Gee, thanks for this thread. I was going to load up and go fishing tomorrow. I guess I need to continue "going through things" and try to get rid of a bunch of stuff we don't use anymore....
Giving your stuff away...
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Not so much because I'm older, I'm over 50, but just decluttering. We went down from a 3 car to a 2 car garage when we sold and moved out farther so I had to get rid of stuff I was just holding onto.
I had 6 crates of bicycle stuff and at least 8 spare wheels, a couple of frames I was looking to build up, and so forth. I gave away probably $1500-$2000 of my stash bicycle parts, frames, wheels and odds and ends. I donated them to Yellow Bike Project which specializes in low cost bikes for the community and helping people to work on their own bikes. Just didn't have room for it anymore and it needed to be gone. I will take a tax writeoff on my 2023 taxes for sure. I'm down to 2 crates now and a couple spare wheels, no spare frames around waiting for a project anymore.
There were a lot of other odds and ends that departed as well. We gave away a bunch of stuff to the local Brazilian diaspora because my wife is Brazilian.
I drew a red line on my garage tools though. Not getting rid of any of those no matter what wifey says. I'm not departing with my distributor wrench even though we don't have any cars with distributors. I will again someday
Gave my son my self propelled mower when I bought a zero turn for myself. I gave him a stand by 1100 watt generator when I had a Generac installed. I've given numerous cars away, never traded one in.
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you cant take it with you.........why not.
Swedish "Death Cleaning"
My wife of 42 years passed recently, so I am knee deep in her death cleaning and realized just last PM that I am also doing my own.
Highly recommend "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" by Margareta Magnusson. Very thin book, easy read, thought provoking.
Highly recommend "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" by Margareta Magnusson. Very thin book, easy read, thought provoking.
My boss would love to give away the three night shift workers. Pretty useless and blowing vehicles up recently.
I gave some of my jeans, boots etc to my neighbor who is always walking or working on something.
I used to sell laptops and phones when I upgrade(which I do often) but now I have neices and nephews growing up so tend to give the older stuff to them.
The Fender guitar.
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What amazes me today is often someone will ask if we want something. Then they attach a price to it. Times have changed imho.
My friend gave me a 1970 LeMans Sport that I drove almost a year. Today for a similar car someone might say they want $500
I also had someone say they were gonna give me a 1979 Monte Carlo only 5 years old but then he gave it to someone else. Key is gave it for free.
It is a good feeling, right? I gave away my lawnmower and now my buddy’s used it 2 years.
He makes more money than I do so it’s not the money. It’s that he can avoid having to get a new one, I can help out and free up shed space
My friend gave me a 1970 LeMans Sport that I drove almost a year. Today for a similar car someone might say they want $500
I also had someone say they were gonna give me a 1979 Monte Carlo only 5 years old but then he gave it to someone else. Key is gave it for free.
It is a good feeling, right? I gave away my lawnmower and now my buddy’s used it 2 years.
He makes more money than I do so it’s not the money. It’s that he can avoid having to get a new one, I can help out and free up shed space
