Went to an Estate Sale today and I want you to tell me...

Honkridge

Honkridge

UNACCEPTABLE!
how can a person collect so much JUNK in their life. Two large sheds of Christmas ornaments. Three complete sets of silverware as well as a bajillion free ranging forks knives spoons ladles and shit. FIVE VUCKING CROCKPOTS. THREE TOASTER OVENS. FOUR ELELCTRIC BLANKETS. Don't get me started on the ceramic figurines and crystal vases.

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Honkridge said:
how can a person collect so much JUNK in their life. Two large sheds of Christmas ornaments. Three complete sets of silverware as well as a bajillion free ranging forks knives spoons ladles and shit. FIVE VUCKING CROCKPOTS. THREE TOASTER OVENS. FOUR ELELCTRIC BLANKETS. Don't get me started on the ceramic figurines and crystal vases.

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LOL

We have been amazed at all the stuff we accumulated in 20 years in a house, that we are now having to work hard to remove and find places for. (Sometimes the new place is the trash bin).

But we still only have one each of crockpots and toaster ovens. :grin:
 
Honkridge said:
how can a person collect so much JUNK in their life. Two large sheds of Christmas ornaments. Three complete sets of silverware as well as a bajillion free ranging forks knives spoons ladles and shit. FIVE VUCKING CROCKPOTS. THREE TOASTER OVENS. FOUR ELELCTRIC BLANKETS. Don't get me started on the ceramic figurines and crystal vases.

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people are pack rats. I purged a lot of stuff starting 8 years ago and I was never a super pack rat. At first it's hard but then easy peasy, ya just gotta be ruthless. Some stuff is easy to get rid of and other stuff you need to kinda stick it into the "not quite yet but maybe next time" area and then just every so often get rid of SHIT.
I had to do it with my brothers stuff when he passed away and I kept certain things but other stuff I just had to toss.
I dread the time when i will have to do it when my dad passes but I plan to just get one of those roll away dumpsters and go to it. There's certin things I know I won't be able to part with like things that were sentimental to him (same fgoes for my mom's stuff) but you just gotta toss things. Less is more.
My current boss is a packrat to the point the shop is almost like Sanford and Son's place...so I see how it works first hand....some people just cant part with anything, even broken shit.
I try to be a min imalist as much as practical. i hate clutter.

Anyway if it's broken then throw the shit away, if there's not some strongsentimental value...same....you haven't worn something in a year, donate it....
otherwise yer gonna be parking yer car on the street cuz there's no more room in the garage and you'll be on the show hoarders.

Hope this helps !
 
We are going through that with Carol's mother's house. People took what they wanted and there is a bunch of crap left over. My one soft-hearted Sister-in-law is lamenting how sad that the children don't wnat the honor the MIL's legacy, but I don't see her filling her house with the crap either...
 
My parents were hoarders. Mom died 2 1/2 years ago. We are STILL getting rid of her crap. The only thing I hoard are guitars. They have resale value. 90% of my parent's "treasures" ended up in the trash or at the thrift store.
 
There aren't too many of them left at this point, but I think it's particularly prevalent among people who lived through/grew up during the depression (like my grandparents). Gotta hang on to stuff just in case there might be some use for it eventually
 
When I cleaned out Mom and Dads homestead of 60 years I kept a box of pictures, 2-3 choice pieces of furniture, her recipes, a big set of Corningware dishes, and a rolling cabinet of Dads tools. All stuff I could actually use. The rest was donated or went in the rented dumpster.
I try to do a get rid of exercise at least once a year for my own "stuff". For clothes, I follow the "have I worn it in a year rule". The Mrs is now an Ex Mrs and mostly move out so that's helped a lot. My next big clearance is gonna music gear. Excess collected pedals, amps, and instruments I never play.
 
We had a "hoarder house" burn down in our neighborhood Friday night.



I can't find the press release right now but they mentioned how "hoarder conditions" made it difficult to fight the fire in the house.
 
As some of you know, my mother passed last October. She was a woman of considerable means and something of a hoarder. The process to parse through her belongings, hold an estate sale and get the house to market will take me and my brother another year at least.

It was exhausting and frustrating while she was alive and it’s even more so now.

Do your kids/family a solid and don’t become a prisoner of your possessions.
 
Pine Apple Slim said:
When I cleaned out Mom and Dads homestead of 60 years I kept a box of pictures, 2-3 choice pieces of furniture, her recipes, a big set of Corningware dishes, and a rolling cabinet of Dads tools. All stuff I could actually use. The rest was donated or went in the rented dumpster.
I try to do a get rid of exercise at least once a year for my own "stuff". For clothes, I follow the "have I worn it in a year rule". The Mrs is now an Ex Mrs and mostly move out so that's helped a lot. My next big clearance is gonna music gear. Excess collected pedals, amps, and instruments I never play.
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Didn't mean to imply Mrs Pine was a hoarder or anything approaching one. She was no more prone to collecting junk than me or anybody else, less so in a lot of ways.
I just meant that 1 persons stuff is less than 2 persons is is all.
 
Mark Wein said:
I can't find the press release right now but they mentioned how "hoarder conditions" made it difficult to fight the fire in the house.
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We had one of those not far away. The guy had a house full of flammable crap (they always hoard old books, magazines, and newspapers) and a yard full of furniture. All the firefighters could really do was stay back and spray water on the roof and the house burned to the ground.

One of my grandfathers lived through the depression and he had a mindset of not throwing anything away. Fortunately my Grandmother convinced him to keep most of it in the basement and garage. When he died she let my uncle and cousin pick over three huge rolling cabinets of old tools he had amassed, the rest of us picked out a few mementos, and everything else went to the landfill.
 
My parents lived through the first depression and it rubbed off on me to a point. We did keep everything and did eventually have a need for it. ...and, living on a farm, it's also not like the hardware store is 5 minutes away. Thing is, we had a barn and other buildings so the house wasn't an episode of hoarders.
 
Tig said:
Mrs. T is a low level hoarder.
I get in trouble for throwing away shit, but it can't be undone. :bigg:
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This. Mrs JBJ isn't a hoarder but she leaves stuff all over the place. She's not once noticed any of the stuff I've thrown out.
 
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All you need to see is the number of self storage units rented by individuals who already own homes and the storage becomes their overflow.

I have very much embraced minimalism I'm the past few years. The less stuff in my life the better.

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My father in law just posted this to Facebook. I’m pretty sure that the basement of his home in Wisconsin is still full of crap from the kid’s teenage years that survived a flood. And he has hundreds of old movies on VHS in case he can’t find them to stream on Amazon.
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My wife is a bit of a hoarder. Not like in a clinical sense, but she will save things that should be tossed or recycled. If we get a new toaster, the old one should go on a shelf in the garage in case we need it. Even if it is broken, we might use it for parts (although neither of us knows how to repair a toaster). After years of this, things pile up and we have a fairly substantial argument about getting rid of the crap to make room for something. In the end, she reluctantly agrees and we start over. I think she got it from her father, the New England farmer that would never throw anything away. I just went to the refrigerator and she has like half a dozen old butter plastic tubs with leftovers in them. I just emptied a container of cottage cheese and I know she is going to pull the plastic out of the trash, wash it, and use it as poor man's Tupperware. She doesn't want to risk staining the Zwilling vacuum storage stuff we own (and I bought so we wouldn't have all that cheap containers around), so she will use disposable plastic.
 
I’m 100% a hoarder. I hate it. It’s a compulsion. I do cleansings every year or so and get rid of a lot, but never enough. I’m also exceptionally neat and tidy, so you’d never know it…haha.
 
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