I'm crashing at my parents atm (including my family).
Counted 10 chairs in one room - they are couple of 70 year olds that never have guests.
7 mops in bathroom. About 20 huge bowls in one of kitchen drawers.
I'm just trying to offload the excess to some storage to make their (and mine) lives easier, but oh boy.
I counted more than 200 dishes in a house of 2 :(
Re:The great junk transfer is coming
by MafellUser on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:22AM
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For the tables, in some markets they're primed for being upcycled and you can make some pretty bucks.
Careful with this, it's the thinking process which leads to hoarding behavior if unchecked.
Have you already refurbished a couple tables just for fun? It might make sense to flip some furniture as a hobby.
If you haven't, this is a recipe for being that guy with too many tables, whose friends drive by with a half-filled trailer and ask, politely, if maybe they want to throw something away today.
One friend showed me a bag with a heap of kiwi fruit fluff they had collected a decade ago. Nothing to see here.
One friend had too many tables, so I thought it might help them to grok the absurdity of that if I gave them a bunch more tables (tables which someone else was discarding): that didn’t work because they now have tables stacked up on one another. Nice enough tables, but I feel bad. Also it is very likely I will help them move . . .
I am semi-retired, but I still need to take care I am not wasting my time.
The free trailer load to the dump is fun mental jujutsu because dumping stuff isn’t cheap: someone who just can’t pass up a bargain trying to choose stuff to throw out for free! Needs a believable reason why it is “free” e.g. neighbour already paid me, or work is paying for it.
I haven’t done the book one exactly, but I have done similar.