I cleaned out 2 junk drawers a few weeks ago. Among the things I found were 2 Toyota keys. We haven’t owned a Toyota since 1988! It had obviously been a long time since I cleaned out that drawer.
It’s when you find the keys and can’t remember what they went to and you’re afraid to throw them away…
Had an overwhelming desire when computer guy came to update some stuff to drag out all the useless equipment, adapters, etc and ask him which if anything I needed to save. Missed a golden opportunity but did ask enough to discard quite a bit.
Back of my car is filled up again. Some days I’m ruthless, some days sentimental.
I’ve been getting rid of stuff left and right the last month. Had my floors refinished and that entailed moving all the furniture out and everything from all the closets. So, every drawer was gone through and all the closets and I purged tons of stuff - clothes, shoes, bags, linens, etc. I have a stack of coats waiting to go to the cleaners when they start their coat drive. Yesterday was hazardous waste drop off in town and H took old tv, microwave and a bunch of other stuff from the basement. Today I made a bag of plastic water bottles, thermoses, travel mugs to go to recycling. I swear they must give birth in my cabinets there were so many.
We had our house cooling party yesterday (we are moving in two weeks). Family came over and took 5 lamps, electronic piano, Lazy Boy chair, box of albums, turntable, 40 year old Schwinn bike, but no liquor. The original plan was to get them to split up all the liquor.
BernesMtnMom–I’ll be right over.
Darn, @gouf78 beat me to it.
I got rid of our Air Hockey table! I don’t think anyone is going to miss it except the cats because they liked to lay on top of it…
Still have the air hockey table. Supposedly a friend of my H said he would take it but that was months ago.
I just brought home quite a number of new pairs of shoes. I should clean out a few bags of old shoes.
SIL and her H took our foosball table last time they were here. We have no cats to miss it 
Ha! Just pulled one drawer out of a side table and had H look through. Turns out one of the bibles he has no idea why
we own ( and I sure do not) and the other he put in the go away pile.
He has many packages of silver leafs from his time in Pakistan 50 yrs ago. He cannot part with and suggested we eat (us no). So they remain.
The two issues–my one dead sis who had a mother of pearl covered prayer book–and not one family member would care for at all, even in her memory which only about 4 of us would even have…
I wish we had the old burn barrels. I could totally go for a little goodby as it burned. But the garbage? or donation?
does not fit.
The other item is my own First Communion Rosary. It is made of fine crystals from 1957. I know that the
crystals are nice and trying to think of what to with them–make bracelets or what?
I am so not sentimental but these two have me stuck. How to get rid of the first and how to recreate the second.
OH! I do know that the church has ways for disposal. Just saying I do not care and will not follow their guidelines. Just on my own now and will dispose the way I see fit.
Otherwise, H did a fine job releasing at least a few things.
Rosary is a lovely momento that takes very little space. That would be worth keeping.
^Who would I be keeping it for?
The kids will just need to dispose when we die.
That is the problem overall–no one wants the waterford or the rosary or…
Most of us on this forum are struggling with all of this now.
My BGF just had to clean out her SIL’s apartment after he died last week. It has been awful for her to figure out what to do with things. His kids just wanted the TV and such.
Churches usually have libraries in them-you could donate the bible to a church? They’d definitely take care of it.
Virtual bag of the week-got rid of DirectTV, just using Netflix and Amazon Prime now. Finding it’s fine except H can’t watch football, and that’s becoming an issue, so we may get Sling. Still saving $200/month with the directv bill gone.
Got D17 to go through all her closets and her bedside table. One trash bag for goodwill, one trashbag for the trash. I sat with her and helped her, because she’s REALLY resistant to the “OHIO” technique (Only Handle It Once) and was just moving stuff around and endlessly re-sorting it. The OHIO technique is that once you put your hands on something, you MUST send it to its final destination, whether it’s the trash, hung up, or in a goodwill bag.
She was grumping that it meant she kept having to get up and move from her piles of stuff, but I countered with that’s how you get exercise when you don’t like exercising. She relented and we made fantastic progress once she stopped moving the stuff around and actually OHIO’ing everything.
I need to follow the OHIO technique. I havent heard it before, but I do exactly what you described your daughter doing!
Last weekend, I visited my daughters in NYC, 1,000 miles from here (“home”). This weekend, I’m trying to get myself to work on cleaning up the house again. The contrast between being with my dear children and being at home, taking apart my and our past, is large; I’m thinking perhaps I should do something else this weekend that doesn’t break my heartstrings.
You guys are inspiring me. Cold chilly weekend, and I am ready to start purging again. My step daughter is here, and I suggested to my H that they go through some of her stuff. She’s almost 25, and HE still keeps her size 10 (kids) clothes around, the toys, etc. I think it will help him to see that she doesn’t care about the stuff.
Yay MOfD! Love your virtual bag!!! I need to throw out mine, too. $100 a month to watch 15 min of CNBC a day is insane. Comcast, are you listening?!!
We are currently having our master bathroom remodeled. In addition to all of stuff we threw out when clearing it out, there is now a very large dumpster in our driveway! Woo hoo! H is already talking about what he is going to get rid of.
Woo hoo
Retired a bunch of old Wolford hosiery to the garbage can! Wow, that stuff LASTS, but after 3+ years of non-stop winter wear it is time to say goodbye to it and clear some space for the newly ordered tights and holdups from Saks’s F&F sale.