Advice: Don't be like me...

[Martinjmpr]

Well, wife and I finally made the big move: We no longer live in the Denver area. We closed on our new house in SW Pueblo (I think the area is called Regency) and we really love it. Great neighborhood, house overlooks open space and I can see Pike's Peak from my office window.

BUT - we did a dumb thing that I'll bet a lot of us do.

TOO. MUCH. STUFF.

And the really dumb part is that when we got into the frenzy of packing to go, we didn't have the time to really look through our stuff and decide what to keep and what to get rid of - so by default we kept it all. Moving was a bit of an ordeal but the worst is that we paid to move stuff down here and NOW we're getting rid of it, which is bass-ackwards from what we should have done.

Anyway, this is just a PSA to those who might be considering a move in the next few years. Get rid of your excess stuff NOW so you don't pay someone to move it, only to get rid of it later.

[Great-Kazoo]

we started selling and giving away stuff about 3-4 months before we were moving. Even now 5 yrs later there's still unopened boxes in one of the outbuildings.

[BPTactical]

We lived in our house in Northglenn for 34 years, raised both our kids in that house.
When we moved I knew I would have stuff that would need to go direct to the trash so I rented a 30 yard roll off from the city.
Figured I’d maybe fill it halfway at best.
WRONG!
I filled that damn thing with 34 years of “I forgot we had that!”

[.455_Hunter]

I hope your Pueblo experience goes well and you are in a good area for shopping, services and appointments. My exposure to the city, based on various baseball tournaments, visits to the State Fair, stops at c-stores on the I-25 corridor, etc, has not been positive.

[JoeRoss]

TOO. MUCH. STUFF?? GUILTY.

Spent 5 years selling off STUFF, 13 trailers and an extra house full of stuff.

Getting ready to move we had a yard sale...every day for over a MONTH, sold a TON of stuff. Then found someone who bought the rest of the yard sale. Took him 7 pickup loads to haul it all off.

Moved, thankfully it was only into the house next door.

Was still going through stuff and took pickup loads to donate to ARC.

Sorted out more stuff for another yard sale, then Covid hit. No yard sale.

With a LOT of ads on Craig's list, giving away a bunch at the end of the driveway, and some more loads to ARC we are finally seeing the list of stuff to get rid of getting smaller.

If you have not used it (or even seen it) in 5 years, you don't need it. Get rid of it.

[kwando]

It’s so easy to keep useless shit, for when you need it. But the saying is true about having a HUGE garage sale every 2-3 years. Doesn’t help when you have kids also. I find myself throwing so much shit away.

[Martinjmpr]

I hope your Pueblo experience goes well and you are in a good area for shopping, services and appointments. My exposure to the city, based on various baseball tournaments, visits to the State Fair, stops at c-stores on the I-25 corridor, etc, has not been positive.

There's your issue.

I think most people's impression of Pueblo likely comes from going downtown or driving through on the highway.

As far as "downtown" goes, have you been through Denver lately?

As for the rest, they usually don't route the interstate through the nice part of town. ;)


Here's the view from our back patio last night:

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[GilpinGuy]

Rule of thumb: If you didn't touch it in a year, sell it, donate it or toss it. This works very well for me. My wife...not so much. (Of course this does not apply to firearms.)

[BushMasterBoy]

Nice view. I used to have the same view. Then they put up another house & a convenience store.

Joe Biden will be in town Wednesday. Expect traffic delays on the east side (airport). He is touring the CS Wind plant east of the interstate.

If they go all solar/wind and close down Comanche power plant, I recommend getting a wood stove. Colorado Biochar sells great wood for 20 cents a pound. Good luck with the new house!

[.455_Hunter]

There's your issue.

I think most people's impression of Pueblo likely comes from going downtown or driving through on the highway.

As far as "downtown" goes, have you been through Denver lately?

As for the rest, they usually don't route the interstate through the nice part of town. ;)


Here's the view from our back patio last night:

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Yes- it looks very nice, and I am sure a serious upgrade over inside the Denver Metro beltway. My only concern is when you have to go to town to access essential services. Pueblo seems to top many of the Meteo area locations with regards to specialness in that regard.

[BushMasterBoy]

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/search-warrant-results-large-bust-pueblo/

[rondog]

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/search-warrant-results-large-bust-pueblo/

This.....

[MarkCO]

We (I) have been trying to destuff for a while now. Good advice. The wife is much more reluctant. Her books could literally fill a few rooms.

[Martinjmpr]

We (I) have been trying to destuff for a while now. Good advice. The wife is much more reluctant. Her books could literally fill a few rooms.

Ugh, Books are the worst. I know, I was a book hoarder for a long time. At one time I probably had 8 - 10 bookcases full of books. But after moving boxes of books from house to house I finally said "Why am I doing this?" I then separated my books into those (very few) that have some special sentimental value to me (keep), those that I use and would be almost impossible to find in a library (keep) and those that, if I wanted to, I could get in a library or bookstore (get rid of) which is by far most of them.

[Alpha2]

we started selling and giving away stuff about 3-4 months before we were moving. Even now 5 yrs later there's still unopened boxes in one of the outbuildings.

To be fair, Kazoo...you had a LOT of stuff!

[Alpha2]

Rule of thumb: If you didn't touch it in a year, sell it, donate it or toss it. This works very well for me. My wife...not so much. (Of course this does not apply to firearms.)

Ah, yes! The "firearm" exemption!

[Great-Kazoo]

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/search-warrant-results-large-bust-pueblo/



You will not see as much reporting in the denver area. AS the media and politicians don't want to admit there is a problem. Not sure how long anyone has lived in CO, if it's been a while. You should remember when Webb and the denver police chief said, Denver Doesn't have a Gang Problem. Which were the headlines in both the RMN and DP. Nope, nothing here to see.


Buy ignoring it the problem goes away, as one can witness by no more gang problems, or homeless, assaults on the 16th st mall, zero, zip, nada. :)

[rondog]

Talking about books - my stepson's mother-in-law collects cookbooks. We've been to their house, the garage is FULL of boxes of cookbooks!

[mb504]

Talking about books - my stepson's mother-in-law collects cookbooks. We've been to their house, the garage is FULL of boxes of cookbooks!

Seems sort of pointless to not use them!

[TFOGGER]

I'm guilty: I have stuff that literally was packed up in 1989 when I moved from Savannah to Colorado Springs that has been moved 3 times since without being unpacked. "But I might need it some day!!!"...as if I have needed most of i9t at any time in the last 35 years...[ROFL2]

[Doc45]

My mother passed in ‘08, she was in the home we moved into in Arizona in 1968, dad passed in ‘92. I promised my sons I wouldn’t put them through what my brother, sister and I did with mom’s home. I have been reducing my stuff over the past 10 years a little at a time.

Some cool things we did come across in mom’s home were the letters they exchanged while my dad was in Europe during WWII-Ardennes, Normandy and Rhineland with a few other interesting places as well as some letters they exchanged after getting married while my mom was visiting her sister in Tucson and my dad was at home back east.

[brutal]

To be fair, Kazoo...you had a LOT of stuff!

Wonder if he ever found his leg.

[Great-Kazoo]

Wonder if he ever found his leg.


Not yet. still stumped where it went.

[buffalobo]

Go GK.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231129/93b6d3745cd4a51b2843412dd59dc289.jpg

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[copfish]

I've gone through boxes of stuff, some from my time in the Army (late 70's) and burned a few barrels full of paper. Books, manuals and other raggedy stuff. Still have stuff from the cop years, old traffic, academy, firearms, investigations manuals and stuff. Boxes of holsters and gear, magazines (paper and metal) that I need to sort through. Sheesh, might have to get a table at the flea market come spring.

[Martinjmpr]

Best thing about the new house: I can finally park my truck in the garage!

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Well, as soon as I get rid of all my excess crap, that is (that photo was from before we moved in. Now that part of the garage is filled with stuff.)

But hey, it's an incentive, right? [LOL]

[Bailey Guns]

I want to get rid of lots of stuff. Wife isn't really down with that. Apparently we're just gonna keep building additional structures to house it all until we die.

[StagLefty]

Been working at getting rid of stuff for the last couple of years,looks like the move is finally getting close,my son closes on a house in Maine this week.

[theGinsue]

Been working at getting rid of stuff for the last couple of years,looks like the move is finally getting close,my son closes on a house in Maine this week.

Maine: Beautiful state from mid-May through October, nasty cold the rest of the year. Just read a headline yesterday that Maine has exorbitant energy costs (let's go Brandon).

[StagLefty]

Maine: Beautiful state from mid-May through October, nasty cold the rest of the year. Just read a headline yesterday that Maine has exorbitant energy costs (let's go Brandon).

I'm going full life cycle I was born there and returning there. My son texted me before I read your post and he just had the oil tank filled for $415 !!!

[ray1970]

I want to get rid of lots of stuff. Wife isn't really down with that. Apparently we're just gonna keep building additional structures to house it all until we die.

Sounds like my life. I don?t have a problem getting rid of stuff but my wife is a borderline hoarder. She has a recent infatuation with tiny living and downsizing but she just lives that fantasy through others because there?s no way in hell she could get rid of enough stuff to live tiny.

[Erni]

I worked on getting rid of stuff last year when we thought we would move. Got rid of stuff. And some of it just got kept for no reason. But somehow I can?t get rid of any tools I bought. 3.5? framing air gun. Paint sprayer I used once. Etc. the transition jack came in handy though after 3 years of storage. So go figure. And my gun stuff. I leap meaning to purge but every time I look in the safe it all goes back.
I think the urge to purge is an older guy thing.

[ray1970]

If anyone here is getting up there in years, please start getting rid of stuff you don?t need. Don?t leave your loved ones the task of having to declutter your life after you?ve gone. They?ll have enough to deal with and burdening them with going through a lifetime of stuff is just crap they don?t need to deal with.

[BPTactical]

Meh, Great Kazoo always comes up a foot short.....

[eddiememphis]

If anyone here is getting up there in years, please start getting rid of stuff you don?t need. Don?t leave your loved ones the task of having to declutter your life after you?ve gone. They?ll have enough to deal with and burdening them with going through a lifetime of stuff is just crap they don?t need to deal with.

When Grandpa died in 2001, Dad's two sisters decided they were going to clean out his house. After two days of them sitting around, reminiscing about every object in every box, Dad got pissed told them to knock it off. He hired a guy and his wife who did exactly that sort of thing. They got rid of everything and in a week handed the three kids equal piles of money.

Those two weepy old broads would still be over there, sifting through everything.

[Erni]

Meh, Great Kazoo always comes up a foot short.....

That is a slanted comment.

[StagLefty]

If anyone here is getting up there in years, please start getting rid of stuff you don?t need. Don?t leave your loved ones the task of having to declutter your life after you?ve gone. They?ll have enough to deal with and burdening them with going through a lifetime of stuff is just crap they don?t need to deal with.

been doing exactly that with my son in mind

[Great-Kazoo]

That is a slanted comment.

More like off balance.











HELP I'M BEING REPRESSED!

[Great-Kazoo]

If anyone here is getting up there in years, please start getting rid of stuff you don?t need. Don?t leave your loved ones the task of having to declutter your life after you?ve gone. They?ll have enough to deal with and burdening them with going through a lifetime of stuff is just crap they don?t need to deal with.

We downsized. Now with all the deals i've run in to out here. I have more than when living in CO.

Probably thet FTF firearm transactions and estate sales have something to do with it.

[beast556]

We downsized. Now with all the deals i've run in to out here. I have more than when living in CO.

Probably thet FTF firearm transactions and estate sales have something to do with it.

Can't let those outbuildings sit vacant.

[brutal]

When you all sell your guns for pennies on the dollar, let me know. I've got a few years left.

[Bailey Guns]

We downsized. Now with all the deals i've run in to out here. I have more than when living in CO.

Probably thet FTF firearm transactions and estate sales have something to do with it.

Yeah, but... Gun stuff and tools don't count. That's important stuff. Gotta keep all of that.

[Sawin]

Reloading components don’t count either. But I do understand in principle. I have a couple tennis rackets I haven’t played with since college so they’re going in the garage sale pile.