That’s “Dan’s Law of Storage Relativity”, which states: “No matter what the size of the living area, the amount of personal crap will always expand to exceed the available space.”
I am so, so happy that we only lived it the 4,000SF house in Indiana for about two years. I can’t imagine what it would have been like after 4-5 years. Years ago I was horribly sentimental about stuff. The wife straightened me out after a move or two. I am so glad she did. And I don’t collect anything, thank goodness. -D > On May 17, 2017, at 1:31 PM, Ed Booher via Mercedes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is it like the one from Back to the Future? I need one of those for the > DeLorean (that I don't have yet either, but I know a guy.) > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm decluttering now, we've been in our house 10 years and its full. The >> all-American thing to do is to get a bigger house, instead I'm getting rid >> of stuff. Anybody want a box of stuff? Rich and Phillip and OK Don have all >> gotten boxes from me in the past, you think you're getting one thing but >> the box includes a whole bunch of other stuff too... >> I have a computer box (a big box a computer came in) on the porch full of >> stuff that we don't want but haven't yet gotten to the Salvation Army. >> Probably got 5 times that much stuff to go. It bothers me that last year I >> took a pickup truck load to the SA and could do it again... >> Anybody want an HDV camcorder? JVC brand, works good. >> -Curt >> >> From: Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <[email protected]> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> >> Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:17 PM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] eBay W111 >> >> The sad part is you spend your life collecting things, or organizing >> things or whatever, then when you die it all probably gets thrown away. For >> example my grandmother used to record music off the radio and had a massive >> cassette collection and had it all catalogued so you should look for >> whatever song you wanted and it would tell you want tape. She also had a >> bunch of tv shows on VHS she used to record. When she died to took all that >> stuff and had it for many years piled up. When we moved I ended up tossing >> It all. It was hard to do but I just could not justify moving it again. >> Same with belongings that might not be really worth anything but you loved. >> It will just get tossed. I'm sure all my stuff will when I pass on. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
