Anyone else "overwhelmed" with STUFF!!????

[Rule3]

Living in Florida, most homes are not as big as many Northern homes. There are no basements or big attics.
We have lived in the same house for many, many years.

The accumulation of stuff I guess is inevitable, but being into firearms and reloading it is becoming to much!! Ammo, magazines, slings, holsters is just the start. Being a reloader adds tons of more stuff. Powder, primers, bullets, brass etc etc.(all the guns were lost in the great sink hole)

They say that your "stuff" is proportional to the amount of space you have, then it becomes a TV show like HOARDERS!!

Got a yard shed to get all the lawn and garden stuff out of a two car garage, Got to park one car for maybe a month.

The shed is full and so is the garage again!!

I hate clutter, I must organize, eliminate, exterminate!

Intervention is needed!!

 

[Qball]

No need for intervention, get a few shipping containers instead...

 

[Salty RI]

I had a garage once, twice a year I would go to the dump to empty it out, finally I tore it down and built a shed just big enough to hold the yard tool's, once you put something in the basement or garage it's there for good, may as well give it away or throw it away, it will never be used again.

 

[Maddog 521]

I sold all of my accumulated stuff about 3 years ago. I have not been to an auction, garage sale or estate since then. I feel good about it. BTW I've been looking for a pocket knife for a month now without any success. I've asked all of my kids and grand kids and they haven't seen it either.

 

[PatriotX]

eBay is your friend.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have a small place which has not enough room for my stuff. Trouble is, its mostly collectables, so ain't donating or tossing that stuff. However, I'm willing to sell off a WWII German officers tunic, cap and another officers cap. Any takers?

 

[loknload]

The wife and I are downsizing and we are getting rid of "Stuff" but it's a slow process!
Trying to get both our married kids back to get their "Stuff" that's another miracle to behold!
But one day this house will be clutter free!

 

[Rule3]

The wife and I are downsizing and we are getting rid of "Stuff" but it's a slow process!
Trying to get both our married kids back to get their "Stuff" that's another miracle to behold!
But one day this house will be clutter free!


Multiple LIKES!!!!

Just to funny. He was so great! LMAO! We used to listen to George on those long playing Vinyl Record things as well as several other comics back then!!

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Bekeart]

Stuff expands to fill all available space.

Bekeart
Unrepentant Hoarder

 

[Frank237]

But....As soon as you get rid of something...a week later You need it.

 

[rwsmith]

Not overwhelmed any more.....

We were so overwhelmed that we couldn't move around here. Last year we had a fire and everything was boxed and removed from our house. I swore that for every box I kept, I'd throw two away. And I did, completely heartlessly. I wanted to keep some of it, but our sanity is worth more.

 

[JJEH]

Send me all your firearms related stuff you can't find a place for, I'll take care of it

 

[Salty RI]

But....As soon as you get rid of something...a week later You need it.

Ain't that the truth, we bought a welder at work and used it for a job and it was never used again, they were going to throw it away, I took it home and it sat there for years, a friend came over and he said to me, I would like to get a welder, I took him down cellar and said will this do, he said yeah how much do you want for it, I said nothing take it, it wasn't a week when I could have used it, he lived over an hour away and I wasn't going to bother him, I ended up paying someone to weld it.

 

[bigolddave]

The problem here is not stuff; that's MY stuff. The problem is my wife's junk! Over three thousand cook books (at least it's down from over four thousand). Jigsaw puzzles by the hundreds, novels by the hundreds, pots and pans, on and on it goes. If I didn't show some restraint, and keep it down to a few thousand books and a few hundred boxes of ammo, we wouldn't be able to walk anywhere in the house!

 

[islamoradamark]

container or shed

No need for intervention, get a few shipping containers instead...

down here in the southern part of Florida you have to get a permit from the building dept then it has to be strapped down, in case of a high wind

 

[LVSteve]

My stuff is bad enough, but certain members of the extended family, to which I don't really belong anymore, think that I should be the repository/museum for the stuff belonging to several departed members of said family. I am moving soon, and when I tell them my plans for the stuff, the wailing and gnashing of teeth will be biblical. I'm giving them plenty of warning to make space or get a storage, so they can't really complain.

 

[rburg]

, and keep it down to a few thousand books and a few hundred boxes of ammo, we wouldn't be able to walk anywhere in the house!

Um...If you don't need that ammo, don't toss it out. Some of us here could provide a storage place for it. And that's even with a shortage of space ourselves!

 

[LostintheOzone]

The size of your house is directly proportional to the amount of stuff you have.

We have a small house. When my wife says honey we need a something or other the first words out of my mouth are, where are you going to put it?

That usually ends the conversation.

 

[wbraswell]

Rule3, believe me, I know it all too well. Have you ever started to clean an area or room and end up with a bigger mess than you started with?

 

[ladder13]

Got any 35 Rem you wanna rid yourself of?