Featured Hoarder or storer?

Welcome Annietiques!!!

 

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet but there are fake 50s and 100s that pass the pen test and also have the embedded strip. I only accept 20s or smaller now.

 

I won't show you pictures of my house... you'll think I live in a motel.

But MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN, I would LOVE to dig into y'all's piles!!!!!!!

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Oh, and..... hi, Annie. Hola and welcome to the Forums!

 

We just moved to a new home, and finaly got my man's cave.
It just exposed some of my stuff temporarly, because I couldn't stand it having it in boxes and not knowing what was where.
There is a lot to be re-done here, so priority goe's to other parts of the house.

 

so... here is my "hoard room" aka: cake stand museum / glass photography room. I do try to limit the 'hoarding' to this one room...

 

Oh, mannnnnnnnn... (men)...
I wanna go ferret through your stuff!!!!!
I have recurrent dreams about visiting somebody and they have piles of goodies and they let me go through them and pick myself a present or two.

 

Just stop by on your next trip thru town GG. I'm sure we can find some sparkly eye candy that you would like : )

 

I finally got all of the "stuff" out of my ex-shop buildings and invited friends and neighbors over to pilfer the rest of whatever I had to leave behind. I'm grateful to have sold my circa 1885 house to a pottery artist. This property had 4 buildings for nearly a total of 4000 sq.ft of storage space, at one point there were just a few narrow paths through the buildings and boxes were stacked up about 5' high! It took me a long time (years) to get it done before the act of sale and the buyer was very gracious to agree to accept whatever I wanted to leave.

I still shop a little bit but now I'm opening boxes I haven't seen since the mid-1990s and that's "shopping" all over again for me!

I'd like to ebay some of the nicer items, but I am not yet able to get down on the floor to reconnect my printer machine to the new router that was installed.

 

My ex-biz property listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. My (never open to the general public) shop was the large front house, my construction workshop was the smaller building constructed to "look old" and there were a couple more buildings that are hidden from this front view. I'll miss being the owner, but I sure won't miss the maintenance and expense!

 

I know the feeling! It is happening to me too, now.
It took me 6 months, on a daily base, to move my stuff. All in one 500 m2 storage building at the end of our proprety now!
I still informe my wife i am going to the warehouse, only don't need a car now to go there.
I am also planning to have a "not open to general public shop" in a part of the building.
Very nice house (yours!!) BTW!!

 

Nice house, nice stuff...

Nice offer, TallCakes! That's on my bucket list!!!!!

 

Looking through some old threads this morning, I found this one. One of my favorite threads! So thought I'd comment to bring it back to the top.

 

Thanks Fig! I loved this thread too!

I was pleasantly surprised to see my old photo just above! The new owner has done a righteous job fixing it up! She raises Monarch Butterflies and has a butterfly garden growing in one of my old clawfoot tubs in the yard! So grateful to have found "the right" owner. --Why is that important when it comes to our stuff?

I managed to gather too much stuff in my life and it's a good reminder to downsize appropriately. And often. Reading what others are doing to downsize helps me. Please bring out your stories!

Here is one of mine:

I have had some life expenses and my agent files the long tax forms for me. I found out I can take a tax deduction of about five bucks per book if they are new books, so that may be what happens to my entire collection of nice new books that I bought when I was younger to sell when I was older. It's really sad that books seem no longer to be in high demand. But by this method, I can about break even and help other new book sellers.

I like to donate to a small local thrift that benefits animals. They don't write in the books and they sell them for cheap, like twenty five cents. They can certainly get more for nicer books though sometimes they have a sale for half price of twenty five cents. (I've already given them back all of the books ever I bought from them!) So by this method I can benefit new sellers who have the motivation I once did and I will only handle my heavy books once more.

I welcome suggestions on how others downsize.

 

Oh, and happy to mention that I can now get back down onto the floor again!
And bought a new router from the cable company to remedy that problem!

But have yet to go back online with sales. ::sigh::
I'm not sure I have the heart to sell anymore. I really never did.
I always sold my stuff too inexpensively just to move it out.
I've been a "dealer's dealer" but on such a small scale because I could barely stand to part with anything, so I had garage sales. I'm not looking forward to having another garage sale ever again.

I imagine some "estate sale" could be a calamity for my future and prefer not to "go there" just yet, but piecemeal out the door : there'd not be enough hours in a day! I don't have the option of a small auction house venue and the larger ones really only want the nicest of stuff.

Encouragements welcomed!

 

Downsizing is a good topic for this thread! I've been considering selling my house, mostly because I don't like doing most yard work. I hire people to do some of it but there's a lot more to do!

Anyway, selling the house would give me a good motivation to go through things and decide whether or not I need them. Not sure whether I need to actually downsize or not, but... if I don't want to take care of a yard that might mean a condo or an apartment. And either of those is likely to be smaller than the house. (Although, not necessarily.) Was just thinking the other day about how to downsize in that event.

 

Go online and sell!

Get better prices and clear your old stuff.

And best of all, there will be room for new stuff

 

I apologize for the necropost, but I happened on this thread and found it fascinating!

Not a lot to add, but hearkening back to the beginning, I can still see my floors so I guess that makes me a storer.

 

Oh that is a good idea for coin storage. Tool bin storage. Hmmm my to go through piles of coins are in boxes, bags, and jars.

 

A new (to me) word! Thanks!

 

Something of a trip down memory lane for me with the old pictures. The garage is now tidyish with romm for a car, the shed is fairly tidy but still with loads of junk, the house rooms shown are now rooms not store rooms, with a modest selection of items on display, and I have pretty well stopped buying anything much apart from the odd thing or two to keep till I'm dead.
My partner has recently inherited a house and contents from her father, and now stuff from there is appearing despite megatons being discarded to charity shops or the tip.

Since it is not me keeping the stuff it is all pretty small and manageable but laden with memories.