tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415127067455662123.post5992898847640135899..comments2023-05-18T06:59:48.152-05:00Comments on The Recycled Cottage & Garden: DownsizingRecycled Cottage & Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209720538924091082noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415127067455662123.post-41575295948909767672013-10-08T16:05:37.202-05:002013-10-08T16:05:37.202-05:00ON THE OTHER HAND: After 60 years in the same hou...ON THE OTHER HAND: After 60 years in the same house, I moved in THREE DAYS, on purpose. When the moving boxes came in, I packed everything, then put EIGHT of those boxes on a truck and drove them to GOODWILL. I didn't know what was in those boxes, but I knew I couldn't take 56% of what I had.<br /><br />Three years later, I have only remembered TWO THINGS I no longer have.<br /><br />It's the difference between ripping off the bandaid or pulling it off slowly, along every hair on your arm.lotta joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12742978845913126675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415127067455662123.post-67612231341508276692013-10-07T06:36:54.556-05:002013-10-07T06:36:54.556-05:00I feel for you!
We downsized last year (to an RV) ...I feel for you!<br />We downsized last year (to an RV) and getting rid of the stuff was the hard part. A month was not enough time.<br />Books? The one used book store in the town was not interested in my collection & advised me to take them to the Goodwill.<br />Money spent on a storage locker for things you don't need is money gone but I had to do it.<br /><br />My advice? Take what you will need, things that will fit and put them some place away from everything else. Either the new place or a closed off room.<br /><br />Then have a moving sale, with everything else. <br />"Everything goes". All of it.<br /><br />What doesn't get sold gets taken to a charity or the land fill... or the storage locker you just rented, get a good lock for it.<br /><br />This is hard, it does take some time & you don't really have much of that left. <br />Good luck!Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415127067455662123.post-11414747632625498332013-10-06T03:48:30.743-05:002013-10-06T03:48:30.743-05:00Yes it is a tough job.
The people at the charity ...Yes it is a tough job. <br />The people at the charity shop must be singing your praises by now, and thanking you for your donations to a good cause.<br />I hope you can feel good about that part too.Cyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17238529292232175195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415127067455662123.post-20477193583672956072013-10-05T20:45:48.294-05:002013-10-05T20:45:48.294-05:00It's a tough job. It really is but I think yo...It's a tough job. It really is but I think you are doing it well.<br /><br />I appreciate all the fabric you gave me. Thank you!Debra Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959081275116311853noreply@blogger.com