....with a nice place?

I find this funny. A few weeks ago I used a crows foot wrench that I had for 20+ years and never used. I have nearly thrown the set out several times and the only reason I did not is, they take up very little space.

I basically need to wait until I retire to get around to eliminating un needed items. I still have a 19 year old college student living in the bedroom that has the attic access, and neither one of has the spare hours required to do this properly until we no longer leave the house for 10 hours every day.

I would like to streamline to be able to move with less effort to Southern Kentucky as a retrement plan.

When it's all done and said, please update this thread with your thoughts. Every person I've ever talked to or read about who has done this says it takes 5 times more effort/time than was originally imagined. You might be the exception though, which would be great :cool:

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Just tryin' to keep OWP outta the Cars For Sale forum....nuthin' more..nuthin' less ;)

I'll even sweeten the deal with a couple of houses....virtually FREE...no "thank you" will be necessary :)

I have very few things anyone would call 'nice'. I have a lot of 'junk'. More 'frat house' than 'real house'.

The vast majority could/should go in a dumpster, I suspect that is the reason why the few nice things I have matter to me.

Even my tools are 'Harbor Freight'.

Still can't believe you did all that Curt. Good on you. I don't have a lot of stuff, but have acquired some neat Porsche and aviation things over the years. I am methodically going through it and cleaning house. Parts, lit, parachutes, etc. My dad, on the other hand.... Wow, just can't get rid of anything and hates change. I recycled much of his "stored" and obsolete electronics recently and it was like I cut off his arm when I asked to toss this 20 year old computer tower and 25 lb. CRT. Don't throw that away, I might need it. When was the last time you used it? 20 years ago. Done.

62 here. Most recent divorce 10 years ago. Apartment. Nice for me.

Briefly mentioned in another thread but here is the full story. Forgive length.

2nd bedroom for me has always been the hanging on to stuff room. A few passages of kids living with me, I now have their hanging on to stuff in the same room.

Nothing exciting in there. Ranges from Porsche manuals to Noritake china brought back from Korea in '57 for my Mom. That's the high end. Model cars, slide film from when kids were growing up, all 40 reels. Then just stuff.

Daughter took her tv last fall when she moved into her own crib. My 12 year old Sony is working but on the floor. Heavy as a beast.

Things looked spartan at best. It's not minimalist, just wrong.

Paid a lady pal to come in and clean the place and provide warmth given what I have, and purge the "stuff" except for identified keepers.

Spent five hours with her making a plan and her doing baseline prep (like a general clean and her helping me hang the TV and model car show case).

This is the result in short of day one.

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Here is the spare room after day two, the purge. I set her free. I have only been tripping over the stuff for five years. Too embarrassed to show before pics of this room.

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Next wave is wall hangings which I have plenty of. Just on the floor in closets.

Nice to come home now.

We need to hold a big ol' Pelican yard sale...everything is FREE (buyer pays s&h)...mine yard contains two freakin houses....buyer beware ;)

Let's move this crap outta here boyz...

Theadore, you're fooking wierd. I brush my teeth using the hose out in the front yard. My way of copying you while you brush yours in your marble fountain while wanking.

I used to think I needed 6-7 fun cars (and watches, and cameras, and guns, and ....) and, in hindsight, I did need them back then. These days my passion for cars and the rest is as strong as ever, I just don't have a desire to own them or drive them anymore. But I'd be happy to ride in yours anytime :D

I didnt intend on it but the hobbies I've picked up all seem to come with lots of other stuff. Woodworking equipment, wood stock, tool boxes, sails, rigging, more tools, air compressor... Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing with all this stuff. Then other times I'm deep in a project and loving life working, making or fixing stuff. I wonder if you get to a point where the stuff runs you, do you just get bored and want to move on?

you may owe me a new shirt if I can't get the coffee stains out after reading the above. So, which hockey team will be your new local team?

Methinks so....and when you NEVER get rid of stuff along the way....

Who wants my Carrera ;)?

I'd never turn down the opportunity but methinks it'd be a bit out of my price range. Or I'd have to dump some cars and parts...

I'm not retired but have a timeline in place. Have been saving and storing for too long. I'm not a packrat or hoarder but don't want to make the heirs deal with too much. I recently developed a plan to reduce the stuff without going with the nuclear option. Each weekend, I look for something to throw out or give away (Goodwill and Habitat have seen a lot of me). Sometimes its just one or two things, sometimes more. Bit by bit I'm thinning things out.

Ha, same here. I had a ton of fun in mine, something else I wish I'd hung onto. I was looking at Sprites this morning, a Carrera would be a nice upgrade.

That's the way to do it. Start with the low hanging fruit. The stuff that doesn't take any decision making to give away or throw out. It gets easier the more you do it.

I hereby proclaim 2019 to be: PPOT "The year of the Purge"...

Get yer low hangin' Carreras here ;)

Dawgs don't count...I think I'm gonna get a new poopy in 9 weeks :)