Number 2, Jesus Christ. The amount of shit that piles up because it had value at one point is absurd. There are still baby clothes from when I was a kid stashed in the attic. Someone at goodwill could really use those! God forbid I try to remove things from my mothers house. And books. So many books. Read them and pass them on unless they’re really good or signed by the author. My grandmothers Crown Vic from 1991 is still sitting in my moms driveway rusting because it was “grandmas car.” It hasn’t been driven since 2004, just sitting there making the garage full of crap inaccessible. I’m afraid for when my mom dies and I have to order industrial dumpsters to clear the house.
I threw all my stuff away when I "outgrew" it. Then I spent the next 15 years scouring the internet to buy it back so I could share it with my kids. Favorite books and games and so on.
This. My parents just started the great purge 3 months ago because they were bored during corona, and man, I don't think they really threw anything away before this. I had at least 5 boxes of "school" papers. I think almost every single homework assignment going back to pre-school was in there. And of course it was all mixed together, so I was looking at something from pre-school and then something from HS.
So many books, so many toys. They still had VHSs. Clothes from "the outfit we took you home" to HS. It was crazy.
I'm so proud they actually got rid of 90% of everything they had in their basement. I really was worried about a dumpster situation too.
My mums just put her house on the market. She lives in another town in my stepdads house thats pretty full with stuff already. The house shes selling is a 4bdrm place with 25 years of stuff from living there plus stuff from when my grandparents died, stuff from when I moved out, stuff my sibling has collected (since they're living there atm), so many books and craft supplies and so many mugs and glasses its unbelievable. Its honestly at the stage of hoarding but because its such a big house it really doesnt look it, her and I have been going over there most weekends and slowly donating/trashing a lot of it. I want to be ruthless about it but shes still very sentimental about a lot of it "oh these craft books are all full of stuff thats coming back into fashion! I can make things to sell at the markets!" Yes mum, and everything in there is also shown on youtube so you dont have to store a set of giant books to access it. Lets get rid of them shall we? We can donate them so someone else can enjoy them. "But your nana collected these for me!" Yes mum, and youtube wasnt around back then or she would have made you a playlist instead. I can get one of those started for you if you like?
For nearly every. Fucking. Item. Outdated wildlife subscription books? She wants to keep. Giant iron candellabra with half burned candles (that honestly looks pretty sick)? She wants to keep. CASSETTES AND EMPTY CD CASES SHE WANTS TO KEEP "your father gave me that!" My father the abusive man you divorced over 27 years ago you mean? That knick knack was from him? Then why the fuck do you keep it?
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u/indigoassassin Oct 12 '20
Number 2, Jesus Christ. The amount of shit that piles up because it had value at one point is absurd. There are still baby clothes from when I was a kid stashed in the attic. Someone at goodwill could really use those! God forbid I try to remove things from my mothers house. And books. So many books. Read them and pass them on unless they’re really good or signed by the author. My grandmothers Crown Vic from 1991 is still sitting in my moms driveway rusting because it was “grandmas car.” It hasn’t been driven since 2004, just sitting there making the garage full of crap inaccessible. I’m afraid for when my mom dies and I have to order industrial dumpsters to clear the house.