Wife has gone mad

Ken · October 25, 2015, 02:54:01 PM

A couple weeks ago our daughters mentioned that we had accumulated too much stuff. Told my wife we looked like hoarders. She's been tossing and giving away stuff ever since. She seems to not understand that I might need that thingamajig some day. I'm scared I might be next. Gotta go here she comes

Magicman · October 25, 2015, 03:16:46 PM

Sometimes it is difficult for a wife to understand that there is a difference between your valuable stuff and her junk. ;D

sawguy21 · October 25, 2015, 03:24:22 PM

:D :D :D

clww · October 25, 2015, 06:35:44 PM

Same issue here: my wife is a hoarder, whereas I am a collector. ;)

POSTON WIDEHEAD · October 25, 2015, 06:36:04 PM

Quote from: Magicman on October 25, 2015, 03:16:46 PM
Sometimes it is difficult for a wife to understand that there is a difference between your valuable stuff and her junk. ;D

Julie just read your reply. :D :D :D

She still loves you though. :D :D :D :D :D :D

steamsawyer · October 25, 2015, 07:00:47 PM

My wife has the idea that "we can't throw that away I'll put it in a yard sale or put on Ebay." I don't have any junk, and I don't consider myself a collector. The way I see it, a collector usually buys and sells or trades to make a profit... I am more an accumulator. I'm just here to make a bigger pile.

Alan

Sixacresand · October 25, 2015, 07:45:14 PM

Less is best, so some say.

Woodhauler · October 25, 2015, 08:28:10 PM

My problem is I can't remember the price I payed for half the stuff I buy! Some stuff I sell and make a buck and some stuff not! ;D

samandothers · October 25, 2015, 08:39:18 PM

Quote from: clww on October 25, 2015, 06:35:44 PM
Same issue here: my wife is a hoarder, whereas I am a collector. ;)

:D :D

Stuart Caruk · October 25, 2015, 08:55:36 PM

Perhaps your wife is cleaning her nest in preparation for another arrival ;-)

Howdy · October 25, 2015, 10:18:36 PM

Between my sisters and mother Garage Sales were a constant event at one house or another. However each would "find" treasures at the other's sale and continually be buying each others junk. They would then put it up for sale the next time they had a sale for the others to "discover". Somehow they kept the sales going without accumulating much new stuff but it was amazing to see them never realize what they were doing.

Chuck White · October 25, 2015, 10:27:40 PM

When I was still in the Air Force, if I had stuff that hadn't been used in the past 6 months, it was either tossed or put in a yard sale.

Since I've retired and settled down, not so much! ;D :

maple flats · October 26, 2015, 08:56:45 AM

Does that mean you had to buy a new artificial Christmas tree and all the ornaments every year?
Me, if I think I'll find a use for it someday, I save it. However when we moved 3 yrs. ago, after 37 years in the same home, it took 4 (20yd) dumpster loads to get rid of stuff that the "someday" hadn't arrived yet. But worry not we've found lots more in 3 years. My biggest problem is knowing where I put it, then I go buy another, only to find the original a few days later.

tmarch · October 26, 2015, 09:59:09 AM

Quote from: maple flats on October 26, 2015, 08:56:45 AM
My biggest problem is knowing where I put it, then I go buy another.

Try finding it AFTER your better half cleans the garage or shop. >:(

woodmills1 · October 26, 2015, 07:30:22 PM

We don't hoard we inherited.

pigman · October 26, 2015, 09:23:58 PM

Quote from: Chuck White on October 25, 2015, 10:27:40 PM
When I was still in the Air Force, if I had stuff that hadn't been used in the past 6 months, it was either tossed or put in a yard sale.

I do the same except I use 30 years as the deciding factor.

trapper · October 26, 2015, 10:08:18 PM

Recently found a use for something my fil left when we moved in 20 years ago. Anyone have a use for A jar of 1inch steel balls? ;D Another treasure he left me.

justallan1 · October 26, 2015, 10:34:20 PM

The way I haul stuff home I've told my girlfriend that we need to have a yardsale and get rid of some of it. All she heard was the get rid of it part and gave away one of my cars

After the "conversation" that brought on she has never thought about giving away anything again. ;D

beenthere · October 27, 2015, 01:06:47 AM

We have to sign off on the car title here, so that prolly couldn't happen. ;D

SwampDonkey · October 27, 2015, 04:11:45 AM

Well we have a lot of 'stuff' here to. A lot you get when others pass on. And it does not sell for much either even if $1000's of dollars was paid for it and it's like new. We don't have much of a market in this region now like it was 30+ years ago. Those kinds of stores are all gone. These days all we have is junk stores and dollar stores. :

Roger2561 · October 27, 2015, 06:33:26 AM

My younger brother and I are going through a lot of stuff that belonged to my late dad. He died nearly 10 years ago but due to the lack of time, we never had time to thoroughly go through everything. Well, it has been interesting to say the least. We have found a bag full of receipts for items purchased in '72 to present day. The stuff that he had stored/stashed in the barn was amazing. We took a number pickup truck loads of stuff to our transfer station to be recycle. It's gotten to the point where the attendants know us by name now. We found one receipt when one of my older sisters spent a couple of weeks in the hospital due to meningitis in the 1950's. The insurance company paid the entire bill; $250.00. And that was with 4 days in the ICU. My brother and I wondered why someone would hang onto everything, never toss anything out. The only reasonable answer we could come up with is he lived through the great depression in the 30's where no one tossed anything even if it seemed worthless and he kept that mindset with him through his years until he died. Roger

Raider Bill · October 27, 2015, 08:09:21 AM

Quote from: Roger2561 on October 27, 2015, 06:33:26 AM
My younger brother and I are going through a lot of stuff that belonged to my late dad. He died nearly 10 years ago but due to the lack of time, we never had time to thoroughly go through everything. Well, it has been interesting to say the least. We have found a bag full of receipts for items purchased in '72 to present day. The stuff that he had stored/stashed in the barn was amazing. We took a number pickup truck loads of stuff to our transfer station to be recycle. It's gotten to the point where the attendants know us by name now. We found one receipt when one of my older sisters spent a couple of weeks in the hospital due to meningitis in the 1950's. The insurance company paid the entire bill; $250.00. And that was with 4 days in the ICU. My brother and I wondered why someone would hang onto everything, never toss anything out. The only reasonable answer we could come up with is he lived through the great depression in the 30's where no one tossed anything even if it seemed worthless and he kept that mindset with him through his years until he died. Roger

My Dad was the same way. Boxex and boxes of paperwork. Reciepts for just about anything over .50 Every cancelled check he wrote since 1950.

Grizzly · October 27, 2015, 10:02:09 AM

Quote from: Ken on October 25, 2015, 02:54:01 PM
I'm scared I might be next. Gotta go here she comes

:D :D Yep, I've had that feeling........but then she remembers my paycheque. Well, and the years we've spent knowing each other, and all our children, and all the memories, and well..................... I guess I'll be here a while. But none of my good t-shirts!!

Hilltop366 · October 27, 2015, 12:00:54 PM

I keep worn out jeans on hangers in my half of the closet just to hold my spot until I need it knowing full well that if I remove them I will lose the space. ;D

Magicman · October 27, 2015, 02:07:26 PM

Reminds me of the guy that called home and told his wife to pack her bags because he had won the lottery. She asked whether to pack for warm or cold weather? He replied that she should pack everything that she had because he wanted her gone before he got home!

Now that ain't nice at all. :-\