Sometimes I Think I'm A Hoarder!

LynnandCarol wrote:

rjxj wrote:
One of my wife's coworkers husband died and my wife said that the woman had a garage sale. She said her husband had 16 hammers!!! I didn't say anything but I went out to count.

Ha ha ha Just read this post to my husband and he kinda looked at the ceiling and then fessed up he has five with us. What!!!!! Three have to go. LOL

LOL Unless you are using new math, FOUR of them have to go. :)

The easiest way to finally get rid of stuff?
If you are still packing up the S&B, put everything you want to keep in boxes. Every morning, move all the boxes from one room to another. Doesn't matter which rooms, just pick them up and move them. After a week, the amount of stuff you move will get smaller and smaller as you get tired of moving those d$%n boxes.
After eight months of fulltiming, we changed rigs. We were surprised at the stuff we still had and, since we didn't want to move all that crap, we dumped some more (we had two hammers).
It is amazing the amount of stuff one can find unnecessary when one is required to carry it.

rjxj wrote:
One of my wife's coworkers husband died and my wife said that the woman had a garage sale. She said her husband had 16 hammers!!! I didn't say anything but I went out to count.

Ha ha ha Just read this post to my husband and he kinda looked at the ceiling and then fessed up he has five with us. What!!!!! Three have to go. LOL

One of my wife's coworkers husband died and my wife said that the woman had a garage sale. She said her husband had 16 hammers!!! I didn't say anything but I went out to count.

Goodwill accepts used linens and towels. Lots of people out there with the need for these items at a good price.

You could also gift them on Craigslist. Lots of needy people.

When we started fulltiming 13+ years ago, we had sold the house and virtually everything in it, given away most of the rest and headed on down the road in a 33' fiver (5'longer than we'd needed because of what we thought our 3 (now 1) cats might need). They couldn't have cared less.

We didn't put anything in storage nor did we keep a "home base". Everything we thought we'd need, we had with us. A year later we took inventory and found that about 30% of what we had with us we hadn't seen or touched in that year. Out it went. To this day we still subscribe to the notion that if we haven't seen or used it in the last year it is gone. We also hold firm that if something comes in, something else has to go out.

Those notions have enabled us to downsize to a much lighter and shorter (29') fiver which enables us to get into the older SP and NP and older private park sites which we much prefer. It took us 5 years before we reached the point that we hadn't seen or used something that had to go.

Except for a few nuts, bolts and other fasteners there is nothing that we're carrying that we've not utilized in the last year and are still carrying.

You just need two sets of everything. One set in use, and one set in the wash.

Any more than that you will not use. You will just carry and store it.

I just went through this in June. I began shedding items such as furniture, kitchen items, tools, clothes, etc 1 year prior. By the time the house sold I thought I'd whittled it down, via "garage sales", Craig's List and non-profit donations, to a manageable level.

Reality set in when I drove the, new-to-me, Class A home. No way could I get all I set aside into the limited space, so I gave more to non-profit and neighbors/friends.

After 3 months on the road I can truthfully say I don't miss anything I left behind. I can even get rid of a few more things if I so desire.

30 towels? I've got 3 bath towels. Bear in mind I'm single traveling with 2 dogs. I've got a set of 4 dinnerware. A few dish towels, Oven Mitts, Kitchen utensils, etc. Minimal pots, pans and baking items.

Unless you are a True Hoarder, believe me, you'll find you can get by with a lot less than you think.

Good Luck!

Mike

Liferdog wrote:
If you decide that you can do without some of your blankets, sheets and towels, I am sure your local Animal Shelter will be glad to take them off of your hands.

Absolutely. I do that anyway, along with food and other requested items. Actually, there are 2 shelters that are in our will, if there is anything left!

If you decide that you can do without some of your blankets, sheets and towels, I am sure your local Animal Shelter will be glad to take them off of your hands.