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We've got stuff we've been carting around for decades, but it seems to take too much time to go through it and figure out what to do with it. There's those old record albums that I'd like to transfer to CD's, even though CD's are going out of date. Sets of dishes no longer used, but full of memories, some bad memories too. I keep lumber because there will be some day a use for it. When we moved here, the property came with an 1,800' "shop". A shop in Colorado is a big (ugly) metal building that can be used as a garage, workshop and place to store stuff. It got filled fast. About 20% got transformed into a heated workout room, so that was a good thing. But I need some of the space for tools and work benches to maintain the Airstream, property and house. Family photos, some of them transparencies that I have no way of viewing, go back 80 or more years, but I never have time to look at them. Books that I'll never look again look nice in bookcases, but maybe I'll ship them to eubank with no return address. I've got a 1992 computer that I'd have to pay someone to take, so it stays in a closet. Anyone interested in a 1985 Panasonic 13" TV? It works. Cash and carry.
Someday we will probably make one more major move. I dread it. The idea is to sell our property, tow the trailer somewhere we want to buy and live in it for a while, and ship all our stuff to store it wherever we end up. After we check out the market, we'll buy a house and bring our stuff to our new house. But what if we find we don't like it there? Ship tons of stuff all over the country over and over? That's the thing of nightmares.
Since there are scores of places we'd like to live, this could take decades to figure out, and then we'll be too old to either move or remember why we wanted to. But someone will inherit all this stuff and they'll have to figure out what to do with it. So, we get the last laugh.
It sure is easier to buy stuff than get rid of it.
Gene
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