("My folks lived way below their means and still had tons of stuff"...JCQUILTS)

We folks get our "stuff" for Birthdays, Mother's day, Father's day, Christmas, etc. from our Kids! :-)

Me too! And I love George Carlin's quote and his monologue on 'stuff'....just too funny.

Blessings,
MaryAnna

Ditto! I just came home from 100 mile garage sale with my 2 sisters

Me too, and trying to get myself together and have a garage sale and get rid of it and if I don't see it the rest will go to goodwill or to someone who will come pick it all up!

That is my absolute greatest fear is to leave a mess to my family when I'm gone. Many years ago, could have been fifteen or twenty we bought an eight by ten shed that my brother put together for us. I took two weeks off of work and put all the time into getting organized and making the best use of the shed. When I was done and everything was clutter free and in it's place there were two wonderful things that happened. One, I could suddenly walk on air, I felt as if I was floating, their was no clutter to weigh me down. Life was so sweet for a couple of months while I was able to keep the house tidy. The second thing that happened was that if the Good Lord took me I was ready. I could die in peace knowing that no one would have to clean up after me.

For about 7 years one of my aunts gave me sets of fake nails for by birthday and Christmas. I have never been one to wear nails. In fact, I couldn't even think of a single person I could "re-gift" them to.

One of the sad realizations I have come to is that my children do not value or want all the stuff we have inherited from parents. I am going to start gathering it all up so I can take pictures and let them choose waht they do want. The rest I will put on Craigslist or take to Goodwill. It's hard, but we also had to clean out my hubby's mom's apartment, and I don't want to put my kids thru that. We still have a bunch of the stuff we brought home 2 years ago still in the boxes. Haven't had the energy to go thru it yet.

I'm chiming in again. My 3 sons have all told us what they care about and what they don't want. I'm glad I asked them b/c I was "assuming" they'd want more. All 3 are minimalistic but sentimental and want family treasures. It's making my de-stashing a lot easier.
One day my husband and I looked around our family room and honestly there were only a few things we really wanted in that room.
It's amazing when you look around. We both loved collecting stuff, mostly antiques and collectibles. But enough is enough.

Same here, have lots of craft stuff I want to keep incase I ever manage to get to it....but finally realized I have to pick one or two crafts and get rid of the other stuff as it is taking over all our living space!! So...I took some to the local senior center and took another load (card making supplies) to the childrens ministry at church (I called first to make sure thaey wanted it). I decided to keep all sewing/material/quilting stuff and crocheting. It actually feels good knowing the senior center ladies are happy and will make good use of the things I gave them and so will the little kids at church.

I hear ya on this. My kids are pretty much in the same boat. I've been to (drop off) at goodwill lately myself and have my mothers stuff I'm dealing with. I just can't keep it all. Have to part with stuff and let it go. It's a slow process but I do feel better when I make some headway.