More on "Stuff"

[JudyJB]

I just opened a kitchen cabinet for the umteenth time and had a bunch of things fall out--last straw. I then pulled over my stepstool and started pulling out stuff. Why do I still have the wooden salad bowls I got for a wedding gift in 1965 that I only have used maybe 5 times in all these years????? So, out they go.

And the iced tea maker my son bought me 8 years that I never use? (Sorry, Rob) I make tea in my tea pot that is on the stove.

I also had to move my glass coffee table this weekend to open up my hideabed for my grandson to sleep on. I have carpel tunnel syndrome on my right hand and a very bad back, and could barely drag it. Even my son had trouble putting it back after he tore the sheets off the bed and folded it up. And i don't even use that coffee table other than to put trinkets and a "coffee table" book because it is on the far side of the room and no one ever sits there. (I have a strangely shaped living room.) So it is going to Goodwill also, assuming of course I can get it there. I'll get a couple of those cheap storage hassocks/padded things to use as a coffee table or something easier to move.

Why do we punish outselves with all this junk?

[Echo]

I think it's because we are expected to.

Tho who really expects us too is rather murky to tell the truth. Do we think WE should have and keep all the stuff? Or is it the perceived thought we have that other people expect us to have and keep all that stuff.

And really when you stop and really think about it??? Who really do we have to please?? For the most part just ourselves! So why keep it all????

[Bethers]

Amazing, isn't it? And now, even in my 22' long home on wheels, I find myself buying things I really have no need for - have to slap myself sometimes to remind myself that I have no need nor space for "things" like that. I agree wholeheartedly with you about getting rid of the things that could actually hurt you. That table is not good for your wrist or back - out is goes. And just think, you might end up being able to get to the things in the cabinets you really use!

[Nasoosie]

Truer words were never spoken. I, too, am a "stuff" addict. For the past several weekends at the trailer, I have been eliminating more and more stuff and getting better and better organized for the trip home. So far, I haven't missed a single thing I have moved from the trailer to this house, and I actually use the stuff here-----like my orange juice juicer, some knick-knacks I have acquired over the years can actually stay where I put them here, in view to remind me of some fun times, and don't need to get packed up each time I haul on the roads. There is one foldable table in the trailer that I use when the sofa is made into a sofa and not the bed it is now, and I have taken it out of the trailer and put it back in there more than once. Right now it's in the way, as is the folding chair I use at home or on the road when I have internet access to sit in at my computer. Leave those here, or bring them? Time will tell!

Good luck with the oranizing! I am thinking I can also eliminate some of the pots and pans from the trailer next time, as this house has very few of them. In fact, my camping nested set is here, and the good ones are in the trailer-----how screwed up is that?!

[Nasoosie]

Hey, Beth----did you just change the format of this site? I think I like it! Or is it just a glitch in my computer?

Nevermind, on edit, it was just my computer!

[cpatinjones]

I have been getting rid of stuff for the last two years! Less stuff, more freedom!!!

[khenrie]

We got rid of So much stuff this weekend. Unbelievable. We sold alot at our yard sale Saturday. But Sunday morning it still looked like sooo much. Hauled it right off to thrift store and dump. Did not want to bring it back to the house. More still needs to go. It's a start!

[Charlene]

We are finally going to the dump with alot of my DH's junk.

My basement is so full with junk broken computers, monitors, printers etc, that he doesn't want to throw out that you can't walk around.

I finally put my foot down and demanded that it's all going, or I'm going.

Now my junk is a another story

Charlene

[Gentleladybear]

laughing here, when I have a yard sale, last one of the day at the yard sale, gets a bargin, everything left if they will load it and take it away...always a taker.

Nan

[JanetA]

every time I watch hoarders I wanna do a bunch of throwing out! God help me from becoming one of those guys/gals! that is pitiful and i guess it's a mental disorder. I have too much stuff just cuz im sorta on the lazy side,,,but also,, like you all,, think someday I will NEEd this or that. I think tht's the main reason we keep stuff. I'm looking f'ward to the day when I get to have a giant sale of house stuff and get my MH and get on da road! Give me a couple more years, girls,, and I will be one of ya'll!!

Meanwhile,, will try not to become a hoarder,, (they hoard filth as well as stuff,, don't they?)



this was a good topic.

[avalen]

I had such a sense of freedom when I got rid of all my accumulated stuff. Now that I'm down to just bare essentials I use
in the fifthwheel, I'm still thinking of stuff I can get rid of but its like family stuff that will have a home at sons place.
I have 4 crockpots, all different sizes, two of them will get rehomed here at sons and one already went to daughters.
Have some other appliances too that will probably stay at sons house and I'm contemplating that iced tea maker, I love
iced tea but that also requires ice and it would probably get used and wore out at daughters or even sons. Always have
something to run to the goodwill but it feels good to get rid of it.