Do you have things in your home right now that could be thrown away? I'm not talking about trash in the kitchen or bathroom, I'm talking about stuff, like clothes, furniture, old small appliances, things like that.
My wife likes to hang on to shit.
She doesn't like when I talk about it either.
tons. I keep giving shit away but I think it grows.
56 years in the same big house. Certified shopaholic. What do you think?
Not so much. I think the biggest pile of stuff I need to go through would be my clothes. I've got a lot that I just dont like/wear....and need to be replaced with shit I will wear.
(02-06-2015, 12:26 AM)Older Than Dirt Wrote: [ -> ]56 years in the same big house. Certified shopaholic. What do you think?
Wow! What fun it would be to go through your stuff!
Yep, its on the list to get done
Got rid of massive amounts of clutter about a year ago. Dust collecting crap. I can do it again, and still have too much stuff. Much of it is old papers (not newspapers, I mean receipts, bills, stuff like that) that Mr. Bee insists on holding on to. And my books. Can't get rid of them.
I've told a few of my friends to let me see their junk before they get rid of it. I'm enthralled with repurposing things these days. As soon as the weather warms up my first painting project is going to be an attempt at turning a big, old dresser into a buffet/storage type thing for the area where my grill is. I like to create outdoor rooms and that piece will be perfect. If it doesn't come together the way I think it will, it won't be a great loss given it was destined for the trash anyway.
When I used to help a guy that cleaned out houses that were to be sold we would walk through the house and find tons of stuff from over 100 years ago. Huge houses that had all kinds of old things in it that we would sell on the antique market and give the owners a cut on the profits. Everything we found and sold was categorized and listed, at least the things we found that was worth something. We would have to take the good and the bad and many trips to the dump was taken
He had a good reputation for being honest and got lots of jobs because of that. Houses in Mass, Conn, Jersey I spent the summer in some dusty places.
There was this one house I remember that the old people had died and the son lived in the top floor he was crazy and after they carted him off we went in and did our thing. Up in the rooms he was living in was these gallons and gallons of piss. He must have had a few hundred of them and it was the worst thing I've ever encountered. It was on the third floor so we put a pvc tube out the window and dumped it all into the sewer drain with gloves and masks and a scowl.
We did find tons of stuff that was left behind and I think the guy I was helping sold it all for over 100,000 at auction.
That was the worst one but you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
He still does it and I visit him every once in a while. Great guy with tons of info on anything old and seemingly useless. A connoisseur of clutter with a slight smell of dust and old stuff that follows him around like pigpen from Charlie Brown.
(02-07-2015, 09:20 AM)Maggot Wrote: [ -> ]There was this one house I remember that the old people had died and the son lived in the top floor he was crazy and after they carted him off we went in and did our thing. Up in the rooms he was living in was these gallons and gallons of piss. He must have had a few hundred of them and it was the worst thing I've ever encountered.
guess he was a genuine pissant!
I clean out and purge often, but manage to collect more. Since house is on market, I am once again going through things, with the proverbial sorting bins, one to keep, one to throw out, and one to Goodwill, etc....What bothers me, is lately on my size 8 jeans, I am having trouble buttoning jeans...What to do, wait until the weight from Christmas candy goes away or toss them and enjoy myself and eat whatever. I am going to try them all on today..ugh! My neighbor can wear the size 6-8 so they would go to a friend...I still have some famous autographs, antiques from my mother (in storage in Kansas with my son), antique fainting chair and antique desk which my son broke while moving it from Colorado to Kansas...Also have china from Harrods (Britain), steins from Germany, the usual, a lot of glassware (wine glasses, etc.) with Continental Airlines logo on it from days of flying....I do have a lot of shit....the really old collectibles are in Kansas, but you should see my garage. You would think it was 50 plus years accumulation. My mind doesn't work well if i am surrounded by clutter so I try to clean out stuff frequently. I have old cell phones and about 3 printers which I could never get to work. I finally bought a wireless and it worked one time...I don't know what to do with the electronics.
(02-07-2015, 06:11 PM)blueberryhill Wrote: [ -> ]I finally bought a wireless and it worked one time...I don't know what to do with the electronics.
I had an old microwave and tv out in the garage for about a year -- the dump won't take electronics.
But, the company that hauls our trash and recyclables allows customers to schedule two free curb pick-ups a year; up to 10 items and they take electronics. I didn't know about it until I talked to my neighbor last month. Maybe your area has the same type of service, blueberry?
If you throw the shit in your dumpster and bury it under bags of trash they won't know the electronics are in there now will they? Dumbasses. You can do the same thing with old paint, old prescriptions, hazardous chemicals ect... fuck it.
(02-07-2015, 07:11 PM)sally Wrote: [ -> ]If you throw the shit in your dumpster and bury it under bags of trash they won't know the electronics are in there now will they? Dumbasses. You can do the same thing with old paint, old prescriptions, hazardous chemicals ect... fuck it.
I was just going to post that....would they really know it is in there? Haha .....I like how your mind works..
Hair: I don't think our trash company does that. We pay through HOA and i am not aware of them ever having special days for special trash. I really think i will just put them in my donation boxes....someone can surely use them. They work just not for me....also have a working old TV which i am watching now, but won't take it with me. Certainly people somewhere would or could use a working TV even tho it is a fat old one....
(02-07-2015, 07:11 PM)sally Wrote: [ -> ]If you throw the shit in your dumpster and bury it under bags of trash they won't know the electronics are in there now will they? Dumbasses. You can do the same thing with old paint, old prescriptions, hazardous chemicals ect... fuck it.
I couldn't get away with that here. We've got garbage Nazis.
I put some empty plastic water bottles in the trash a couple of years ago because the recycle bin was full. The plastic bottles were in one of the middle bags in the garbage bin.
The next morning, there was a note from Sunset Scavenger on my bin telling me that they would not take my trash and I would be fined something like $200 next time it happened.
Oh yeah I forgot you're in Cali, they're hardcore. Every damn thing you buy here has a little warning that says this product is known to cause cancer in the state of California. It stopped me from buying that can of fake snow to spray on my Christmas tree one year.
Oh and the rabbit bedding too. Now I use organic cotton that costs fifty dollars a bag for that stupid rabbit so we don't all breath in cancer dust.