Comments on: I’m Fighting Our Stuff. It’s Winning. http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/ A San Francisco stay-at-home dad getting the hang of things. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: doodaddy http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/comment-page-1/#comment-6293 doodaddy Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:44:55 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/#comment-6293 Amen. The management of our stuff has become a major job in itself. And not a very fun one. Amen. The management of our stuff has become a major job in itself.

And not a very fun one.

]]> By: mom, again http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/comment-page-1/#comment-6286 mom, again Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:06:45 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/#comment-6286 Just Powers, let me tell you, it won't work. We moved overseas last year, and only brought 33 boxes. That is, only the clothes, books and kitchen items remaining to us after much thoughtful sorting. Considering the cost per pound of an overseas move, and also subtracting the items lost to scavenging daughters age 20 and 22 who made me guilty they could no longer live at home due to home moving away. I gave them all sorts of stuff from my pack pile cause I felt so bad about leaving them with only each other, no parents fridge to raid or washing machine to use during a budget crisis. If anyone truly wants to clear out, call and get the costs for shipping your stuff overseas, then sort through and only keep what seems truly worth the price. * And now, 18 months later? House full of crap. As full as before. Admittedly, we added a son to the family 3 months after arriving. But I can't blame him for anything stacked on shelves he can't reach, no, that's mommy's crap put up there out of reach! *10 years previously, we'd moved from east to west coast, and cleared out pretty well, I thought. I was shocked at the stuff appearing from the garage this time that never got unpacked from that move. The cost of moving those items coast to coast was a dead loss as they weren't unpacked or missed for TEN years. Admittedly, Just Powers, let me tell you, it won’t work.

We moved overseas last year, and only brought 33 boxes. That is, only the clothes, books and kitchen items remaining to us after much thoughtful sorting. Considering the cost per pound of an overseas move, and also subtracting the items lost to scavenging daughters age 20 and 22 who made me guilty they could no longer live at home due to home moving away. I gave them all sorts of stuff from my pack pile cause I felt so bad about leaving them with only each other, no parents fridge to raid or washing machine to use during a budget crisis. If anyone truly wants to clear out, call and get the costs for shipping your stuff overseas, then sort through and only keep what seems truly worth the price. *

And now, 18 months later? House full of crap. As full as before.

Admittedly, we added a son to the family 3 months after arriving. But I can’t blame him for anything stacked on shelves he can’t reach, no, that’s mommy’s crap put up there out of reach!

*10 years previously, we’d moved from east to west coast, and cleared out pretty well, I thought. I was shocked at the stuff appearing from the garage this time that never got unpacked from that move. The cost of moving those items coast to coast was a dead loss as they weren’t unpacked or missed for TEN years.
Admittedly,

]]> By: Just Powers http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Just Powers Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:16:52 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/#comment-1419 Weepy and panicky - I feel your pain. I have fantasies of just selling/chucking EVERYTHING we own/have/horded and starting all over with a completely empty house. Weepy and panicky – I feel your pain. I have fantasies of just selling/chucking EVERYTHING we own/have/horded and starting all over with a completely empty house.

]]> By: Dawn http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/comment-page-1/#comment-1402 Dawn Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:17:51 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2007/08/21/im-fighting-our-stuff-its-winning/#comment-1402 Man, we really were having the same day. I have 1 basket for the whole upstairs/downstairs thing. But the basket sat at the bottom of the steps for a couple weeks and is now sitting in the spare room - still full. Which is still better than when I took it from upstairs to downstairs and discovered a couple fuzzy, fermenting diapers in a bag of recyclables. Man, we really were having the same day. I have 1 basket for the whole upstairs/downstairs thing. But the basket sat at the bottom of the steps for a couple weeks and is now sitting in the spare room – still full.

Which is still better than when I took it from upstairs to downstairs and discovered a couple fuzzy, fermenting diapers in a bag of recyclables.

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