I've sent to the thrift store 30 boxes/bags of stuff since I got to Montreal. Not sure how much stuff I threw away. I got rid of all the food I was hoarding - some of it was expiration 2011. Still working on the spicesThe goal is to fit into our small house. I've a way to go since I also have a storage box and stuff at my mother's summer home. We have a place called Value Village that's run by the same people who run Saver's in MA, where I used to shop. I completed my set of Tramontina pots there.
At any rate here they were having a promotion where if you got ten stamps on a card you got a 30% discount. I had four cards, one was full and the others were between five and seven stamps full and there were times we didn't get the stamps because we were in a hurry. I pile things in boxes and when we have a carload we go. It's rare for something to come out of a box and stay in the house. The next load has an old TV/monitor, an air purifier, a fan, some kitchen stuff, clothes.
It helped to lose 60 pounds when I got here - I did save some of the big clothes but only a couple of days worth in case I get sick again. No clue how much of anything I have but it all fits in my closet except for my hawaiian shirt collection which is in boxes and which is a collection not a hoard. I only collect ones made in Hawaii, and I wear them all in the summer.
At some point I am hoping to get rid of some of my computers. I have 3 netbooks (1 works), three notebooks (all in varying conditions of working) and two desktops. Not really hoarding the netbooks, just don't know how to get rid of them. One is junk but the other two are semi-functional. One I will keep as a backup XP machine. The notebooks - one I use daily, the other overheats but is a drawing tablet, and the third is an XP machine that I will be using shortly to work with some Mp3 players I am hoarding. The computers - one is a generic thing that I got when the overheating notebook died a horrible death (since resurrected) and i had papers to grade. It doesn't have the memory I needed to play minecraft so I got another one, but that one has windows 10 which I hate so currently both are hooked up to my monitor and I am using the W10 machine primarily for gaming.
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