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

[Krell1]

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!

IN YOUR DREAMS! I've said the same thing for years. I have a two car garage with a car on one side. The other side is a whole different story. I'm a reloader, I do woodworking, I do stained glass. I have no room on the one side of the garage for all my STUFF! If I decide to work in the garage I have to move the car so I can put my tools out so I can use them.

I have STUFF that's been untouched for years that I should sell or toss out. That never happens. It's a good thing I don't have a basement or shed or they would probably be full of good, valuable junk as well.

Good luck on your quest, you need it!

 

[Smoke]

I really try not to accumulate stuff anymore. The first 15 years I was married my wife and I accumulated a bunch of junk that we just had to have and we ended up having to get rid of when we moved from. 3500 sq foot house to a 720 sq foot apartment.

I even sold off over half of my "collection" of guns over the last few years.

The one habit I can't seem to break is buying books. I found out I could buy the same Landmark books I checked out of the school library on EBay and I've been going through and picking up my favorites.

 

[chaparrito]

Books are a real problem. I love books, it will be hard to get rid of them.

 

[Frank46]

One of my future sons in law and I spent a whole saturday cleaning out the garage. Everything nice,neat and tidy. The one day opened the garage door and about 30 rubbermaid containers were staring me back in the face. I asked the wife what the heck happened in the garage?. I needed the room. Backed the truck to the garage door and started loading the containers then drove around to the car port and started loading all of them in the sun room. When done no more rubbermaid containers in the garage. Hasn't been any in there for the last few years. And to top it off she pays storage charges where there are a whole lot more. Hate to tell you about the rubber maid containers she has. Bags of clothes she will probably never wear. Me I keep it simple jeans and t shirts in the summer and jeans and t shirts in the winter. Frank

 

[SweetMK]

About 10 years ago, my wife decided we needed hardwood floors,,,
The wood we chose came unfinished,,, and I knew NOTHING about floor installation.

It turned out that if the wood needs sanded and finished,,,
EVERYTHING in the house must be removed,,, silverware out of the drawers, paintings and pics off the walls.

Well,, that was the best thing that EVER happened to us!!

When we put our stuff back, we only kept 1/3,,,
the rest was given away, hauled to the dump, or given to the kids,,,

10,000 rounds of 35 REM are in the landfill,,,
(JUST KIDDING about the 35 REM!!)

 

[Pointblank2U]

Many of us have big boxes, (or duffel bags), full of holsters we bought that never worked out. It's almost impossible to sell them too. Then there's the firearms boxes, they say they make guns more valuable if you decide to sell them so we are stuck with them.. then there's the grips.. and so on and so on..

 

[Neely52]

I am going on 65, decided to get rid of all the stuff filling my shop that I will never use again, big tools, saws, drills, heavy duty things. I donated it all to a charity.
I farm out my yard work, so got ride of all the yard tools.

Now I have an organized shop for just my " gun stuff " .

 

[snuffy51]

I just quit worrying about the stuff. Take a load to the dump when I get bored.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Some of the clutter is gone... all the music CDs and DVD movies have been replaced with a hard drive. No more phones, wires and cords in every room of the house... just one in the pocket. The shop got a major cleaning out when Bell was building a home on my street. Those dumpsters are convenient. That lead to moving everything else from our two car garage to the shop, leaving nothing but two cars, my bike, generator and tool chest. Pretty happy about that.

The thing that keeps growing and growing in my gun parts closet. I have so much stuff that I'll never use but... well ya know...

 

[GatorFarmer]

I think that I will need all those bottles of urine one day, and possibly the jars of toenail clippings as well.

 

[forestswin]

Oh no, I have all my slotted screws organized by type,size, and length. Of course when I filled up my one car garage, the rental storage unit, and a couple of yard sheds, I built this in the back yard.

It looks like new building is just waiting for "stuff"

 

[wunderboy]

If you throw it away,you will need it next week. If you buy one ,you will find yours next week. Stuffs law!

 

[Drm50]

Me and buddy of mine have this down to a science. I clean up
my "stuff" make a pile out of what I decide I don't need. Haul
this stuff down to his house. He does the same thing and hauls
it to my house. We each file the stuff away, the wives are happy
and the stuff is safe. Next spring we will do it again, this saves
the stuff and looks like we did something. While cleaning up
this spring I came across a deck of cards, from Remington. I
opened them up and threw away the jokers and the rules for
poker. Felt very good about myself, but don't use jokers or the
rules anyway.

 

[perryhd]

I have a 24 X 24 out building that is so full I can hardly get in it. There is stuff from my parents house my wife's patents house. Stuff that belongs to my two girls who both moved out over twenty years ago, and our stuff. I actually brought in a box the other that my wife wanted that had her mother's china in it. The china was wrapped in news paper from 1988 so it had be there a while. BTW I took two boxes out there to replace the one I brought in. Never win.

 

[Cyrano]

Being in the Army solved that problem. We moved every three years or so, and having to pack up everything, made us throw a way a lot. I've been in this house since 1982,and it's bulging at the seams. I'd hate to be the person that has to clear it out.

 

[Bajadoc]

Get the book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" by Marie Kondo. It changed the way I look at "stuff."

 

[DaGOOSExyz]

Sometimes I'd like to have one of those tiny houses they show on TV and no more stuff than what can fit into it.