@swimcatsmom, that’s Fantastic!
@swimcatsmom Good for you!!!
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I am thrilled for your progress, @swimcatsmom!!! Really happy for you.
I"m delighted to hear all this!! @swimcatsmom, you’ve been dying to do this for a long time now, and it’s fantastic to hear about your progress!!
Rocks, huh. Now I’ve heard it all.
Brava, @swimcatsmom! You have been working hard - so glad you have been able to achieve such impressive results!
Oh, the rocks! DS2 adopted rocks from the yard, and there are a couple of shoe boxes’ worth on his window sill.
Woohoo!! Great job!!
Wonderful. I have been waiting for your post!
A GF of many years is now dealing with your situation.
Her H has filled the entire lower level of their home, underneath their deck, sheds in the yard plus
4 storage units at the tune of $1200 a month. GF is the sole provider and soon to retire. She has never
complained until now. Her H is quite resistant but at least their financial adviser made it clear that the $$
spent will harm them over the years. Two garage sales were a drop in the bucket.
Ouch! $1200 a month!
Our storage unit is about $600 a year. I figure we have spent upward of $10,000 since 199? Storing other people’s old appliances that he went through VA phase of going round collecting. That is next on the list to go.
Yes last year they spent 13,000 on storage units?
Holy ?. And I thought I had it bad!
$13,000 in some parts of the country is rent on a pretty nice apartment.
That’s nuts. I mean, really. You could sell all that sutff and then buy new for less than a one-time cost of $13,000.
Happy Day! H is gone until Saturday. Nephew and wife left this a.m. I am searching around the house with a bag in my hand and purging. I love it! There are three full bags in the closet and there will be double that by Friday when I do a drop off. My largest project is the study cabinets. Anyone want 3,000 staples?
Just put 6 bags by the front door, to be picked up tomorrow. But I admit - I have a bag of stuff from a recent purge, and I’m feeling inclined to give it a last look before putting it out. I think I will do that after dinner, then get rid of at least what I’m sure of.
Last bag is out, and I only kept 1 pair of jean capris.
This thread gives me hope. As i age I am finding a cluttered house more and more emotionally draining. With the both of us doing business out of our house and a kid getting college crap in the mail constantly, I reached my breaking point. But as I looked around at the piles of random stuff here and here, I never found myself in the mood to tackle any of it. Sooooo…I pasted an ‘ad’ in our community’s Facebook page for someone to help me re-organize my life. This spitfire of a 70!year old woman shows up at my house once a week for an hour and we, together, knock out several piles. Took about two months but my house feels like a home again to me. She has agreed to come to my house now and knock out any new pile which has been created that week. I am in love. I don’t need a housekeeper but I sure as heck need her!
Anyone have a convincing argument to talk husband out of keeping about 10 banker’s boxes of albums? I mean, sure, keep Dark Side of the Moon and Maybe Thriller, but we don’t even own a turntable anymore.
Tell him they’re more valuable if he sells them. He should be able to get Real Money for some of those.
One of my D’s has a very small (300 square feet) apartment in NY that she’s lived in for one year. She never really organized from the beginning and, as she’s known the owner for many years, agreed to store some things and has also been hesitant to get rid of things. It’s been a year of moving items to walk around, not being able to find items, etc. This D isn’t naturally an organizer and things got pretty difficult. She watched a few Marie Kondo episodes and mentioned how she’d love to do that with her space. I offered to fly out and help her.
It took about 3 1/2 days but we did it! Sent 4 big boxes to a Veterans organization that sends you a UPS label and you just drop off the boxes. We threw away about the same amount. We then organized the two closets (one is her pantry), every drawer and every nook and cranny. The result is pretty amazing, if I do say so myself. I’ve left town but my D is thrilled which, of course, makes me very happy. She has a couple things left to do which involve buying things. I hope she follows up but I’ve committed to myself that I won’t nag.