Purging stuff

oshawacliff · Poncho Master!

Purging stuff

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

So liberating Cliff, Way to go.

I'm in the same process, its all gotta go including the old car. Life is getting short so we need to free ourselves from these burdens!!

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

My wife and I decided a few months ago that our basement is getting a major purge this winter. It all started when her 98 year old mother decided to move into a small apartment from her 1200 sq ft 2 bedroom condo. My wife went to help and realized that we have WAY more stuff than her mom, and we realized how pointless a lot of our stuff is. We go years without using/touching a lot of the stuff.

ARCADIAN · Poncho Master!

After 52 of marriage made a decision to send 100's of items to auction. Bank account now topped up by $1600.Will be doing it again in the spring!

-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Thursday 12th of October 2023 12:13:57 PM

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

ARCADIAN wrote:
After 52 of marriage made a decision to send 100's of items to auction. Bank account now topped up by $1600.Will be doing it again in the spring!

-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Thursday 12th of October 2023 12:13:57 PM

$1600, not too shabby!!

ARCADIAN · Poncho Master!

Yes Ray it was alright/ $1600 for us and $800 commission for the auction house, but we got rid of a lot of stuff. Also donated about 4 large boxes to Value Village and Bibles for Missions

-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Thursday 12th of October 2023 03:34:17 PM

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

How big is a grocery bin? We don't use that term out west.

LeeRoy · Guru

Old car Ray? Selling or gifting to a family member?

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

LeeRoy wrote:
Old car Ray? Selling or gifting to a family member?

I'll try and sell it and top up my TFSA! May give some to kids too.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

The Corvette too Ray?

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

seventy2plus2 wrote:
How big is a grocery bin? We don't use that term out west.

Still trying to figure out what a grocery bin is. Is that what we call a grocery cart?

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Most of the time we order our groceries online, set up a pickup time and park in designated areas. We have 4 bins the size of recycle bins that we purchased. We specify how many bins we have when we order and our groceries come in the same amount of bins. The employee rolls up to the car and we swap our 4 empty bins with 4 filled with our groceries. Don't you guys have this service?
As someone who HATES grocery shopping this is perfect for us. My wife does the ordering and I pick it up. The fee for this service runs from $1-3 depending on the pickup time you chose. We easily save that amount as it prevents impulse buying.

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Canadian Poncho wrote:
Most of the time we order our groceries online, set up a pickup time and park in designated areas. We have 4 bins the size of recycle bins that we purchased. We specify how many bins we have when we order and our groceries come in the same amount of bins. The employee rolls up to the car and we swap our 4 empty bins with 4 filled with our groceries. Don't you guys have this service?
As someone who HATES grocery shopping this is perfect for us. My wife does the ordering and I pick it up. The fee for this service runs from $1-3 depending on the pickup time you chose. We easily save that amount as it prevents impulse buying.

Never heard of it. You say the same size as recycle bins. Our recycle bins are on wheels, much larger than a garbage can. I hope you don't need 4 of them filled with groceries - and you'd never fit 4 of them in your car.

Recycle Bin.jpg

-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Sunday 15th of October 2023 11:47:19 AM

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

LOL! No, that's not what I mean. In Ontario we had small blue bins that you kept in the house and filled with newspapers etc and took them to the curb. Here in PEI we have what you have Clint.

Here's a grocery bin:

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

ARCADIAN wrote:
After 52 of marriage made a decision to send 100's of items to auction. Bank account now topped up by $1600.Will be doing it again in the spring!

I've auctioned off $27,000.00 (take home) in the last 3 years. It's my little tax-free hobby.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Pontiacanada wrote:
ARCADIAN wrote:
After 52 of marriage made a decision to send 100's of items to auction. Bank account now topped up by $1600.Will be doing it again in the spring!
I've auctioned off $27,000.00 (take home) in the last 3 years. It's my little tax-free hobby.

Are you using ebay?

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

When the parents were downsizing prior to going into assisted living, dad had amassed a huge amount of fishing tackle. He had brand new lures in the package from the 50's through 70's. We assumed it was just extra junk, but some guy from Toronto came out and bought the lures for $50 each!

Ashamed to admit it, but I have rescued car brochures from the garbage in the past and I still have them almost 50 years later. Dealer wall posters too!

oshawacliff · Poncho Master!

Here is my collection of grocery bins..... now empty

Four EMPTY grocery basket.jpg

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

So Cliff, that's where all the old Knob Hill Farms baskets went.

I used to have one by some means, but it accidentally went out with the recycling a few year's back.

oshawacliff · Poncho Master!

Yep, I have seen them on Ebay for $30.00 plus.

Wait till the Go Train comes to Oshawa at the site of the Knob Hills Grocery store. Pricing will likely rise.

On another subject, purging, I just posted an ad in Auto Trader for the Impala.

Opening line:

I am in the autumn off my years and after 44 years of ownership its time for a new owner

If your not into details go on to the next ad otherwise continue reading a fascinating 44 year history lesson on my cruiser

Wont need a trailer for this Canadian Classic cruiser. General Motors decided to celebrate Canada's 100^th birthday by producing one year only model line in the Impala.

Available as 2 door hardtop, 4 door sedan or a coupe with a convertible finishing out the line up. Engine options varied.

1968 was completely different body trim and panel

gparis7 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

When I worked and was raising a family I spent a lot of time gathering the cars and parts and tools that I wanted to own and work on in retirement. As a result I have a lot of stuff. As did my father who also had a lot of stuff that he never got to in his 98 years, and that I have become responsible for dealing with.

I find it ironic to have spent all these years preparing for my hobby, only to find that I now have to devote more time in divesting of much of this stuff. Otherwise my survivors will be left with my mess, much of which will likely go to a recycler or a dump somewhere, unless I purge it first.

Sad!

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I cleaned inside our "garden" shed today (which has a little bit of everything in it and a whole lot of worthless crap). Bunch of stuff went into the scrap metal pile. I plan to haul a scrap car soon and fill it up with a bunch of scrap metal. Some stuff went to the curb for free. A few items went on local Swap-N-Shop sites at fire sale prices. Our kids are dreading the idea of cleanup when I'm gone and it's time we grabbed the bull by the horns. I just had another birthday and that number keeps climbing. As it so happens, tomorrow at 5 PM I will have lived to exactly the age my brother did when he dropped dead from a heart attack, his second in 3 years. Sobering thought.

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Some of you young westerner fellas should buy this pile, one item I noticed is 1150 air filters.

www.hemmings.com/auction/9999-other-other-denver-co-877048

gtodrive · Guru

4SPEED427 wrote:
I cleaned inside our "garden" shed today (which has a little bit of everything in it and a whole lot of worthless crap). Bunch of stuff went into the scrap metal pile. I plan to haul a scrap car soon and fill it up with a bunch of scrap metal. Some stuff went to the curb for free. A few items went on local Swap-N-Shop sites at fire sale prices. Our kids are dreading the idea of cleanup when I'm gone and it's time we grabbed the bull by the horns. I just had another birthday and that number keeps climbing. As it so happens, tomorrow at 5 PM I will have lived to exactly the age my brother did when he dropped dead from a heart attack, his second in 3 years. Sobering thought.

It seems that there is an agreement here, that it is all just "stuff". This "stuff" has value only to the one who collected it, or to the one who sees the same value in it, as the collector did. Deal with the "stuff" while you still can. My father was a skilled O-gauge train hobbyist. He amassed a collection of over 500 items, including brass locomotives and various train cars and kits. When he retired he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and he lost the will, ambition and physical dexterity to create the train layout of his dreams. After he passed, my brother and I were left with the "collection". I told myself then, that I would never put the burden of dealing with my "stuff" on my wife or kids. In the end, we need to enjoy everyday for the gift that it is.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

gtodrive wrote:
4SPEED427 wrote:
I cleaned inside our "garden" shed today (which has a little bit of everything in it and a whole lot of worthless crap). Bunch of stuff went into the scrap metal pile. I plan to haul a scrap car soon and fill it up with a bunch of scrap metal. Some stuff went to the curb for free. A few items went on local Swap-N-Shop sites at fire sale prices. Our kids are dreading the idea of cleanup when I'm gone and it's time we grabbed the bull by the horns. I just had another birthday and that number keeps climbing. As it so happens, tomorrow at 5 PM I will have lived to exactly the age my brother did when he dropped dead from a heart attack, his second in 3 years. Sobering thought.
It seems that there is an agreement here, that it is all just "stuff". This "stuff" has value only to the one who collected it, or to the one who sees the same value in it, as the collector did. Deal with the "stuff" while you still can. My father was a skilled O-gauge train hobbyist. He amassed a collection of over 500 items, including brass locomotives and various train cars and kits. When he retired he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and he lost the will, ambition and physical dexterity to create the train layout of his dreams. After he passed, my brother and I were left with the "collection". I told myself then, that I would never put the burden of dealing with my "stuff" on my wife or kids. In the end, we need to enjoy everyday for the gift that it is.

Your last sentence is a perfect summary.