...quiet hoarders...
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I call it pre-hoarding syndrome. IMO, we don’t have to worry until it includes old grocery lists, out-of-date-shoppers and used packaging.
An enlightening experience was all the duplicates, like brand new paint brushes in the original packaging, the electrical outlets (all plural), et al because we couldn’t find the perfectly functional ones we already had in all the junk.
Just cashed in a couple of batteries. Countdown to virtual rummage sale on eBay...which I just realized will be the week smokey designated for martial law. The net may go dark. I better get a couple of analogue books.
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Wait, what? What's that all about?
We are in the midst of a clean out here. We had our house treated for termites last year. About 5 years ago we started to see a brown recluse spider occasionally - might go a year without seeing another one. I would treat the attic and not see one for a long time - but about 2 months ago we saw a bunch of them. Don’t know if it had anything to do with the termite treatment making them move up from somewhere in the crawlspace but if you have ever been through one of those sagas it will make you want to just burn it all down. Every closet every cabinet has to be empty and furniture pulled out from the wall. So I’m trying to get rid of half of the stuff I’ve been hanging onto because great aunt so and so slept under it at one time. I’m not going to babysit “STUFF” anymore because some relative gave it to me. If everything is “special” then nothing is.
Facebook for sale groups are the way to go, then Craigslist before EBay. FB is very immediate, while Craigslist is slower but still local and EBay is nationwide. I would only go there first if I was selling something very shippable and special of high value
We sold everything, well at least most everything, and moved south a few years ago. Very liberating but offloading things takes a lot of effort.