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When you're in your 60s or 70s years from now. What you gonna do with your junk?

Velocity said:
I'm 68 now and spending time nearly every day, shoveling out the house. My husband never threw anything away and we lived in this house for 30 years. Tons of papers and just junk. I don't want my kids to have to deal with this after I'm gone. I have a lot of quilting supplies and I have realized that I will probably never live to use all of it. So, I am donating a lot of things to the Salvation Army and Goodwill. I hope I can get to the point where I can sell this place in 5 years or so.
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We are in our 50s and hoping to move soon, so I've hauled out several bags to the charity shop and Goodwill...but it's barely made a dent. Hubby has a MASSIVE collection of cassette tapes that he hasn't touched in ten years. I really don't want to haul that to a new home. I have a lot of books and dvds that I have pared down over the past year, and I also have some stuffed animals (yes, at my age) that were gifts from people or collectibles from trips (beefeater Bear from Harrod's, Star Trek bear from Vegas); I find myself emotionally attached to them as mementos. I also have a lot of Trek & other scifi autographed photos; I want to keep them but don't necessarily want to display them anymore.

A big problem is hubby wants to keep paper records of all bills for the past 5 years. I think this is ridiculous. We have a big, wooden file cabinet for all this paper. Other than tax records, I don't see a need to keep all this crap. If we had a fireplace, I'd probably burn most of it.

We have no children and I know my relatives don't want any of my junk, so most of what I own will probably end up in a charity shop or a landfill, I suppose.
 
We had to purge a lot of stuff for our move to Vegas. I feel like I went through a fire (it did not spark joy) and lost 85% of my stuff. And then of course there's the inevitable black hole that swallows up a bunch of items during the move itself.

I hate moving.
 
Hey if anyone wants to get ride of DVDs or blu-rays I would gladly take them off your hands if you want. I am actually trying to build my collection up.
 
When I suddenly had to assume control of my parents affairs, I purchased a document scanner (Brother ADS-200) so I could scan all their statements they had accumulated over the years.

With moving to online bill paying for all my utilities and e-statements for banking, I just download PDFs and save them.
 
I’m not going to throw away my old DVDs and video games as long as there’s any chance at all I will want to play them again.

Newer games and movies aren’t better or worse, they just have prettier graphics. And after things go 100% digital I’ll be glad I kept a permanent copy.

But yeah, non-media stuff I just toss, or sell if worth anything. Give away clothes I don’t wear, recycle papers.
 
depends on what you already have and YOU having other people send their crap to you its just gonna make you clog up your house with more junk. Pretty much might as well throw away movies for DVD even blu ray, movies that you think you might watch sometime but you do end up with a big junk pile of stuff yada yada.

I still have the Taken movies for blu ray that i bought from the Dollar General store from like 2-3 years ago. Still havent watched them.Meanwhile the Taken movies long with old crap like the Brendan Fraser Looney Tunes movies theyre taking up space in my storage tub. I also went through a storage tub of books which the tub is like 18 years old and still has old Garfield and Choose Your Own Adventure books and the old big hardcover of Stephen Kings It

You expect someone in their 40s-70s to still be reading Choose Your Own Adventure books 10-15 years from now or whatever? Nope. After finding out after my mother passing away this past Saturday last weekend with sewing materials and other crap Im making the right decision to get of certain things of mine such as movies, videogames, books and clothes.



Jayson1 said:
Hey if anyone wants to get ride of DVDs or blu-rays I would gladly take them off your hands if you want. I am actually trying to build my collection up.
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Yeah, you keep telling yourself that but then pretty soon you start to realize that those games and ovies you claim youre gonna play or watch theyre just taking up space. Here's a few things that Ive thrown away since yesterday and today

movies DVDs/blu ray
-Mel Gibson's Fatman
-Half Brothers
-William Shatner's Senior Moment movie. Only bought it so my mother would watch it when she asked for the movie. I dumped it off at the thrift store cause I just dont need it and I know i wouldnt rewatch it anymore anyway.
blu ray of Deck the Halls. its junk and ive seen plenty of it during christmas time at Dollar General stores.

videogames
All of my Nintendo DS Pokemon games I just dumped off at the thrift store yesterday. Really didnt need them anymore
few Nintendo 3DS games from Conceptio II, to Smash Brothers and that one strategy RPG game. Not Stella Glow but some other strategy RPG game

and just threw away some t shirts that were still in great shape but never had the time or even wanted to wear them. threw the away along with a really old pair of pajama pants.

I just dont want to be a hoarder/pack like my dead mother where she had tons of sewing material scattered around everywhere in her house
JirinPanthosa said:
I’m not going to throw away my old DVDs and video games as long as there’s any chance at all I will want to play them again.

Newer games and movies aren’t better or worse, they just have prettier graphics. And after things go 100% digital I’ll be glad I kept a permanent copy.

But yeah, non-media stuff I just toss, or sell if worth anything. Give away clothes I don’t wear, recycle papers.
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urrutiap said:
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that but then pretty soon you start to realize that those games and ovies you claim youre gonna play or watch theyre just taking up space. Here's a few things that Ive thrown away since yesterday and today
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They're not even really taking up that much space, but whatever. I'm sure you're a mind reader and can predict the future of everyone's gaming behavior. :)

It's different for me because before I was making money I went through and sold everything on ebay and made thoughtful decisions about what I wanted to play again ad what I didn't. Then with the movies I went through trying to watch the top several hundred in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They and seriously collect. I haven't just been accumulating the new thing I fancy at the time. I'm sure there are a good third of them I would be willing to give up.
 
One thing I would suggest is to not get ride of DVDs and big rays due to increasing censorship happening in society. It could soon be the only way to watch some movies or shows or even unedited versions of some shows and movies.
 
i dont care, Jayson1. Someday you will understand that when youre in your 50s, 60s etc and youre still draggin around junk at that age you should have thrown that crap way when you were in your 40s.

Looking at all the junk that my mother kept/hoarded in her house and storage shed i decided to get rid of my own junk which I do know that i aint gonna use or watch or whatever. I get tired of reasoning with people like you, Jayson1
 
urrutiap said:
i dont care, Jayson1. Someday you will understand that when youre in your 50s, 60s etc and youre still draggin around junk at that age you should have thrown that crap way when you were in your 40s.

Looking at all the junk that my mother kept/hoarded in her house and storage shed i decided to get rid of my own junk which I do know that i aint gonna use or watch or whatever. I get tired of reasoning with people like you, Jayson1
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I wasn't trying to give you a hard time. I even see the value of getting ride of old junk. I was wondering though about the idea of getting ride of all of it except maybe the DVDs and blu rays since your access to those movies will go away completely if they are swooped up in censorship.
 
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