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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
Not going to a home, I'm not even 60 yet. Close though.
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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.
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.
Next wave is wall hangings which I have plenty of. Just on the floor in closets.
Nice to come home now.