10-25% success in actual disposal

[msilverstar]

I'm glad to have a community for this!

Our kitchen will be demolished April 2-3, and we have to get everything out (also part of the dining room) by then. We have not moved in 30 years. So it's Significant Enforced Unluttering. So many things remind me of who I was as a teenager, as a student, as a daughter, as a mother: it's hard to get rid of them. I even hate trashing expired (very very expired) food, old notes, rusty cupcake tins. Sigh.

But for the usable stuff I'm trying to find targets recipients. I have help from a young person who works in a bookstore, (therefor deeply underpaid) and she took some, and I'm going to put some down on the street, but it's weird, people don't take perfectly nice stuff like a fleece blanket. I found a great local resource in Berkeley, Urban Ore which is basically a 3-acre garage sale! I feel better sending stuff to them than just trashing it or pushing to a thrift store.

Whew. That vent felt good!

Comments

[vysila]

Enforced uncluttering can be tough, but ooh, getting a new kitchen is going to be wonderful! It is definitely tough to do - I had to deal with that a few years for a big remodel. Memories can really slow down the decision process.

Your Urban Ore place sounds like a great resource for uncluttering. It is SO frustrating when people/places won't take perfectly acceptable items and you end up trashing things.

[msilverstar]

If the floor tiles weren't cracking we'd have done a smaller update, but I'm pretty sure there's some rot down there too

[vysila]

Sometimes we just don't get the option we'd prefer, do we? But definitely best to get the whole project done properly the first time around rather than having to tear things up a second or third time. Good luck, I have a good idea just how stressful this is for you.

[msilverstar]

Thanks! And JWTS I love your icon

[vysila]

Oh thank you!