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<blockquote data-quote="Elsi" data-source="post: 745030" data-attributes="member: 23349"><p>Stella is gorgeous! </p><p></p><p>I’m in on the decluttering. My goal for 2019 is to get back to Flylady daily basics and do one ‘extra’ decluttering chore each week. </p><p></p><p>But here is my biggest question in my mind: <strong>what do I do with my basement room full of still I’ve saved for the kids?</strong> Is it time to let this go? It’s a whole room, and I know R would love to turn it into a weight room or a workshop. A bed frame and mattress, dressers, a little kitchen table and chairs, boxes of dishes and kitchen stuff, linens, etc. ... all things I’ve saved from when mom downsized/grandparents passed on/R and I combined houses with the thought that S or C would need these things one day. But this stuff has been down there taking up space since we moved into this house three years ago, and I know R is frustrated. In all that time neither of them have made any progress towards moving beyond their semi-homeless, couch surfing existence and finding a stable place where they actually need furniture and dishes. Getting rid of it feels like giving up hope that they ever will. I don’t want to just move it all to some storage place where I may end up paying for another three years or a decade. How long do I hold on to this stuff - and the associated dreams?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsi, post: 745030, member: 23349"] Stella is gorgeous! I’m in on the decluttering. My goal for 2019 is to get back to Flylady daily basics and do one ‘extra’ decluttering chore each week. But here is my biggest question in my mind: [B]what do I do with my basement room full of still I’ve saved for the kids?[/B] Is it time to let this go? It’s a whole room, and I know R would love to turn it into a weight room or a workshop. A bed frame and mattress, dressers, a little kitchen table and chairs, boxes of dishes and kitchen stuff, linens, etc. ... all things I’ve saved from when mom downsized/grandparents passed on/R and I combined houses with the thought that S or C would need these things one day. But this stuff has been down there taking up space since we moved into this house three years ago, and I know R is frustrated. In all that time neither of them have made any progress towards moving beyond their semi-homeless, couch surfing existence and finding a stable place where they actually need furniture and dishes. Getting rid of it feels like giving up hope that they ever will. I don’t want to just move it all to some storage place where I may end up paying for another three years or a decade. How long do I hold on to this stuff - and the associated dreams? [/QUOTE]
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