Update on my move....
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Update on my move....
I thought about a lot of stuff, over the last few days.
One of those thoughts was about starting off fresh, and what that meant to me personally.
A lot of my furniture was donated or found, and there are some folks back where I was staying that could use a little help, so instead of keeping some of the heavy furnishings I gave them to folk that could use them rather than busting my hump over what I got for free anyhow.
And they were sure glad to have them!
Also, when I looked through the kitchen I saw a lot of stuff that had just been sitting on shelves, so I passed them along too.
Beans and rice, sacks of flour, pots and pans I quit using - that kind of stuff.
And a load of canned goods that never made it to the holiday charities because I got them after it was over.
~Sometimes Christmas comes a little late. Know what I mean?
And at times the things we give away give us a lot more than if we had kept them.
Either way, my load was lighter...
One of those thoughts was about starting off fresh, and what that meant to me personally.
A lot of my furniture was donated or found, and there are some folks back where I was staying that could use a little help, so instead of keeping some of the heavy furnishings I gave them to folk that could use them rather than busting my hump over what I got for free anyhow.
And they were sure glad to have them!
Also, when I looked through the kitchen I saw a lot of stuff that had just been sitting on shelves, so I passed them along too.
Beans and rice, sacks of flour, pots and pans I quit using - that kind of stuff.
And a load of canned goods that never made it to the holiday charities because I got them after it was over.
~Sometimes Christmas comes a little late. Know what I mean?
And at times the things we give away give us a lot more than if we had kept them.
Either way, my load was lighter...
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From: Southern California
Update on my move....
I know what you mean. Every once in a while it's good to unburden yourself of all the clutter in you life and start fresh.
I moved a year ago. I gave all the canned & packaged food to a neighborhood church that takes in the homeless on cold nights.
I got rid of boxes of stuff that hadn't even been opened up or used since before the previous two moves. Going back eight and fourteen years. You know, things like that old chainsaw that I was meaning to fix and those pants I would fit into again if I just lost a *little* weight. And all that cool junk I hauled home and then realised why nobody else wanted it either, LOL!
Gave away or sold furniture too, so the mrs could get some new stuff.
Now a year later I'm cleaning out the garage again.
The mrs calls me a packrat!
But I'm getting better, honest!
I moved a year ago. I gave all the canned & packaged food to a neighborhood church that takes in the homeless on cold nights.
I got rid of boxes of stuff that hadn't even been opened up or used since before the previous two moves. Going back eight and fourteen years. You know, things like that old chainsaw that I was meaning to fix and those pants I would fit into again if I just lost a *little* weight. And all that cool junk I hauled home and then realised why nobody else wanted it either, LOL!
Gave away or sold furniture too, so the mrs could get some new stuff.
Now a year later I'm cleaning out the garage again.
The mrs calls me a packrat!
But I'm getting better, honest!
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From: Baileyton, TN
Update on my move....
Good for you Wolf - to give to others makes so little difference to us, but often a very great difference to those who receive it. I think everyone should go to their cupboards and look at the stuff they have not used for over a year, and then box it, and give it to some individual who could use it. I do not think that it is necessary to take boxes of stuff to the Goodwill store, all of the time, just hand it around to those near you.. It is amazing how often an action can benefit all around it. I do this regularly, for two reasons: first my order suggests that I have a generous heart, so I try to have, and second, moving with accumulated chattels is so difficult. I manage to gather an amazing amount of stuff in a 12 month period.
Wm
F450 White with Grey interior Crew Cab. Banks Turbo, Intercooler and Exhuast,
Power pack Chip, shift kit, Auxiliary transmission, electronic enhanced transmission control,
16 forward and 4 reverse ratios. 340hp 660ft lb 4 wheel drive, 4.10 gears, 12,ooo# winch
Wm
F450 White with Grey interior Crew Cab. Banks Turbo, Intercooler and Exhuast,
Power pack Chip, shift kit, Auxiliary transmission, electronic enhanced transmission control,
16 forward and 4 reverse ratios. 340hp 660ft lb 4 wheel drive, 4.10 gears, 12,ooo# winch
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2001
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Update on my move....
I know what you mean, both of you.
Aside from the idea of all of that stuff going to waste, is the simple basic truth that it could be better used by others, and the fact is - what you give you don't have to pick up and carry!
But the biggest part of it I think, and something you can't either buy new, or find at the curb on certain days, is the feeling you get when you give something to somebody that really needs it bad.
And the look in their eyes when they just give you a simple honest "Thank You".
That's something that ain't for sale anywhere.
And I have some of that, whatever you want to call it.
There are no chemicals, no drugs, no booze, or anything else in the world that feel like that.
It's a pure people thing. And I'm sure I will do it again sometime in the future, one way or another.
~Wolf
Aside from the idea of all of that stuff going to waste, is the simple basic truth that it could be better used by others, and the fact is - what you give you don't have to pick up and carry!
But the biggest part of it I think, and something you can't either buy new, or find at the curb on certain days, is the feeling you get when you give something to somebody that really needs it bad.
And the look in their eyes when they just give you a simple honest "Thank You".
That's something that ain't for sale anywhere.
And I have some of that, whatever you want to call it.
There are no chemicals, no drugs, no booze, or anything else in the world that feel like that.
It's a pure people thing. And I'm sure I will do it again sometime in the future, one way or another.
~Wolf
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