So hard to let go of "stuff"

[mrisha]

I need to get rid of stuff, but I always think if I got rid of it, I would need it later.

[Tresbn00]

After moving into my current house, about nineteen years ago, I vowed to minimize accumulation of junk. I have a need for three pairs of pants, five dress shirts, seven pairs of socks/underwear/t-shirts, a pair of boots, pair of tevas, pair of running shoes, two pairs of shorts, three t-shirts with print, a baseball cap, two watches, two pair of sunglasses, the cross around my neck, two laptop computers, two large computer monitors, a water proof river bag, sleeping bag and my nineteen sixty five jeep. I have been in the process of relocating my parents into an assisted living facility and tha amount of junk that they have accumulated is beyond amazing-bordering on mentally ill. 15,000 toothpicks? 75 tooth brushes? 1,000 bandaids, 80 bars of soap, 60 baseball caps, credit card statements spanning 30 years...took me five days/18 hours per day to get through 50 percent of their stuff. I won't do that to my children.

[bretay]

it is very easy to accumalate stuff..we moved one time and didnt realize how much extra stuff we had...i got rid of a lot..we moved back to our old hose and i have accumalated more stuff...time to clean out again...lol

[potluck6]

Like to get rid of stuff. Amazed at how much stuff you aquire in a life time. My mom kept alot old christmas cards from thevsixties. I like to through stuff out.  Had some old toys that i donated y3ars ago but nowbwish kept. Who kniws maybe worth something.

[cathy37]

I am in the process of moving and am having to downsize.  It is hard to part with some things, but I have to because I'm going from a three bedroom house to a two bedroom apartment.

[lightningclix]

I have a very hard time letting things go now that I am older.  My husband just takes a quick look at it and throws it in the "to go" pile and moves on like nothing!  I go out there after he cleans and I know that things are missing, but just am never quite sure what!

[plennis]

I have been getting rid of stuff seriously for a couple of years now, I though my parents were going to be coming to my home so I was making room.   Instead my sister and her husband sold their place and moved in with them to be closer to all of the rest of the family.  So I have been helping over there get rid of duplicates.  I think the Veterans of American love us, because we have them pick up every couple of weeks.  We also clear and clean up homes that people are downsizing or going into assisted care facilities, so we have them pick up at those homes too.  But you always feel so good when there is a place for everything to go and it just looks so much cleaner.   

[Kimdud22]

I am the worse. I have so much clothes and random stuff I just need to take a day or 3 and sort through it all.

[pectacon]

I completely understand keeping sentimental things like that. I have relatives whose houses are nothing but an accumulation of sentimentally-kept things though, not only their own but those they've inherited from multiple layers of their deceased relatives, and they keep it because "who else would appreciate it?". I understand and yet I really, really don't want to be in that situation. You have to have your own life too.

[cateyes1]

I donated a huge roll top desk yesterday to hospice resale shop and it kind of made me sad.  Maybe because my husband and I bought it and he is deceased.  I don't know it was a neat desk but so huge it overwhelmed every room it was put in.  Oh well move on and forward. I keep telling myself it's just stuff and you can't take it with you.

I usually take pics of everything like that just to look back at the memory ....I hope you took a pic !!

[beatsdrop]

I get it. My mom passed last year and we're donating a lot of her clothes and some of her stuff. It's very tough.

[cateyes1]

Its been 13 years since my Mom passed and her things are still in her closet. I cant seem to part with them, even though I know thats what she would want ....my Dads things as well. tough isn't the word

[mrsmere]

I take a photo of things for the memories and then donate them.  I volunteer at a soup kitchen with a thrift store and I give them things almost weekly.  My hubby wants to keep EVERYTHING which has added to the clutter.  Hope we never have to move because I don't know how many u haul trucks we would need.

[cateyes1]

I take a photo of things for the memories and then donate them.  I volunteer at a soup kitchen with a thrift store and I give them things almost weekly.  My hubby wants to keep EVERYTHING which has added to the clutter.  Hope we never have to move because I don't know how many u haul trucks we would need.

I took pics too but I still cant seem to let go

[mrisha]

I have given charities bags and bags of clothes.  I didn't exactly want to give them away.  It looked like I was a hoarder-NOT.  My problem is that when I buy something, I never get rid of other stuff I hadn't worn in years.