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pbj:
I'm just glad you're getting away from that dented fridge and your neighbor's floodlights.

:cheers:

ChadTower:

Moved my mother into 55+ housing last month. Nothing motivates one to assess their own house and clutter situation quite like moving someone who has serious clutter problems. I've been on a rampage in my house getting rid of stuff lately and haven't even scratched the damn surface.

What's the best thing to do with stuff like game specific monitor plexis for cabs that are long gone?

dkersten:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 27, 2017, 10:20:10 am ---
Moved my mother into 55+ housing last month. Nothing motivates one to assess their own house and clutter situation quite like moving someone who has serious clutter problems. I've been on a rampage in my house getting rid of stuff lately and haven't even scratched the damn surface.

--- End quote ---
My ex wife was a borderline hoarder. When we finally got divorced, there were several piles of junk mail stacked up in our bedroom (about 6 piles 3-5 feet high). The day she started digging into it all to get her ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- packed up, she got about half way through and turns to me and says "Maybe we should just try to work this out and not get divorced." She was dead serious. I just laughed and walked out of the room. 99% of the clutter in my house left with her, and it was such a huge relief. The only thing we didn't overhaul at that time was the garage. I gave her everything in the kitchen (she had 2x of every pampered chef item known to man) and I told her that I get the garage. It took over a week of hauling stuff out of the house when she left.

We "pre-packed" what we could before the house went up on the market, and most of it is seasonal stuff and there is maybe 5 boxes of crap that isn't a part of everyday life. Including all the lawn equipment (like mower, snowblower, etc), all the seasonal stuff, and that clutter, it barely takes up 1/10th of a 10x20 storage shed. I think my garage will end up taking up 3/4 of one 10x20 storage shed by itself, and in the last 2 weekends I packed 15 boxes and will end up with a dozen large totes for the smaller power tools alone. But the rest of the house, barely anything left we don't use.

ChadTower:

Yeah, I'm working on it for sure. I'm like most of us around here with so many hobbies that the tools/supplies/parts just pile up. Continuously.

fallacy:
I will be paying off my house this year, it took 9 years but it will finally be done. Part of me wants to sell and by something really nice and big but another part is just like I won’t really get anything I don’t already have. Probably end up doing is buying a second place for an investment, sucks that everything went up 30% in just one ---smurfing--- year at the time I am ready to expand.

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