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4 Aug
3:57pm, 4 Aug 2024
56,579 posts
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EvilPixie
We grow into the space we have
As adults a bigger house is seen as success
As such we then fill said house with crap!
Add the other things like (using my parents as examples) two independent households coming together and you end up with duplicate shit!
Then add hoarding tendencies (my mum!) and ….. they have a 4 bed house the size of a 5 bed with (now) just mum but no free space!
It’s that thought that keeps us from filling too much space although we still have plenty!
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4 Aug
3:58pm, 4 Aug 2024
56,580 posts
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EvilPixie
Just back from a run
In a couple of weeks I can claim my tax back. This will then be new trainers and race entries I think! Just need to find a race to inspire me
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4 Aug
4:07pm, 4 Aug 2024
17,578 posts
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jda
A lot of our identities and memories are bound up in objects. Regrettably 
Emigrating to Japan, and even more so retuning more than a decade later, helped to slow the growth of clutter for us. Gave us a good impetus for filtering our possessions.
We’ve still managed to fill an over-large house with an unlimited volume of inherited stuff undoubtedly coming our way over the next years or decade. I’m vaguely thinking of downsizing but realistically that’s probably some way off.
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4 Aug
4:09pm, 4 Aug 2024
43,699 posts
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Ness
Tax refunds are great for that. I felt it was like found money, even though it was essentially being given back my own money! 🤪😂 Last time I got a tax refund I used it to buy a new Garmin!
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4 Aug
4:22pm, 4 Aug 2024
152,836 posts
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GregP
It’s a variation on Parkinson’s Law I think.
If I go out the amount of stuff I absolutely need varies depending on the number of pockets and the size of the bag I have with me.
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4 Aug
4:23pm, 4 Aug 2024
152,837 posts
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GregP
Compare and contrast with the 06:00 news on Radio 4. Exactly six minutes’ worth of stuff has happened overnight. Always.
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4 Aug
5:11pm, 4 Aug 2024
37,244 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
I’m at the stage where I don’t worry about work anymore. No taking on projects no additional work. Do my thing go home.
TRO did you downsize when you moved or just crosstransfered
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4 Aug
11:26pm, 4 Aug 2024
23,633 posts
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geordiegirl
And despite trying to check in on line for tomorrow mornings flight and still no luck I think it’s a sign - I’m not stressing like I would have been a few months ago I think that tells me a lot.
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5 Aug
8:53am, 5 Aug 2024
4,449 posts
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Bob!
Is it under 24 hours to the flight gg?
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5 Aug
10:38am, 5 Aug 2024
6,316 posts
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TheScribbler
I’m interested in the decluttering, after spending the weekend helping my in- laws try to clear out and reorganise their spare room. It was exhausting!
They are only a step or two away from being hoarders, and Mr S has similar tendencies. His mum is lovely, but very sentimental and there was stuff all mixed up in drawers and other places, from junk and broken things, to stuff she wants to keep - like cards from her friends and dog tags from much loved pets. Plus what seemed like a tonne of wool that I sorted, then found another cupboard full, that I just shut the door on. And 50 pairs of shoes! We did whittle those down a bit. Apparently there are 2 hoovers in the attic.
But then I look around our place, and you could argue it’s very similar. I have shelves full of books. A box full of run medals and almost every T-shirt from every race I’ve done (10 x Blaydon, 10 x Great North Run).
We won’t have anyone to help us clear out, move furniture and sort through all this when we get older, so I feel like I should start to make a plan.
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Jigs