Downsizing, decluttering etc.

[Pabmusic]

oh, I have Richard. I think we all have....

And (if you're like me) we've already had the comments. No need to wait till death.

[Beef Oven!]

That's not gender stereotyping, it's sexuality stereotyping!

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Good edit, makes all the difference!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's a danger in decluttering.

After my father died, it was necessary to dispose of a great deal of clutter. Just about everything in the garage was junk and could be disposed of. In the loft, there were many old postcards written to someone called Mabel. They seemed to have no value whatever. They went in the skip along with everything else.

A few months later, I began a project to write my family's history, based upon notes my father had made, and a large collection of old photos. When my sister heard of what I was doing, she sent me some letters my father had written. One of these referred to a collection of postcards he had kept - postcards my great uncle (then in British army) had sent to his daughter during WWI.

Oops!

Fortunately this was the only mistake I made in destroying evidence of family history.

[Beef Oven!]

There's a danger in decluttering.

After my father died, it was necessary to dispose of a great deal of clutter. Just about everything in the garage was junk and could be disposed of. In the loft, there were many old postcards written to someone called Mabel. They seemed to have no value whatever. They went in the skip along with everything else.

A few months later, I began a project to write my family's history, based upon notes my father had made, and a large collection of old photos. When my sister heard of what I was doing, she sent me some letters my father had written. One of these referred to a collection of postcards he had kept - postcards my great uncle (then in British army) had sent to his daughter during WWI.

Oops!

Fortunately this was the only mistake I made in destroying evidence of family history.

I threw out a whole bunch of letters I had in my loft. Various family members. I've had no come-back, but it frustrates me to think what might have been in there.

[Jonathan]

I've always kept things as they might be useful in the future but since we moved house, I've been a little less hoarding and things are gradually getting tidied.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Think very hard before throwing books away. I've regretted doing this quite a few times, and have searched the internet to find them again, often paying quite high prices.

And I've given up with this one.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Think very hard before throwing books away. I've regretted doing this quite a few times ...

I have done this only once (twenty-two years ago): NEVER AGAIN!

[Serial_Apologist]

Think very hard before throwing books away. I've regretted doing this quite a few times, and have searched the internet to find them again, often paying quite high prices.

And I've given up with this one.

Desperanto

[EdgeleyRob]

It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago.
The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up

[LeMartinPecheur]

I liked the word 'upcluttering' in an earlier post! That's what I still do, and hope to continue doing for years yet

Unfortunately Mrs LMP has told me very firmly that there is no more scope for 'upsizing' this house and is therefore trying to introduce a 'One in, one out' policy on books and discs

[Nick Armstrong]

It's the word

trying

which amused me in that post!

[Serial_Apologist]

It's the word

which amused me in that post!

Yes - extremely trying!

[Flosshilde]

I have done this only once (twenty-two years ago): NEVER AGAIN!

Throwing books away, or regretting throwing books away?

[Flosshilde]

I find a good clear-out a very cathartic and rewarding experience. One of the best Christmases we had was hiring a skip and having a darn good clear-out on Boxing Day.

The presents that year couldn't have been that bad, surely?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Throwing books away ... ?