I have too much stuff. I know you read that and think “pfft, you need to come look at MY house” but seriously…I really do.
Specifically: When I moved back home, we put all of my “stuff” into the storage trailer. Sounds almost normal, right?
The storage trailer is a 14 x 70 singlewide mobile home
For the last 3 years, my stuff has been mouldering in that trailer. I didn’t want to let it go because I’m insane a logical human being. After all, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to replace all that stuff, right? And you all know Murphy’s law
When you throw something out, you’ll find you need it the day AFTER garbage pickup
So now I’m debating….do I go through the trouble of selling the stuff that may or may not be worth anything on ebay, or do I just have a day of skeet shooting?
The clothes are going to Goodwill as soon as I can bag them up.
The books….oh have mercy the books. I have boxes upon boxes of books that MUST be gone through. My antique books are mixed in with the kids library – and the kids library is mostly going BYEBYE. Heartless? HARDLY!
Picture, if you will, the Uhaul small box. Got it? Now picture 8 of them – stacked full of kids books.
How did we acquire so many books when we were dead broke? Two words: Government warehouse. The Palm Beach County warehouse sale had all the books in the building for a penny each.
You read that correctly.
One
Penny
Per
Book
Needless to say, we filled our cart. Grab it off the shelf, we’ll sort it out later. But guess what?
It’s later.
I so have you beat. Imagine those smae boxes, only imagine about ten being kids books and thirty being my books and about fifty being my Mom’s.
We love books.
Well, the 8 boxes was a guesstimate… Until recently, I’ve been afraid to go over there and look. Y’know, that whole “if I don’t see it, I don’t hafta clean it” thing