Moveing and estates

DeltaRed

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Seems that everytime I help someone move,of help 'clean' up an estate,I always leave with a pickup(or two) load of 'stuff'.anyone else have that 'problem'?LOL
 
Yes over the years, my parents sold a hardware store, then my dad's sawmill(remote location) then both grandparents farms and a lot of stuff ended up at my parents place. Soon a major cleaning out/auction is going to have to take place.
 
After wife and her sister and her hubby and I moved Mother in law, I called my Mother and told her she and Dad had to clean out the house and basement where they lived for 50+ years. She said "Nope, We're leaving it for you." And they did!!!!
So now, I'm leaving all my stuff for my kids. They keep threating to call the Pickers from TV.
 
I have to fight that same mindset of acquiring stuff when I take a load to the scrap yard.

Its bad when the scrap yard has got better "stuff" than you have at the house. LOL
 
Yes, After Marilyn's mother passed away Marilyn just couldn't let the stuff the rest of the family (14 brothers and sisters) didn't want, go to auction or the dumpster so guess where it sits now? I made shelves in the basement that hold 16 big Rubbermaid tubs that are probably 20 gallon size each. The tubs are full and will be there till we die, then our son gets the chance to carry all that stuff back up the steps and to the dumpster.
 
In cleaning out my MIL's estate I was lucky enough to get most of the machinery in the "tractor section" of the barn. Other inlaws took some stuff from the house. I wanted to throw most of the "junk" out but my SIL (who was executrix of the estate) jumped ugly with me about how I had no taste for valuable antiques. Paid appraisers came and looked at everything and politically correctly said most 'had no value' rather than use my term of "junk". Even what they thought might have value didn't sell. Loaded 2 large box trucks with bedding and cloths for Goodwill. Loaded 4 twenty yard dumpsters and one 15 yard with all the other 'antiques'. Since then I've become convinced that a person's life is measured in dumpsters in the end.
 
I helped clean out a good friends grandpa's estate. I borrow a dump truck and they rented a goodwill truck. Things worth having went in respective cars and pickups. Junk went in dump truck. Things worth donating clothes, bedding, furniture went in U-Haul.
 
When my in-laws moved to a nursing home we started moving "stuff" out to the alley where the trash is picked up. After a couple of days the pile of stuff stopped growing and started shrinking. People in the neighborhood recognized my BIL's car and knew that meant.
 
My wife and I inherited her Mom's house when she passed. Neither her nor her sister was ready to get or dispose of their Mom's stuff. I finally (very gently) talked them into letting me move it all to a shipping container I bought and set up on the property. Plan is for them to "go through" the belongings when time permits. Probably never happen. Best $2000 I ever spent. At least now I can rent the house.
 

I have been slowly but surely taking on a mindset of: "Hey! I haven'y had any use for that for the last 25 years, so it needs a new home. So it goes on Craig's list or some friend that I know would want it or to the transfer station.
 
Within the past two months I brought home an 18 foot box truck bed, and four loads on my 12" flatbed full of pipe fittings, tools, nails, shelving, parts bins, chains, electric motors, pumps, several brand new toilets, tanks, and seats, several new sinks, a shower stall, and anything else not wanted, or sold, from the basement of Dad's girlfriend's parents place. The man had been a plumber, well driller, and general handyman for a lot of years. He'd bought our a hardware store and had a basement FULL of stuff. I doubt I'll need to buy a pipe fitting for quite a while.

Also brought home a brand new rotisserie, a new smoker, quite a few antique tools, and a box or two of general 'junk' from a burned out house a customer was contracted to demolish.

Right now I'm actually turning down anymore stuff because my shop is FULL......now it's just a matter of organizing it all so I know where it's at when I need it.
 
You know when your house or shop are "Full" when you only have goat paths to manuver through.
 

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