If you live in a college town, try the gym. Or even not in a college town. But at school, H and his friends made a lot of extra $$$ moving things for people. They’d just go into the club and ask.
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Looks like I have buyers for the rest of the outdoor furniture. I need to sell an old watch to a local jeweler and an electric piano to guitar center. This cleaning out before we sell is physically exhausting (and I have the bruises to show for it)!
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Dropped a bag of clothes off today at the Value Village thrift store.
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I did drop a car trunk load of stuff last week for donation but now am “reorganizing”. A shelf fell in a closet last week and since everything had to come out to start over–I’m starting over. It’s like a circus–started with an act in one ring and expanded to three. My husband keeps asking–“So have you thrown anything out?” Answer: “Nope! Not yet!” (beyond what I have already).
The reorganization has made a huge difference. I’ve consolidated boxes of stuff and saved a ton of room. Added shelves. And I think I can find stuff because “like is with like”. We’ll see. Still a work in progress. Crossed fingers!
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I took a box to recycling and a bag to a thrift store today. I’ve cleared out much of what I’m going to and yesterday started rearranging the newly cleared space in my finished basement to make myself a craft corner, including a table to keep my sewing machine set up instead of making room every time I want to use it. I’m so excited!
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I need a linen intervention. Duvet covers are my weak spot (one of many). I have lots of them and every time we go to Ikea I come home with another one…
That is gonna take time, but I know one part of the linen monster that I can accomplish in less than an hour: beach towels. Over two decades of hosting a lot of visitors, we’ve collected dozens of them.
I just need a ruling. How many beach towels does a family of four need? Is it four? Eight? Tell me and I’ll be ruthless!
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Are you near the beach or a lake? Do you have a pool? Go to a pool? In my house, six or so would suffice, since we use them about once a decade. So it depends on your needs.
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I have reduced our family of 2 who are not beach people down to 2 beach towels (just threw the others out recently)
As my house closing is getting closer I am more like a bag a day. The junk removal people looked at my inventory of furniture to remove and told me I will fill a truck and a half (this is after getting rid of everything that was carriable both inside and outside). I have had absolutely no interest in any of my inside furniture from my facebook marketplace postings.
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Also, I have completely struck out trying to sell a 15 year old Movado Museum Steel band men’s watch. Jewelers don’t want it and no luck on marketplace.
A few years ago I realized we had over 20 beach towels! And we were a family of 4 (now empty nesters).
I kept the nicest, thickest ones and a few others (H insisted on keeping the Green Bay Packers towel), decided to keep 6 and got rid of the others.
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I would get rid of a dozen beach towels but used them all for a roof leak (since fixed) and dog washing, and defrosting refrigerator and…and…and now I think I need more. Probably just need to find a spot in the garage for them. Can’t give them up quite yet. Might actually need one for the beach.
My reorganization is doing well–almost done. But it expanded to four rooms (all at the same time so total chaos). Still haven’t thrown much out. But instead of a ton of boxes sitting out in rooms making it look like I just moved in–it now all fits nicely with room to spare. And I can find stuff!
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I just cleaned out my outside beach towel container. A local dog/cat shelter will take them for either the store or the shelter ( these are definitely for the shelter ). I’m so happy to find a place to take stuff!
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I also reached a point in this journey where I was keeping everything and re-organizing by category. Now I’m so happy I saved all the toys because my granddaughter is 15 months. Along with my daughters, she is loving the 90’s toys.
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Fellow linen lover here. We have a pool and supplied towels for ALL the kids friends for over a decade so coupled with my love of linens and a local Costco we acquired MANY. Just recently pared it down to my 10 favorites.
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Our Facebook Buy Nothing group had a “junk in the trunk” event yesterday. Think flea market where everything is free. I got rid of a lot from our basement and what didn’t go there went to Salvation Army today. 3 big bags, 4 boxes and a laundry basket of items gone😀
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Our neighborhood does something that sounds similar. You say if you’re participating, and then on the given day you put stuff out by the curb, all to be taken for free, from others in the neighborhood.
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Our city designates one day each year for a city-wide garage sale. Approximately two weeks later, is a city-wide special trash pick-up (no size restrictions). I love seeing truck drivers searching the streets on that day, picking out anything left of value. Hopefully it means the items set out for trash will be recycled, used, sold or make some great art projects!
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Funny-not-funny story from a couple weeks ago - a women in the area is getting very old and I assume she’s giving everything away before she moves. She puts out very nice stuff - she had what looked like a new couch out there, carefully wrapped against the elements; various kitchen appliances stacked on sometimes good furniture. Well. There were two tables - a rickety small wood dining table, and something huge that I saw potential as a great potting bench for my garden shed (table saw was removed). Asked hubby to pick it up when he was out in the truck one day.
You guess it. He came home with the rickety small table.
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Was he thinking the table was what you wanted? Or did he want it for himself!
I saw a shaded lamp at the curb a few houses down the other night but I was walking my dog so figured I’d circle around at the end and check it out if it was still there (have found so many curb side treasures!) As pup and I were walking I saw a friend of mine on a bike ride and he had it in his hand - I was glad someone got it. Turns out it was brand new and still had the HomeGoods tag on it!!
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Here is obsession my H has when throwing things away - especially things like old useless furniture - but often much more awkward items…he wants to cut it up before putting it in the trash. We cleaning out our attic and he brought down a half a dozen ramdom (none the same) old antique chairs that needed either new caning (not the pressed in kind) or had missing spindles. Rather than put them in the trash can (one can could fit a couple of chairs and we have 3 cans) he spent an hour or two cutting them up into nice little stacks of wood - then putting them in the trash! He has done this to tables, metal, ALL kinds of things! I think he just likes the power tool use! Our joke at home is “don’t want it? Have Dad cut it up!”
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