One of my retirement projects involves getting rid of a lot of stuff.
When you spend a career in the military, you tend to accumulate a lot of stuff. And one of the results of the accumulation of a lot of stuff is the necessity to store all that stuff ... often in an expensive rented storage space*. As we economize, getting rid of that storage space becomes important ... but forces us to decide what to do with all the stuff that's now sitting there.
Here's a brief sample of what we're storing: a day bed and mattress; two saddles (one English, one Western) and a homemade stand; hundreds of empty boxes for our fragile collectables; an ugly old chandelier; a large dog cage; a kitchen warming drawer; Christmas decorations, power tools for working with stained glass; and an electric snow blower.
Today, I'll be starting to move the empty boxes into the small crawlspace under our front stairs. We're looking at installing pull-down stairs to the attic and laying a cheap plywood floor so that we can put some of that stuff up there, and I'm planning both a major yard sale and a trip to the county landfill.
Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
* You can read about my problems with that rented space in this post from August, 2015.
Wow! Sounds like a real job. did you really retire, or just change jobs? I hope you get no discarders' remorse. I never did, if that helps.
ReplyDeleteIf I throw something away, two days later I find out out that I needed it. That just needs to happen once to forever really slow down discard plans.
ReplyDeleteGee Bill retirement is sounding like such fun.
ReplyDeleteI thought moving was caused people to discard stuff. Sounds like a lot of work.
ReplyDeleteCasting out old stuff is hard. The memories creep in.
ReplyDeleteStuff will certainly accumulate to fill available space. It's amazing how much collects over the years.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with it.