Originally Posted By Kira wow! I've never heard of that group before. That is a really neat idea! Do they do the resell's through a website or at auctions?
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs All this talk about boxes...lol... I still have the boxes for my PlayStation 2, Sega Genesis and original NES. They're on my closet shelf with all of my other board games. I still have greeting cards from past holidays and birthdays...and school work from preschool to college... I may be worse than you LuLu *summons the Fantasia brooms to start cleaning*
Originally Posted By LadyKluck I was thinking LuLu before I read your post about the ladies taking the stuff that belonged to your MIL, why not donate them to a local high school drama club or a theater or something to use as costumes? I used to always give my Hallloween costumes to a friend who passed them along to her DD's school for their drama dept.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck 5BR, I am horrible about keeping greeting cards. Especially Disney ones because I keep thinking I'll use the fronts of them for scrapbooking someday! I am also a postcard junkie! Ask TiggerPooh1973!! LoL! She helps feed my addiction!
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer I still kept the flat pack boxes for my: NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, GB, GBA, DS, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Genesis, Dreamcast, Nomad, Xbox, 360, LD, CD, Receiver Multiple), Speakers (Multiple), Computer Speakers (Multiple), Cassette Deck, Mini Stereo, Boombox, LP Deck, Televisions (Multiple), VCR's (Multiple), DVDs(Multiple),Laptops (Multiple), Desktops (Multiple), Printers (Multiple), Networking stuff (Multiple), Peripherals (Multiple)... I'll join 3BR's club
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer When a single person has 2445+1200 sq ft, the pack rack tendency may settle in
Originally Posted By murfsmom LuLu- do you have anything that could be donated to a yard sale ? my granddaughters dance school is having their yearly yard sale on mar 21st. if you do and you can fit it in your car we could get it from you at Walt's barn, (i think you said you were going) just an idea !!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs My Collection of Evil" has quite a few action figures and Happy Meal figures in it. Well, um, I also kept the little Happy Meal sheets that told you how the toy works...I also kept the "nametags" and some of the cardboard packages that the figures came in...I kept all of my Disney Park receipts...
Originally Posted By LuLu The Colleagues have a store in Santa Monica - I didn't know that befor I looked them up They're the best place for the pricey stuff, I know most people won't appreciate it. As for our high school drama dept. - I've tried to get DD to take them some stuff but she said their closets were bulging!! And pretty much all my yard-sale-worthy stuff has been donated to the Rescue Mission over the past several years. Now it's down to leftover bits of house and yard projects and dumb stuff like that... murfsmom would they want a garment rack? If I can fit it in my car... it might come in handy for them to display donated clothes... or they can just sell it!
Originally Posted By murfsmom sure bring it, does it come apart ? i have to make sure we can put it in our car, were driving the 60 chevy,it does have a larger trunk !!
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 LuLu, I admire you! For the past year I have been trying to clean out the walk in closet in our bedroom. DH even cleaned out his stuff so it's all my junk. You have motivated me to make today the day If your tenant wants to park in the garage you could always get an outdoor "shed" at Home Depot for the lawn mower etc. You'd still have room for storing stuff in the garage I guess that doesn't really help though does it?
Originally Posted By LuLu I don't care where my tenants *want* to park, I'm more concerned about the growing number of cars at my house annoying my neighbors I've gone from renting my "mother-in-law" to a single person with one car parked in my driveway (last tenant didn't even have a car!) to a couple with 2 cars, AND I'm renting another room too. So that's 2 cars parked on the street. Not terrible, but definitely more "cluttered" I've cleaned out so much stuff over the past few years, it's amazing I can't remember if I posted that I recently moved my office from a large bedroom with a walk-in closet, to my dining room. Definitely worth the cash flow from renting that room, but I lost a lot of storage. I won't be doing the outside shed anytime soon. I just built the wardrobe and knew it would be virtually impossible to move once built. The carton of parts weighed 195 pounds We just took the parts out of the car when we got home from HD, didn't even try to move the box with 2 people.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I totally get the not wanting to put together a shed! Just the idea of it makes me shudder. A friend just bought one from Costco and moved all their ebay stuff into it so I had it on my mind So you have 3 paying tenants now? Thats great! How is your dog handling it?
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Just give up on the notion of value. As you know LuLu I've been going through this cleansing of stuff also over the past 1.5 years due to my relocation to Atlanta. I just gave up on worrying about how much something cost me 5 years ago and now I want to throw it away. Trust me the weight off your shoulders of being held hostage by all this stuff is WORTH the price to toss it. Yes, recycle, give away, sell to 2nd hand stores as much as you can but then calculate the time and $ you have spend shuffling it around, sitting around contemplating it, stressing about it... Trust me, it "ain't" worth it.
Originally Posted By beamerdog <<<spent this week reading Lisann22's books :-D I'm on a streak getting things out of here. I'd love to rent out - my son does it and the income is great. I'd like to rent out to some old lady like me.
Originally Posted By LuLu I have 2 tenants in my larger rental and 1 in the "studio" (one room and a small bath). The quality of applicants this time was SO different than in the past. I couldn't get a "single" applicant that had enough income to rent the apartment. In fact, I had very few applicants at all, even after I lowered my rent by 10%. It's a whole different world out there Most of the stuff I have left at this point I want to keep, it's just a matter of getting it organized so I'm not always moving things from here to there, to get at what I want! But the garage is looking *really* good!
Originally Posted By LuLu And yes, it feels great to get rid of stuff! So if I can motivate others...
Originally Posted By LuLu BTW my "couple" tenants moved in this weekend and I think they have more stuff than me - in 40% of the space, and NO garage! *shudder* I was talking to the husband's dad, and dad and mom go around to swap meets and flea markets, collecting old "stuff." Like father, like son!! The good news is, I don't think this couple will want to move any time soon
