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He has tubs full of junk he's not been into in three years, has an old video tape (whatever you call it) projector, but no film, lots of garage crap he is emotionally attached to.
My house could burn down and I would not miss any of my junk. It can all be replaced.
He has tubs full of junk he's not been into in three years, has an old video tape (whatever you call it) projector, but no film, lots of garage crap he is emotionally attached to.
My house could burn down and I would not miss any of my junk. It can all be replaced.
There's a point, not about the house burning down but rather...........
...........since in retirement, we are in our last home (hopefully), does stuff tend to gather and collect?
I did inherit my Mother's 1950s food processor/chopper but in the weeks leading up to Operation: WHIRLWIND, that was one of the things, I never used it and there was a need to get rid of it, that went to Goodwill. I am rather convinced, if painfully, that we have so much stuff if we move seldom......and isn't retirement a situation that contributes to such?
If books, CDs and DVDs are in this category that is being discussed here, then 90% of everything I own is WAY out of date (since I have several thousand books, 1.5 thousand CDs, and close to a thousand DVDs. I also have about 300 VHS tapes and about 150 cassette tapes.
When VCRs became difficult to find, I cleared thrift stores of them (at the price of $12 to $15 apiece), so I have 7 VCRs, but 3 of them have deteriorated, maybe from not being used, and now have tone but no picture except snow on the screen. I wonder if anyone still can repair a VCR?
I still have an old black rotary phone (which was already outdated when I bought it in 1984), and I used it until the year 2000. I had a landline (not out in the deep countryside, but in the middle of Boston, MA :-) until 2010.
I have not bought any new clothes, except socks and souvenir T-shirts (of which I have many 100s but hardly ever wear them) since my late 30s (ie, around 1996), but what I wear has nothing to do with yearly fashions, and my weight has never changed much since the age 16, so no problem. Actually, the oldest clothes I still wear are indeed from high school! (I am close to the 64th birthday :-). I still have my prom dress which is entirely usable for formal dinner occasions.
I can’t imagine how you are able to store it all in your smaller condo(s)...
Maybe you could provide advice how the best way to store thousands of books in tiny spaces?
CDs, DVDs, landline, cash, I have a 1948 antique radio that still works -- I love it, many LIMOGE china serving plates from my Mom, lots of pyrex bowls and covered dishes, my grandmother's antique sewing machine and wooden stand, my husband STILL has his college textbooks (ugh -- so stupid), I have my high school and college yearbooks and my cheerleader letter from 9th grade, my Catholic First Communion statue, birthday cards and postcards from long departed relatives (the only ones I save), the handwritten notes people sent me and cards from my mom's funeral, both my parent's obituaries and holy cards, my homemade prom dress from 1970 and several of my mom's 1950's cocktail dresses and purses. Also some Holly Hobbie cake plates from the 1970's as well as a Holly Hobbie embroidered pillow.
AH. But it should have been "unlicensed" rather than "unregistered."
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