moving confronts you with the stuff you have acquired
I remember move out of the parents with a pillow case and a paper bag
6 month later a GF and a mountain of stuff required a truck

later moves grew to multi-truck epics
maybe when I sell this place I will do it furnished
and reduce to a minimum level

I tough one for me was my Fathers clothes. His final years before retirement were big $$ earning and he loved nice clothes. I took 25+ huge plastic bags of really nice stuff, not my size or my son, to the salvation army donation center. Got a good tax write off but honestly it was gross how much money that represented. Maybe Tabs has a few pairs of his shoes...Dad was not into Dragon Jeans.

When you are done with your place Hugh, come on over and help me with mine.

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This is tabs idea of jean therapy....:eek: Disposing of many old dragging azz jeans...

So it sounds like part of your job is hoarding - in hopes that one day - you'll use it! :)

:eek: You're lucky you're not married to MY wife JavaBrewer. You'd have to relive this every six months. I just introduced her to a clothing consignment store in Westlake Village. At least I'll get 5 cents on the dollar back now.

trust me.

there is crap that you will lovingly wrap up, and box away..label it carefully, and put into a moving truck..only to take it carefully out of the moving truck to...NEVER even get around to opening that box. you know what that stuff is. if you're lucky, you packed something you DO need in that same box to even get you to open it.

i was lucky. i packed up and moved into a crap apartment. i had boxed up everything. at the apartment, i just stuffed the boxes into a bedroom walk in closet and never thought of that stuff again. until i got my house and had to move. i opened the boxes, took a quick peek in..and took it to the Goodwill folks. i should have never packed it in the first place.

purge..purge now.

Photographs? Not sure what will happen to mine when I am gone. Our daughter has never met some of my relatives so the photos may no longer have any meaning to her.
As for myself I love looking at old relative pics.

Books? If I have not read a book that I purchased 10-15 years ago for a while and I read it now it is like reading them for the first time.

Clothes? If they don't fit or if I have not worn them for 2 years then I give them to goodwill.

So yes the house is becoming a bit of a time warp.....:eek:

No condo living for this boy.

Actually they will ask for it exactly two weeks to the day after you toss it!

I am by no means a hoarder but I am sort of cluttered, so I am fortunate to have a partner who is fanatically organized and ruthlessly minimalist. I am in the middle of moving and she made it her mission, as I was preparing to move out of my old home, to make sure that I didn't move anything that I didn't need to. Her tendency is sort of a reaction to her parents' maximalist tendencies; eventually, going through their house (and her dad's hangars) is going to be a bit of a nightmare.

Write their names and significance on the back of the picture, approximate dates also. Do it soonish

Well said! Soonish?:eek:

I guess I'm sort of lucky. Our house isn't cluttered. My wife is the type who keeps things simple. I don't have much in the way of clothes. My wife's 8x13, walk in closet is full of her stuff. I only use one shelf and a sparsely populated, three foot hanger section on the bottom half of one corner. My only clutter isn't something I consider excess right now anyway. The tools in my garage are the result of half a century of accumulation, my tractors and yard equipment are things I consider necessities. The only other things are my store of car parts that I'm slowly getting rid of.

My wife and I purged big-time before we moved to Germany. Between a yard sale, donations and giving stuff to friends, I thought we did a good job. It was quite liberating. Yet, we get to Germany, rent a larger than average (for a German family) house and it still feels full. Maybe, I'll purge again, lol.

I want to start a big building project but need to clear out a load of stuff before.

Buying up Porsche parts is much easier than selling them but I just can't bring myself to throw it away

My wife has been into the minimalist thing lately.
She decided my stuff was a good place to start ....