Seems everyone is watching hoarders - my sister says every time she finishes an episode she goes straight to one of her closets and gets to work. Yesterday I was the happy recipient of some wonderful old family photos.
Btw
Whenever you put certain punctuation marks in a new forum title, it causes an error every time one posts to it. If you're getting the same error I am, it's because of the / in it.
We should have done a huge purge before moving to Florida. Instead we did it not long after.
An encyclopedia set from the 90s? Value: approx. 20 cents for heating in a fireplace, or ballast material.
Once in a while we pick a room and force decisions on every item in it: keep it; throw it; donate it; sell it. Very few things are sold. We have way too much shit sometimes. It's not because we feel a need to accumulate things, but these are things that have outlived their usefulness, or been replaced, or are broken and let's get real: we aren't ever going to fix it.
This week I started going through my house, basement and garage to get rid of old stuff.
All this time I thought I was different than those people on the tv show Hoarders.
I don't have piles and pounds of old newspapers and magazines, but I had a bunch of old Playboy mags and comic books that are taking up more space than their worth.
I don't have clothes, kid's clothes and toys from the 1970's and 80's, but a bunch of clothes I'll never fit again and was too lazy to donate. There weren't any non-working appliances, but there's bed frames and pots and pans that are just taking up space.
Couldn't believe I still had stereo equip, speakers and surround sound from the mid/late 90's and early 2000's.
I mean really.... Receivers, carousel CD and DVD players, dual cassette decks, and house speakers.
All these years, conditioned to believe that the more "Stuff" that I had, the better/wealthier I was.
Now I know it's just the opposite.
