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To be fair, I think our house went to hell after Carter died. We just sorta stopped caring about some things. So some of this clutter is over 10 years old, and that sucks.

I'm learning to be less sentimental about some things, and I hear the advice about taking in my parents' clutter. I may accept it, but it's going to a thrift store or to be recycled where possible (like with useless clothes). What my mom doesn't know, etc. There is an independent thrift store in Markdale, ON, that we support, and they really like us. We don't "donate" at Value Village anymore.
 
Our house has a fair bit of space around it. There is an almost double garage and three sheds. There is NOTHING of mine in those packed spaces. Neither of us knows for sure what is in them, and most of it is difficult to get to. A regular topic between us is my desire to ha e my Best Beloved deal with his 'stuff'. I doubt he ever will.
 
My wife is not immune. Some of it is hers, like her yarn stash. More of it is from her parents' house and she hasn't gone through it yet.
 
chansen said:
To be fair, I think our house went to hell after Carter died. We just sorta stopped caring about some things. So some of this clutter is over 10 years old, and that sucks.

I'm learning to be less sentimental about some things, and I hear the advice about taking in my parents' clutter. I may accept it, but it's going to a thrift store or to be recycled where possible (like with useless clothes). What my mom doesn't know, etc. There is an independent thrift store in Markdale, ON, that we support, and they really like us. We don't "donate" at Value Village anymore.
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You're carrying so much. It's really strong of you to share this.

It sounds like you're taking steps to find a balance between honoring the past and creating space for the future. It seems like you've found a thoughtful way to let go of items by supporting the thrift store in Markdale. That connection must feel meaningful.

And as for your parents' clutter, it sounds like you're handling it with care
 
To be lugging so much material ...

Consider the singular of cos-moses and Moses being singular minded, capital! The solution is cosmos and a place to put stuff outa Yah Eire head ...

There are numerous words for suck delicate memes ... some even say multiple universe so you can separate the stuff ...

Imagine in abstract how much of this stuff you don't remember what it was even for! Such is foreign intelligence or disposed thinking ... common people exhibit a distaste for the thought process ... it is lumped together in a cluster fo'que!
 
I need to do some decluttering around here. I've been working on cutting down my yarn stash and have done a decent job of it. Now the space that holds the yarn can be fixed up. We have storage under the bed every time I go into that space, I am reminded that things there can go.

I was looking for something in the spot where I keep my yarn the other day. I was pleasantly surprised that I had the energy to pull things out, clean and tidy. Of course I didn't actually do it at that point. It's not a task that gets started at 8 pm.

Decluttering and organizing in this space is rather like a Tetris game....... some mental planning needs to happen to have a strategy. Otherwise it gets overwhelming. I'm in the percolating phase right now.
 
Jaebius said:
You're carrying so much. It's really strong of you to share this.

It sounds like you're taking steps to find a balance between honoring the past and creating space for the future. It seems like you've found a thoughtful way to let go of items by supporting the thrift store in Markdale. That connection must feel meaningful.

And as for your parents' clutter, it sounds like you're handling it with care
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How do you write this? Do you feed the bits you want to say into AI and it spits this out? Do you put my post into AI and let it come up with a reply on its own?
 
chansen said:
How do you write this? Do you feed the bits you want to say into AI and it spits this out? Do you put my post into AI and let it come up with a reply on its own?
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Speak from my heart, chansen. And occasionally my mind. My words are my own
 
chansen said:
How do you write this? Do you feed the bits you want to say into AI and it spits this out? Do you put my post into AI and let it come up with a reply on its own?
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Just expect that is a herculean heist needing the great span of Rhodes ... and reciprocal to the Greek Λ which westerners trashed as prodigal! Mark Twain wrote on it in depth as leagues (sometimes un fathomed). The masses will not go that far due to 3 great forces: fear, anger and stupidity that has been sainted ... only in essence they say!

When departing reality and materialism it is said there is another world ... that mystery dark ness called sole ... duck or you could be crushed for compost ... a raison enigma ... etae ... to be? Alas ... down we go into the great Wahl ... what's there is familiar ... just unknown!

You have to read such things with caution or you could fall in it ... oeuvre? Alien portal ... into a place of know how ... embarrassing ... thus diabolical red faces!
 
After that I off to the Pub to resolve other troublesome "thors" of byres and those that support Canon and Bull ... just like the Jesus we put down! Real people hate dah light in all forms ... thus the realm of nothing as no-such-thing ... material-ess?
 
My two close thrift stores are independent
Born Again-from the Anglican Church
and The Lily Ann aka the 5 Cs as 5 churches started it.
Both give funds raised back to the community.
I dropped a bag of books, clothes, and dvds off yesterday.
and bought a skort-it was 1/2 price so was $2
 
Resurrecting the Anti-Iess-iahs. We made some headway inside the house in the spring, but with my projects done, everything in the garage and workshop, and the sides of the house, are an unmitigated disaster.

Some materials will go north to where I have to build a shed for my folks. I will repurpose some of the temporary walls I built into walls for the shed. I also have two interior doors that were used to limit pedestrian access to the jobsite, and I can't even donate them because Habitat for Humanity has all the doors they need. To the dump they go I guess. I can't store them.
 
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