Funny how your dreams are based on your past.

[easyrider]

I managed to get rid of 35 years of business stuff in three months. I managed to get rid of alot of personal things too. My problem is it created room for more items and it seems like as soon as an area gets cleared it begins to fill up.

Some things I don't want are the many things we were stuck with when my inlaws passed, my kids crap from their school days which now includes their wedding dresses, prom dresses and all sorts of things. I keep telling the kids I'm going to sell their crap on ebay and they think I'm joking, lol.

Bill

 

[VacationForever]

I have a $2k custom ordered wedding dress and the whole works that go with it from 20 years ago that I have never used from my "runaway bride" days. I keep hoping that my son will find a girl of my size to marry who would want the dress. Talk about carrying crap with me whenever I move.

 

[WinniWoman]

I have a $2k custom ordered wedding dress and the whole works that go with it from 20 years ago that I have never used from my "runaway bride" days. I keep hoping that my son will find a girl of my size to marry who would want the dress. Talk about carrying crap with me whenever I move.

Lol! That is too funny! I had an incredibly expensive size 5 wedding dress that was unique and one of a kind. But many, many years ago after keeping it for who knows what stupid reason I finally brought it to a thrift shop.
Never got a dime for it either.

Funny, I don’t miss it taking up
space in my closet...

 

[Glynda]

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Some things I don't want are the many things we were stuck with when my inlaws passed, my kids crap from their school days which now includes their wedding dresses, prom dresses and all sorts of things. I keep telling the kids I'm going to sell their crap on ebay and they think I'm joking, lol.

Bill

That we have too. "Memory boxes" in the attic for each of us, including our daughter's. Her prom dresses, mother in law's wedding dress, etc.

My granddaughter did wear one of her mother's prom dresses to a father/daughter dance at her school.

 

[Glynda]

I have a $2k custom ordered wedding dress and the whole works that go with it from 20 years ago that I have never used from my "runaway bride" days. I keep hoping that my son will find a girl of my size to marry who would want the dress. Talk about carrying crap with me whenever I move.

Reading that you were a "runaway bride" made me chuckle. But I'd get rid of that dress. A daughter might want to wear it. A son's fiancé, most likely not. Our daughter would have worn mine. It fit her and she looked good in it. Unfortunately, my mother stored it in a plastic garment bag and hung it in the rafters of my dad's barn for 25 years and it discolored. Dry cleaners couldn't do anything with it. I still have it in our attic and finally fit back into it.

 

[Brett]

I managed to get rid of 35 years of business stuff in three months. I managed to get rid of alot of personal things too. My problem is it created room for more items and it seems like as soon as an area gets cleared it begins to fill up.

Some things I don't want are the many things we were stuck with when my inlaws passed, my kids crap from their school days which now includes their wedding dresses, prom dresses and all sorts of things. I keep telling the kids I'm going to sell their crap on ebay and they think I'm joking, lol.

Bill

It was hard to sell my parents old furniture on craigslist
But listing it for free works

 

[WinniWoman]

It was hard to sell my parents old furniture on craigslist
But listing it for free works

Free or real cheap is what people will take. There is almost no second hand market for furniture.

 

[geekette]

I managed to get rid of 35 years of business stuff in three months. I managed to get rid of alot of personal things too. My problem is it created room for more items and it seems like as soon as an area gets cleared it begins to fill up.

Some things I don't want are the many things we were stuck with when my inlaws passed, my kids crap from their school days which now includes their wedding dresses, prom dresses and all sorts of things. I keep telling the kids I'm going to sell their crap on ebay and they think I'm joking, lol.

Bill

My folks started wrapping up crap we'd left behind and sending as Christmas gifts. We all got a kick out of it and would wonder what long lost treasure would show up this year???

 

[Glynda]

My folks started wrapping up crap we'd left behind and sending as Christmas gifts. We all got a kick out of it and would wonder what long lost treasure would show up this year???

Great idea. I know what I'm sending my daughter for Christmas from her memory box in the attic!

 

[WinniWoman]

Great idea. I know what I'm sending my daughter for Christmas from her memory box in the attic!

When we sorted through the attic before this move, we put some memory things in a box we had already started for Alex and we threw everything else out. When he came to our timeshare this past summer- we had loaded up the car with his stuff that he had in his room and attic that he told us he wanted and gave him the memory box as well. He knew we meant business. Take it or it gets dumped!

 

[easyrider]

My folks started wrapping up crap we'd left behind and sending as Christmas gifts. We all got a kick out of it and would wonder what long lost treasure would show up this year???

Ok, so this is the best idea ever. I'm all in !!!

Bill