Hoarders
Is a TV show about people incapable of throwing anything away.
I’m anxious to not appear on it anytime soon.
For a month or so, I’ve been tunneling through my belongings and taking at least one large garbage can a week out to the road. This week, it was filled with old notebook computers (pre-windows) a dart board that didn’t have the smarts to play Cricket, a BUNCH of old paper and advertising, and about a hundred broken and empty jewelcases.
No, I have NO IDEA why I was keeping that shit. But it’s gone now. And more is following behind. I want my house to look like an Ikea ad. Just before I blow it up, and move into an abandoned house on Paper street and start making soap.
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Og, you think that’s bad, when we moved last year, I tossed out an H-89 computer. A pre-DOS computer that had 64K of RAM. I kept it that long because I built it from a kit when I was in college in 1983.
Og also threw out two Greek abacuses, but he’ll never admit it.
(runs away laughing!)
I have stuff in the garage that I know goes back to 1971 or earlier. I mean, furnace parts and construction materials and crap Dad brought home from various engineering jobs he had…
This summer I’m getting a dumpster and it’s all going away. Unless someone is actually LOOKING for a set of 5KW heater coils from a 1973 Bryant electric furnace or some such.
Every time I watch the Hoarders show I am motivated to start cleaning and throwing away. Finally got rid of the old vinyl records and the huge pile of National Geographics.
OH NOES!!! Not the vinyl records!!!!!
Free commodore 64s to a good home…
Don’t have cable, but concur. Our problem is space. There isn’t any room for accumulations. We have to keep a tight ship or we’ll push ourselves out onto the street, if something new comes in something old has to go out.
“Finally got rid of the old vinyl records and the huge pile of National Geographics. “
Umm… Nancy?
Both are worth real dollars on Ebay.
Don’t need to clean out anything. Yet. There are still lots of places where you can almost see the floor. Kinda.
Gerry N.
I have a barn.
Problem solved. For now.
LOL! Yep, Unk, I often wish for a 40X60 pole barn myself.
Please don’t tell me you tossed a bunch of CP/M laptops.
386 with math co’s. Dead as a doornail, every one.
At least your mother’s not giving you grief about keeping things in the family that … really don’t need to be kept. It’s a loveseat, Ma. And I’m not that close to my dad’s cousin’s kids. Get over it.
…Oh, for a Kaypro II with the bundled software!
Told son that if I get anymore boxes of whatever to hold till he’s back from Iraq, I’m charging him for the cost of a new shed to store the crap in.