Everyone Working on Getting Rid of Lifetime of STUFF

I've been selling some no longer needed things on EBAY for the past couple of years, and using the PAYPAL money to get a few items I use on a regular basis. We've also cleaned out a fair amount of stuff that's still in good shape, and taken it to either Goodwill or the local animal shelter.
 

hollydolly said:
How do you feel about moving into an apartment instead of a house ?... is it significantly smaller than what you have now, RT?
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I have friends who live in houses and those who live in apts and we apt dwellers love love love to call the landlord for maintenance issues. One good friend is forever tied up in doing something that is wrong in her house, she was given a smaller house from ex husband in divorce so has no monthly payments but it's always something tying her down with the house. One friend would love to move to an apt but when she thinks about all she has to get rid of she just closes her mind on anything and goes on as she is.
 
Don M. said:
I've been selling some no longer needed things on EBAY for the past couple of years, and using the PAYPAL money to get a few items I use on a regular basis. We've also cleaned out a fair amount of stuff that's still in good shape, and taken it to either Goodwill or the local animal shelter.
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What's the saying: Our junk is another's treasure. I used to find some neat things at Goodwill when I still was shopping, I shop no more....just good food and what I truly NEED.

Just thinking at one point maybe in my 60's I was forever picking up great t-shirts at goodwill for like a $1 or so and it got to a point where I had 50 some shirts, I worked for sometime getting rid of those and many went back to goodwill. geeeezzz we humans.
 

We send all our unwanted stuff, which is in good condition, to the charity shops, if none of our children want it.
 
sarnialass said:
We send all our unwanted stuff, which is in good condition, to the charity shops, if none of our children want it.
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I had a dear friend who came into this world very poor and going to thrift shops was a HIGH in her life...she would buy junk I would never and had stuff all over her apt....chatskies... she appreciated EVERYTHING.
 
Stuff is necessary. Finding a place to put it and remembering what stuff went where is a challenge. Not hoarders just like to have stuff to use for different stuff. This time of year corn on the cob is popular. But sometimes stripping the corn off the cob works for making a different meal. Sooooooo the gadget to strip corn off the cob is a much needed stuff thingy.


Not worrying about our kids dealing with getting rid of what they don't want. That is what estate sales are for. Meanwhile enjoying everything we have when we can find it to enjoy works for us. Another way of looking at it is searching stimulates the mind, even trying to remember what we search for stimulates the mind.
 
jaminhealth said:
I have friends who live in houses and those who live in apts and we apt dwellers love love love to call the landlord for maintenance issues. One good friend is forever tied up in doing something that is wrong in her house, she was given a smaller house from ex husband in divorce so has no monthly payments but it's always something tying her down with the house. One friend would love to move to an apt but when she thinks about all she has to get rid of she just closes her mind on anything and goes on as she is.
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Surely people own their apartments too...don't they have to do they're own maintenance ?...I have no idea how it works in the USA..

here if you rent a property then the landlord is responsible, but if you own your property then it's down to you as the owner!!
 
Knight said:
Stuff is necessary. Finding a place to put it and remembering what stuff went where is a challenge. Not hoarders just like to have stuff to use for different stuff. This time of year corn on the cob is popular. But sometimes stripping the corn off the cob works for making a different meal. Sooooooo the gadget to strip corn off the cob is a much needed stuff thingy.


Not worrying about our kids dealing with getting rid of what they don't want. That is what estate sales are for. Meanwhile enjoying everything we have when we can find it to enjoy works for us. Another way of looking at it is searching stimulates the mind, even trying to remember what we search for stimulates the mind.
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Well, that's another take on justifying all our Stuff. I've got drawers of stuff that I never touch....guess I better keep it all.

I buy into the Law of Circulation.

http://www.mindreality.com/law-of-circulation-flow-of-giving-and-receiving
 
hollydolly said:
Surely people own their apartments too...don't they have to do they're own maintenance ?...I have no idea how it works in the USA..

here if you rent a property then the landlord is responsible, but if you own your property then it's down to you as the owner!!
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Here in So. Calif people don't buy apts...I understand that goes on in NYC but here people buy condos and townhouses and then are responsible for all their inside maintenance. But where I am, and I try to fix things if I can, call the landlard and he's pretty fast with help.
 
jaminhealth said:
I hear you about the daughter and I call it waste as she was born with plenty, I was born at home after the great depression, so very very opposite beginnings, and then there's my grandkids, oh brother, they have no clue about scrimping, their dad did so well in Calif. real estate and they are his heirs, so again a totally different mindset and up bringing.

When my mom was still alive and I bought her birthday gifts I would buy her something that I would like as I knew it would be mine when she's gone. She enjoyed things and I have nice memories. But I can let go pretty good.
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Sorry my fault really for not explaining better...

My daughter wasn't born into money..and after her father and I divorced when she was just 6 years old.. I worked 7 part-time jobs around her school hours to pay bills and to ensure she never went without , as I had as a child... !!

I instilled into her the importance of a good education, and I worked hard to ensure she had that and was able to make a good start with her life in the job market..which she did... she was a top grade student at school and college, and when she started work she began on the middle rung of the ladder with a well know corporate company ...and worked her way up very quickly , and worked extremely long hours for everything she has , and ultimately was able to start her own very successful business. She's extremely savvy and can turn a dollar on a spin to double or triple..

I just don't understand tho' why she doesn't cherish everything she has , having watched me struggle to make ends meet...

It's a pity that she has that side of her, but I can't change her , and I don't try to... just saddened by it...
 
Your daughter is who she is and as is mine and my grandkids. I wish them well and GOOD HEALTH first and foremost and I don't lament they are not more like me, they are not. We can't change them and we both know that.

I have a lot of my mother's habits and my daughter has hardly any of my "saving" habits.
 
It is sobering to look at items you onced prized and realize you won't need them anymore.....:yoda:......This calls for a drink...:drinking:..I am having trouble dealing with subject..another drink...:drinking:.....my internet doctor told me I need to search for inner peace in my life...I thought about it and ted I need another dink...:drinking:..... looked around and found a bodtle of wine..hic up...and den the ole half bodle of pane scription..another dink..:drinking:.... you has no ideer how vonderful I feel rite now. Tell al ur frenz who need to deeal wit innard piss ...anoter dink...:drinking:.... jusst tel um u luv um....:yoda:
 
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