Advice: Don't be like me...

[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.

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!



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?

[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 !!!