Having STUFF...anybody identify with me here?

[Car Doc]

The bad thing about stuff is having enough sheds/buildings to keep them out of the weather buildings are another thing you can never have enough of well up the point the taxes eat you alive.

 

[drssg]

You guys are just talking about junk, right?
You can't be talking about tractors and implements and cool power tools.
That's good stuff, and I NEED it ALL!

 

[JDgreen227]

You guys are just talking about junk, right?
You can't be talking about tractors and implements and cool power tools.
That's good stuff, and I NEED it ALL!

You got that one right....my wife's clothing, craft supplies, record albums, textbooks, etc, that are thrown into closets and spare bedrooms...THOSE ARE JUNK.

My carefully sorted out and organized hardware, tools, building materials, old and non-running lawn care equipment and tools....that stuff is WORTH KEEPING. If you asked my wife to show you her 1991 income tax return (yes, she has kept it someplace) she would take HOURS to find that. As for me, if you asked to have some 2 inch roofing nails, a pair of 6 inch landscape spikes, a 300 watt quartz halogen bulb, a drain spade, a can of two stroke oil, etc. I could find it in two minutes or describe the location it is at well enough for YOU to find it within four minutes.

Junk is disorganized, good stuff is organized....:laughing:

 

[Larry Caldwell]

My family quit exchanging Christmas presents 20 years ago because we all had too much STUFF. When my wife finds something in the way, she puts it in my office, which started to get real cluttered until I realized if she doesn't want it neither do I, so I either donated it to charity or threw it in the trash. Right now I'm staring at two new-in-box curtain rods, and have no idea what she bought them for. Tomorrow they go to Goodwill, and if she wants them she can go to Goodwill for them. They are also getting 50 unused hanging file folders and a rainproof folding clipboard. She's an impulse buyer, but then she doesn't want the stuff after she gets it home. Maybe I should put in on Craigslist.

 

[JDgreen227]

My family quit exchanging Christmas presents 20 years ago because we all had too much STUFF. When my wife finds something in the way, she puts it in my office, which started to get real cluttered until I realized if she doesn't want it neither do I, so I either donated it to charity or threw it in the trash. Right now I'm staring at two new-in-box curtain rods, and have no idea what she bought them for. Tomorrow they go to Goodwill, and if she wants them she can go to Goodwill for them. They are also getting 50 unused hanging file folders and a rainproof folding clipboard. She's an impulse buyer, but then she doesn't want the stuff after she gets it home. Maybe I should put in on Craigslist.

The scary thing for pack rats like me who donate stuff to Goodwill, I also BUY stuff there. Last month I dropped off an old 19 inch CRT and several boxes of books, and before I left the store, I looked around and found this nearly new Kodak multifunction printer, the ink cartridges are almost full, it works great....$9.99 plus tax !!! Buys like this are why I love thrift stores....and DON'T ASK how many printers I have already....:laughing:

 

[whiskywizard]

, sometimes I wish I didn't have so much stuff to care for and keep organized, and all the responsibilities that come with having to care for it all. :laughing:

I've started to post the Craigslist ad for you. It starts with "Free to a good home..." I just need your phone number so I can finish up.

 

[Car Doc]

The scary thing for pack rats like me who donate stuff to Goodwill, I also BUY stuff there. Last month I dropped off an old 19 inch CRT and several boxes of books, and before I left the store, I looked around and found this nearly new Kodak multifunction printer, the ink cartridges are almost full, it works great....$9.99 plus tax !!! Buys like this are why I love thrift stores....and DON'T ASK how many printers I have already....:laughing:

Does your wife and/or you do garage sales also?

My wife does and she thinks if 1 of something is good 10 is better I know about that kind of stuff too! :laughing:

I haven't bought any new work jeans ever.

 

[JDgreen227]

I've started to post the Craigslist ad for you. It starts with "Free to a good home..." I just need your phone number so I can finish up.

TBN Members are SO helpful....okay....

Home phone: (123) 456-7890

Cell phone: (NOT) ARE-LNBR

Email: TOOMUCHSTUFF@Gmail.com

Thanks so much....:laughing:

 

[grsthegreat]

I had one former employee that would ALWAYS leave the dump with the truck being heavier than when he entered. I think its a sickness....

 

[Taylortractornut]

I work at a landfill and I m a pack rat lol. Its an industrial landfill though so its all good stuff. Used to when the trailer plant owned it I was a teenager. I went to work with dad alot and learned one thing if half something came out there the other half was on the way maybe 6 minutes or six weeks. I can spot a goody mid travel from the D5. I would box items up and wait for parts. Many tools I have are from there. Sold many dollars worth of things from there.

The outside of the shop looks like Sanford and Sons. I have old trucks tractor and implements. Im kind of a surplus sales yard now lol.

 

[Ken]

I have spent my spare time this past year throwing metal stuff from shop and storage area of the farm into a trailer and when full haul it to the scrap yard. Even with the high prices of metal the payment isn't a dime on the $10.00 on original purchase.
Still don't know what to do with all of the battery powered drill sanders and saws that the battery is a special type and not interchangable with the newer batterys. Craftsman Skill Dewalt all almost will work just a small difference in design. Keep wondering why these companys can't develop a common battery so tools could be used longer than short life time batterys.
And now everything is plastic junk yard doesn't want. cannot burn. despose properly says the information that comes with tool but then disposal yard wants a fee for the stuff.
Tractors placed on edge of road with for sale sign A few lookers all wants a deep discount but will not make and offer.
Begining to think the new generation of adults think if the paint is faded it is not worth buying.
The suggestion of taking to area of flee market to sell I cannot see I have the time to sit all day and haggle with some one that wants a 90 day warrenty on a purchase.of $2.00
Guess could use the method of putting in building with sign on door Saying " No Trespassing Keep Out" then would be broken into and stolen.
Any suggestions ?
ken

 

[JDgreen227]

I work at a landfill and I m a pack rat lol. Its an industrial landfill though so its all good stuff. Used to when the trailer plant owned it I was a teenager. I went to work with dad alot and learned one thing if half something came out there the other half was on the way maybe 6 minutes or six weeks. I can spot a goody mid travel from the D5. I would box items up and wait for parts. Many tools I have are from there. Sold many dollars worth of things from there.

The outside of the shop looks like Sanford and Sons. I have old trucks tractor and implements. Im kind of a surplus sales yard now lol.

The local Goodwill store 3 1/2 miles away had people dropping stuff off at night in the back although there are signs posted asking people not do that, and I have observed pickups backed up to their dumpsters at night, pretty sure people are rummaging thru their castoffs and not dumping stuff. I am sure you, as a TBN member, are an honest man and report the income you make from selling those discards....:laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

Ken, agree 100% with your comment about cordless tool batteries...it would make perfect sense for the companies to develop one universal battery mount, but then they might lose a sale because your Dewalt battery would fit a Skil drill...

My peeve along the same line is printer ink cartridges, would it be THAT difficult for the various companies to develop a universal fit cartridge?

 

[RoyJackson]

The local Goodwill store 3 1/2 miles away had people dropping stuff off at night in the back although there are signs posted asking people not do that, and I have observed pickups backed up to their dumpsters at night, pretty sure people are rummaging thru their castoffs and not dumping stuff. I am sure you, as a TBN member, are an honest man and report the income you make from selling those discards....:laughing:

My wife worked at a Good Will store until it closed about 2 months ago.
A packrat working in a Good Will is like a drunk working as a bartender...

 

[JDgreen227]

My wife worked at a Good Will store until it closed about 2 months ago.
A packrat working in a Good Will is like a drunk working as a bartender...

Which is why, although retired, with 35 years experence in shipping, recieving, and warehousing, I have never applied for work there....

 

[JRobyn]

Guess could use the method of putting in building with sign on door Saying " No Trespassing Keep Out" then would be broken into and stolen.
Any suggestions ?
ken

Guess y'all have all heard the old story (might even be true) about the folks that bought a new washer and dryer - moved the still good old ones out to the street with a sign - "Good used washer and dryer; FREE!". They sat and sat. So they changed the sign - "Good used washer and dryer; $100 ea". The next night someone stole them.

;-)

 

[JRobyn]

This has been a timely thread for me. My dad died last Saturday and my step mom cannot live independantly, so we are now tasked with cleaning out their house. They were BOTH packrats. Despite that some of their accumulated STUFF might have significant value, it will probably all wind up at Goodwill or the dump. There is simply not enough time to really go through it carefully. Ahh well, we have known this was coming for quite some time.

 

[grsthegreat]

oh i cant ever find fault with charging too much for used items..hehe

I had an old 1986 dodge utility truck that i bought USED at a so.cal gas company auction for $2,500 back in around 1990. Had about 200,000 miles on it but body wise looked nice.

I kept it 6 years and tried to sell it for $1,000 for about 2 months when i was planning on my move to Idaho. NO lookers or takers. Someone suggested i wasnt asking enough, and people would think it was junk. I re-ran the ad for $3,000.

I got several hits and someone offered me $2,000 cash for it. Of course being the nice guy i am, I nearly fainted and acepted the bid without a counter offer.

I guess everyone here hording stuff should try to sell their stuff for rediculous amount of $$ on Craigslist. who knows it just might work

 

[JDgreen227]

This has been a timely thread for me. My dad died last Saturday and my step mom cannot live independantly, so we are now tasked with cleaning out their house. They were BOTH packrats. Despite that some of their accumulated STUFF might have significant value, it will probably all wind up at Goodwill or the dump. There is simply not enough time to really go through it carefully. Ahh well, we have known this was coming for quite some time.

OP here, I am sincerely sorry about the death of your father, as well as the loss of independence for his spouse. It was not my intention to start this thread in the instance a TBN member had to deal with your issue, and I apologize if you found it offensive.

Yet, odds are, many of us will deal with the same situation you have in the future, and I am looking on the bright side...my wife will probably outlive me, and we don't have any kids, meaning she will get a payback for all her packrattery I have endured during out 22 years together so far...everybody got that? :thumbsup:

 

[JRobyn]

Thx JD - absolutely NO offense taken!