@dentmom4 - good to know. I’m probably going to keep it. Who knows? Maybe I will use it! Ha ha!
I love sterling silver!! I have two full sets – my grandmother’s and my MIL’s – and one half set – my great-grandmother’s. Through the years I’ve collected matching serving pieces. I really enjoy using it. It also happens to be beautiful!
I pulled out all the inherited silver and fine china, and had a girl’s night pot-luck dinner. Told them the table would be fancy, but wear jeans. Had a great time. Decided it was time to use them rather than have them stored in a box. They’re back in the box, unfortunately. Sigh.
I also have multiple silver flatware sets, my own and inherited. We use it every meal. Everything but knives goes in the dishwasher.
We use the Waterford and Spode every meal, too. Not too worried about breakage at this point in my life. Multiple sets.
I put the crystal in the dishwasher, too, for a long time, till a piece broke. Even though I wasn’t worried about losing it, there was a mess to clean up.
My motto: "Gracious living through the apocalypse "
just because, why the heck not? and why not be comfortable as possible as our world unravels.
Another set I have is white with a gold rim. It can’t be put in MW. Every size. The large salad plates have a small,picture of a fish in the center, maybe 1-1.5”. So nice. If it weren’t for MW, I’d make them my everyday dishes.
Yesterday I brought 10 bags of clothes to Goodwill for donation. It was so good to get them out of my garage. Today I am taking the ladder to pull all the paint cans that my seller left behind on a high shelf in the garage. I’ve been in the house almost five years, so I’m sure none of the paint is good. I will take note of a couple of the codes, and then take the cans to the paint store, where they recycle.
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Wow, I have no silver. We eat most meals on paper plates with heavy plastic utensils that I clean in the dishwasher.
As for the topic of the post: My town is having a free day at the dump tomorrow. Oldest son and his gf came over, masked up, and pulled out a big cast iron pipe from the basement, we’re tossing an old chair, a futon from Grandma’s and a ton of yard waste from 3 different houses, along with some old furniture and tools. SO excited!
@99Techmom - Wow, I can see how that would feel really great!
My husband has been going through our pile of old devices (phones, ipods, ipads, etc.) and selling them back to amazon or apple. Good way to get rid of them and you get $ for them.
@kiddie: How do you scrub them of all data?
My husband is retiring soon and so needs to clean out his office. His office looks like what our house would look like if I hadn’t spent every day of the past 20 years vigorously pushing back against his accumulation tendencies. I’m exhausted, btw.
So I rented him a storage space and begged him to bring his office stuff directly there without bringing it to the house. He loves it. He has never been able to resist the lure of an empty surface, so no surprise that he’s thrilled with his very own 10x10 vacant space. He’s brought over lots of his stuff from the house, too: CDs, medical journals dating back to God knows when, accessories from the many hobbies he’s tried out and put on hold.
I know this isn’t getting rid of stuff. But for the first time in decades, he’s actually looking at his possessions, organizing them, even occasionally giving me something to donate. I feel less overwhelmed, and his clutter spaces look so much better. Worth the money.
I am very pleased. I got rid of our futon that DD took to grad school housing and wasn’t supposed to bring back into our house. I had to deliver it, but it is OUT. Freecycle since GW and SA are not taking stuff like that. I Nextdoored old TV and stand and have someone interested. Old basement rec room is getting pretty empty! YAY.
@frazzled1 , this year stinks to high heaven, so thanks for your post that made me smile. Nice to know that small good things are still happening for people.
I’ve resisted the storage shed, but may crack soon, with the excuse that we need to empty the basement so we can finish it. But really a dumpster would do the job for me.
@MomofJandL, when our next door neighbor got a dumpster last month, I was green with envy. She’s really well organized - the dumpster was only there for a week. I would need more time or a bigger dumpster.
apple devices have a factory reset you can do in the general setting option we did that for the old iphones, etc.
@frazzled1 : How long do you expect your husband to keep the storage unit? Is this a forever thing??
Good question, @VeryHappy. We expect to be moving in the next year, and if our new house has a full basement, he’ll be able to put his stuff there. If not, I guess we’ll be renting a 10x10 storage unit wherever we wind up. There are better ways to spend $120/month. The investment in my sanity will be worthwhile.
Remembering the “Hoarders” episodes where people rent MULTIPLE storage units and still have a fully hoarded-up house, though.
@frazzled1 - our experience has been that storage places raise the rent every few months. I wouldn’t count on that cost staying at that amount. We absolutely had to have storage for awhile when we were in transition. However, we downsized our storage unit when we could and then eliminated it when we could.
A family member had her storage unit monthly billing on auto pay on a credit card. When the card expired she forgot to update the billing information, and the contents of the unit were discarded. Ouch. I’m not saying you should leave the payments to your husband and hope this happens to him, but I’m not saying you shouldn’t.
@MomofJandL Storage is the one bill H paid. A real source of stress when he had cardiac arrest and they put him in a coma. I finally found the passwords and got it fixed, but dang, I didn’t consider that might have been the easiest way to empty the unit 