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Post by pg on Mar 5, 2021 22:52:02 GMT
We moved house recently (well, it was a couple of years now), but in doing so I was forced to go through all the crap I'd spent years hoarding and rationalise it down to merely ten tons of crap... #henpecked Anyway, among the stuff I discovered was old school books, reports, and even the certification of my childhood vaccinations. Well, it was interesting to me, thanks for reading. Have a lovely weekend....  |
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Post by Steve on Mar 5, 2021 23:10:37 GMT
Nothing like a good clear out! Have a great weekend too!
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Post by Lord Fickle on Mar 5, 2021 23:13:44 GMT
I don't envy the person who has to go through my garage when I'm gone! I moved house 15 years ago and there are still boxes of crap in the garage that were never unpacked. Probably some quite collectable vinyl as well, so I really must make the effort to sort it out one day. Well, one week... perhaps two. And it really would be such an effort!
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Post by georg on Mar 11, 2021 13:52:59 GMT
As both my parents have gotten older my sister and I are becoming more and more concerned with sheer amount of absolutely useless shit they both have in their houses. I have helped my dad move house many times, and the amount of stuff he's had in storage units is just astonishing. He had kept the lawnmower from when he and my mom were still married, despite having moved out of the house 20 years prior and having had no lawn to need to mow for the same amount of time! My mom still has clothes my sister and I wore in middle school in her attic, despite the fact that we were both out of school by the time we moved into that house.
My wife's parents have at least been purging their house (they've been threatening to move to a warmer climate for as long as I've known them and so are always getting rid of stuff) but I have been doing what I can to get my parents to get rid of any extraneous stuff so that I don't have to deal with it when they're gone. Happily the pandemic has made my mom realize she doesn't need to live in the house she lives in and is planning on downsizing, while my dad and his girlfriend are moving out of state for her job so they'll probably do more purging.
That being said, my desire to not be like my parents has turned me off being a packrat/hoarder; of course I have discarded a few things I may have wanted to hold on to without realizing it, or just in a moment of housecleaning hubris, but I can't immediately think of anything right now so they must not have been that important!
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Post by Lplix on Mar 11, 2021 17:00:42 GMT
hi everyone,
for me it is fascinating to rummage through my "forgotten" things around (cellars, garages, homes). every time I find things that I no longer remember having (and there are more than 50 years of things). one of these lately has been the 1984 The Works advertising display that record shops flaunted on their shelves. I posted it a few weeks ago, as well as the 1987 Bowie concert poster. I love finding myself strxso in this old world ....
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