff every 8 years or so, put it all in boxes, put it all in a truck - furniture and all - stay in a hotel for 2 days and then unpack the truck. As you have to touch your stuff twice, and put it all back into a cabinet or on a shelf, I bet you are more likely to think "I don't need all this shit." I think I will try and take one day of vacation every 2 or 3 months where I just pick and room and resolve to throw out at least one giant trash can full of crap from that room. By the time I finish, it will be time to start again.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Apr 8, 2015 9:06:03 GMT -5
I am not a hoarder. I am a collector. So there. There is a fine line, yanno. I'd tell you where that fine line is, but I cannot find it underneath the stuff in my house.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 8, 2015 9:09:17 GMT -5
No comment (my decluttering count for 2015 is 62 )
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 8, 2015 10:24:11 GMT -5
We have one room that I recently found out the kids call the "hoarder room". Where everything that we don't know what to do with gets thrown. When it reaches the point where we can't walk through it we purge (about ever 5 or 6 years).
Basically DH and I are too sentimental about stuff. Stuff the kids made, stuff we inherited etc. Also projects we mean to get to "sometime".
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 8, 2015 10:29:41 GMT -5
Uh.......we have a 3' pile of magazines stacked up in front of the fireplace. There are more books in this house than you can count. Our combined CD collection would stock a decent music store.
And we're not going to talk about my closet, where I have 3 different sizes in it and can only wear 3 things even though it is stuffed to the gills.
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lynnerself
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 8, 2015 10:42:16 GMT -5
How about several boxes of Kodachrome slides and a slide projector?
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 8, 2015 10:46:03 GMT -5
I never thought I was a hoarder until I had kids...... I am still 100 times less sentimental then my husband, but the combo of getting old and having children turned me into the next episode of that show
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Post by Malarky on Apr 8, 2015 10:56:21 GMT -5
I'm in the process of unloading a cabinet in the dining room with an aim to purge and reorganize whatever is left. Does anyone need me to wrap anything? Because it appears that I have enough tissue paper to wallpaper the entire house if I'm so inclined. Office supplies? Need staples or erasers or index cards? What about loose paper? Lined, unlined, colored, graph and every color under the rainbow. Assorted sizes. And keys. We're good about keeping spare keys all in one place, but what the hell do they all go to? We have two doors, three cars and 500 mysterious keys. What I was expecting to find was tablecloths, placemats, cameras, photos and artwork from elementary school. Those are there, too. In far greater numbers than I remember.
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Post by billisonboard on Apr 8, 2015 11:05:37 GMT -5
How about several boxes of Kodachrome slides and a slide projector? Hey, at least you have both and not just one or the other.
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 8, 2015 11:06:26 GMT -5
I moved 8 years ago & have 3 boxes in my guest room closet that have never been unpacked. I'm pretty sure I don't need whatever is in those boxes but don't want to throw them away just in case.
My dining room has so much crap stacked in it you can hardly see the table. I will pat myself on the back because one thing in there is a giant bag of shoes that I am donating to a charity that is specifically requesting used shoes. I think there are about a dozen or so pair.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Apr 8, 2015 11:08:35 GMT -5
I packed up a lot of stuff in preparation for putting my house on the market, and I did discard a lot of stuff at the time. Lots of VHS tapes that I had recorded off the TV, and never watched again. Curtains that I'd never reuse. All sorts of odds and ends.
Now I've decided I'm not moving for a while, and am bringing all the stuff back from storage, and purging more of it. Some things have been sold on Ebay. Still have too much stuff. There's going to be a neighborhood garage sale in a few weeks, and I'm sorting out things worth selling.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 8, 2015 11:15:04 GMT -5
I moved 8 years ago & have 3 boxes in my guest room closet that have never been unpacked. I'm pretty sure I don't need whatever is in those boxes but don't want to throw them away just in case. My dining room has so much crap stacked in it you can hardly see the table. I will pat myself on the back because one thing in there is a giant bag of shoes that I am donating to a charity that is specifically requesting used shoes. I think there are about a dozen or so pair. Good! I'm still under someone else's time line! There are about 6 boxes in the basement from my move 2 summers ago that remain unpacked. I can't just get rid of them, as the remote for my TV, my favorite robe, my blue ray player and the silk rug I bought in Turkey is someplace in them.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 8, 2015 11:22:00 GMT -5
We have one room that I recently found out the kids call the "hoarder room". Where everything that we don't know what to do with gets thrown. When it reaches the point where we can't walk through it we purge (about ever 5 or 6 years). Basically DH and I are too sentimental about stuff. Stuff the kids made, stuff we inherited etc. Also projects we mean to get to "sometime". I have a room like this. I really need to get rid of the stuff in it. I have tons of trash bags full of clothes my kids can't fit into anymore. I keep saying I'm going to donate it, but I never get around to it. I also need to take the Christmas stuff out of there and put it in the storage shed. I need an assistant.
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Post by busymom on Apr 8, 2015 11:25:50 GMT -5
LOL Ratchets! Now is the PERFECT time to go through all of your "treasures", & figure out what you'll never need, & get rid of it.
I'm STILL in the process of cleaning out my parent's house. If my Dad knows how many of his treasures were worth nothing, & went into the trash, I'm sure he's spinning in his grave!
Unfortunately, in the process of cleaning out my parent's house, now mine is getting bad. Once DD is home for the Summer, she & I are going to be listing a LOT of stuff on the Facebook selling sites, to see how much we can get rid of.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 8, 2015 11:26:10 GMT -5
This is what I have to say about this:
My father was helping DH and I identify the massive number of keys in the key drawer. While cleaning it out, I found an upright kitchen knife, that my father 'put there for safe keeping' so it wouldn't go through the dishwasher. Apparently it belonged to his grandmother and he was 'saving it.'
I did not react well to an unsheathed knife hidden in a drawer I reach in daily.
He also kept two rings of keys that go to a building that was demolished in a hurricane in the 60s.
I am really good at throwing things out without remorse.
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Malarky
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Post by Malarky on Apr 8, 2015 11:26:41 GMT -5
I threw away a couple of boxes that had been in my basement for 15 or so years after I moved into this house. I have no idea what was in them. It was right before they started charging for trash here and I was trying to get rid of as much stuff without extra charges as I could.
They may have been unpacked from previous moves. I have never missed whatever was in them. Although that may explain my missing ice skates....which wouldn't have fit anymore, anyway.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Apr 8, 2015 11:33:45 GMT -5
Isn't this scary how much stuff we accumulate without even trying?
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 8, 2015 12:04:49 GMT -5
Now that we are retiring in 3 months, I keep telling myself we will deal with this stuff. And attack all the unfinished projects.
I think I may be deluding myself.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Apr 8, 2015 12:07:37 GMT -5
Jeez....I'm like that too and I detest clutter. We need to have one hugeYMAM garage sale. However, no YMAM member can buy another member's junk. We cannot enable one another.
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Post by shanendoah on Apr 8, 2015 12:09:42 GMT -5
C has hoarder tendencies, and he knows it. He recently started trying to purge stuff from our basement in preparation for us moving this summer. I am proud of him. But he wants me to come down and go through "my" stuff. While some of the stuff down there is mine (and I am pretty good at getting rid of stuff), one of the boxes in particular was jewelry - his mother's jewelry. I had to say, that's not mine to go through. We have a number of things from his mother's that are just sitting on boxes. She passed in 2012.
However, I can't blame him too much for things that are 3 years old. We have at least one (possibly two) boxes in the basement from when we moved in 10 years ago that have never gotten unpacked. I know EXACTLY what is in one of them. And I've told C- it's been there for 10 years, we knew what it was, and we've never needed it. It can go. But he's like "but we didn't have kids then, and we do now, so maybe we'll use the ice cream maker your mom gave us and the really cute ice cream dish set we bought." At which point I remind him that we eat ice cream less now that we have kids (and want to keep their sugar intake low) and that the ice cream dish set, while cute, is acrylic, so he never wants it to go in the dishwasher, which means it has to be hand washed, which is why it was only used like once after we bought it (in our previous house) and has happily stayed in the basement for TEN years.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 8, 2015 13:14:32 GMT -5
Nobody go in my basement. There is crap down there from when my grandmother lived in the house, she died in 2004. DH keeps putting stuff down there insisting we will use it again someday.
It's not as bad as my parents' basement. If my DH is a hoarder than my dad is a hoarder on steroids. Their basement is crammed full of random stuff and there are itty bitty pathways thru it all.
I told my mom I am not going thru all that when they die. I am coming over with a can of gasoline and a match. Problem solved.
DH used to have this GIANT box of random papers in his spare bedroom. He tried to haul it with him to my house and I told him we weren't getting married if that fire trap was coming along for the ride. He insisted we had to go thru every piece of paper before he'd throw anything out. I found stuff from GRADE SCHOOL. DH was born in 1973.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 8, 2015 13:27:44 GMT -5
Nobody go in my basement. There is crap down there from when my grandmother lived in the house, she died in 2004. DH keeps putting stuff down there insisting we will use it again someday.
It's not as bad as my parents' basement. If my DH is a hoarder than my dad is a hoarder on steroids. Their basement is crammed full of random stuff and there are itty bitty pathways thru it all.
I told my mom I am not going thru all that when they die. I am coming over with a can of gasoline and a match. Problem solved.
DH used to have this GIANT box of random papers in his spare bedroom. He tried to haul it with him to my house and I told him we weren't getting married if that fire trap was coming along for the ride. He insisted we had to go thru every piece of paper before he'd throw anything out. I found stuff from GRADE SCHOOL. DH was born in 1973.
You UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by TheHaitian on Apr 8, 2015 16:03:16 GMT -5
Ok I am cleaning out my basement this summer :eek::eek:
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Post by Robert not Bobby on Apr 8, 2015 16:13:49 GMT -5
I'm a minimalist by nature and like clean lines and open spaces in my house...no clutter. But my garage is a different story. Not any kind of hoarder, but when there is too much stuff in one place, it becomes hard to find things...duh...and then you stop trying to be organized...slippery slope.
I know all my tools are in there somewhere.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 8, 2015 16:14:00 GMT -5
Y'all must know my DH. There's never been an item that came into his possession that isn't "valuable" or he'll need someday. He recently came across a box of stuff that was never unpacked when he and his ex got divorced and he moved out. It has a bunch of things that will never be used, including a set of brass salt & pepper shakers that are turning green and crusty. His man cave is full and he has stuff throughout the house. I keep trying to sneak things out of the house, but it's hard because he will see an item in the donate pile and exclaim we "can't throw that away! I got that from XXX or XXX gave that to me".
He spent over 7 years in Japan when his kids were little and we just recently gave his daughter's kimono that she wore when she was about 5 to her. We still have his son's kimono in a wooden box along with some other stuff from when the kids were little. They're 29 and 33 now!
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 8, 2015 16:22:30 GMT -5
We have a room in the basement that is stuffed with boxes that TD never unpacked from his move from Saudi.......in 1993! There is enough crap in this room that we need a dumpster to empty it out. In fact, I'm going to suggest that when we have to hire a dumpster for when they do the roof, we make serious inroads into emptying out that room.
Hell, you can't even get to the water heater!
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Post by bean29 on Apr 8, 2015 16:47:39 GMT -5
No comment (my decluttering count for 2015 is 62 ) LOL, I refuse to count what I have decluttered - it seems like a huge waste of time to me. I have decluttered lots of my own stuff, but when I get to the stuff of other family members - they are never as willing to part with it as I am. Sigh. Maybe Thyme's idea would work for my family - pack it all in boxes then unpack it all.
DH "cleaned the garage" in fall. I wanted him to donate stuff to goodwill or habitat...he just moved it all to another property we own, so eventually we will have to go through it all and toss it out. Grr. I should one thing from the garage in the garbage can every week.
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Post by bean29 on Apr 8, 2015 16:59:25 GMT -5
Y'all must know my DH. There's never been an item that came into his possession that isn't "valuable" or he'll need someday. He recently came across a box of stuff that was never unpacked when he and his ex got divorced and he moved out. It has a bunch of things that will never be used, including a set of brass salt & pepper shakers that are turning green and crusty. His man cave is full and he has stuff throughout the house. I keep trying to sneak things out of the house, but it's hard because he will see an item in the donate pile and exclaim we "can't throw that away! I got that from XXX or XXX gave that to me".
He spent over 7 years in Japan when his kids were little and we just recently gave his daughter's kimono that she wore when she was about 5 to her. We still have his son's kimono in a wooden box along with some other stuff from when the kids were little. They're 29 and 33 now!
When my MIL was providing daycare for my kids she was at my house a lot. I would sneak stuff in the garbage can, and she would pick it out of the garbage and ask DH if he wanted it . I gave up for a long time. I try to give stuff to good will now - I put it in my own car, but recently DH went to put something in my car and found my Goodwill Box. I don't worry about only having a few items...I just drive by and drop off the stuff before I get caught. Even stuff from my kids that they tell me to get rid of, DH will claim he knows someone that can use it and then it will sit in my house forever. You just have to develop your stealth skills.
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