IAG
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major anxiety/panic attacks over the fact I just brought a ton of my stuff back from my Denver townhome. Now I have two households that have no common thread at all , and I can't bring myself to totally disassemble mom's house while she is still alive...more for my siblings than for her...she doesn't know where she is most of the time.
But all this STUFF is really stressing me out. I pick up each item, and can't tell if it's some valuable trinket or a piece of garbage. I have all this antique jewelry that may be worth something, or it may be worth nothing. So I can't bring myself to do anything with it.
Even the (what I consider) ugly furniture downstairs I am now told is "atomic" which is very in and could be valuable. So I just keep adding more stuff to the stuff I can't bring myself to get rid of. I'm fucked. I hate clutter. I hate a hodgepodge of home dcor.
My brother's wedding pictures are hanging in the room I now sleep in (which used to be my mom and dad's room...they have been there forever...so are my brother's graduation pictures. Now if I were in my OWN home, I wouldn't have my siblings wedding pictures hanging in my bedroom...but I feel weird moving them.
I don't know what I expect all of you to do about this, but I needed to vent as this is really fucking with me. I know the minute I decide to just trash everything, someone will ask what I did with such and such and say they really wanted that. Yeah..fucked.
And there is stuff that I know is valuable, but no one will want. And I have no idea what to do with it. I'm not inclined to sell it all online as I have no idea how much to ask. Non cash donations over $500-5000 are a PITA to donate for the write off...
Way too much stuff in this world. I really am thinking of becoming an honest to God minimalist when this is all over.
But all this STUFF is really stressing me out. I pick up each item, and can't tell if it's some valuable trinket or a piece of garbage. I have all this antique jewelry that may be worth something, or it may be worth nothing. So I can't bring myself to do anything with it.
Even the (what I consider) ugly furniture downstairs I am now told is "atomic" which is very in and could be valuable. So I just keep adding more stuff to the stuff I can't bring myself to get rid of. I'm fucked. I hate clutter. I hate a hodgepodge of home dcor.
My brother's wedding pictures are hanging in the room I now sleep in (which used to be my mom and dad's room...they have been there forever...so are my brother's graduation pictures. Now if I were in my OWN home, I wouldn't have my siblings wedding pictures hanging in my bedroom...but I feel weird moving them.
I don't know what I expect all of you to do about this, but I needed to vent as this is really fucking with me. I know the minute I decide to just trash everything, someone will ask what I did with such and such and say they really wanted that. Yeah..fucked.
And there is stuff that I know is valuable, but no one will want. And I have no idea what to do with it. I'm not inclined to sell it all online as I have no idea how much to ask. Non cash donations over $500-5000 are a PITA to donate for the write off...
Way too much stuff in this world. I really am thinking of becoming an honest to God minimalist when this is all over.