moving

[yzma02]

Well folks, in the interest of saving space in my car, which by this point I am extremely worried about, I've decided to give away a bunch of shirts I've had since I was in junior high and high school, including, but not limited to, shirts from working at the Windsor Branch of the Ft. Smith Public Library, NHS Street Jam, prom, the class shirt for

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[shadow_andaus]

If there is still space in your parent's shed then you could still keep them.

You could visit a homeless village in the woods of Fayetteville and give a bunch a shirts away and then run away real quickly.

Salvation Army likes shit. I think you get tax breaks too if you give them enough stuff.

[yzma02]

My parents' shed is already over halfway full with my stuff, and I feel like I'm abusing their offer of space--and my dad is paying for my books to be shipped (tax write-off), so I feel like asking any more would be too much.

In the past I've donated lots of things to the Salvation Army, but I always do it in spurts, and here in Bentonville their donation spot is a locked drop-off box, so I'm not sure how calculating my items' worth would work into the equation--I'm not about getting money anyway, because most of the things I donate are things I don't want or can't use, and I've just been too much of a pack rat to let them go before.

[laozi]

I don't understand how some people can pack all of their belongings into two large suitcases and move across the country by plane. I do get how that can be good for someone, but it would cost SO much (money that I don't have?) to have to buy all of the things to replace the stuff that you used to have handy.

LOL! I make it work by never owning a bunch of stuff in the first place (no need to replace what you don't have).

I already knew that you're a sentimental person, but I still get a kick out of your packrat nature. :-)

"Flaccid" is a dirty word.

[yzma02]

I would think though, that most of the stuff I own, many people own -- or aquire once they've been staying in an apartment (kitchen-wares, specifically). I think it's more that I'm a pack rat--I should never have had those shirts from high school -- I graduated 6 years ago, for God's sake! But also, I think I have, maybe, more things than some people -- or more travel-handy if it was a laptop instead of a monitor, huge tower, and huge subwoofer -- however, I don't like laptops, and I don't know who I would see/pay to get my tower converted to a smaller one or to get rid of only my subwoofer instead of my whole speaker set. Also, my wardrobe is huge b/c I always have my clothes for the whole year -- I don't have some things in storage that I get out later, and my stock of clothing has grown quite a bit this year as I've added more and more professional outfits for the purposes of schooling or have had to buy bigger clothes because of the spreading phenomenon affecting my thighs and hips. I imagine that many people's clothes take up

[shadow_andaus]

*remembers huge shelf of shit you hadn't needed for years including a plastic blue treasure chest in which were TEETH*

This was during the only night I spent at your parent's house...back in '97/'98.

[laozi]

Yeah, that was my mom's doing. She still has all that stuff! She has saved pretty much every single thing that I ever touched from the day that I was born. When I was a kid, I used to beg her to let me throw a bunch of my crap away, and she would never let me. Once, when I was in junior high, she became furious with me after I had thrown away a bunch of my homework papers from the previous school year without asking her first. When I moved out for college, I just let her keep all of that, since it mattered so much more to her than to me...