When adult children leave home ....

arnie&caseysma!

I left Dads at 15 to move to Mums, then left Mums at 17 to move to my own place. Due to the circumstances (you don't wanna know!!!) I took everylast little item with me (and more if I could get away with it!!!). I have managed to get rid of all the crap at car boot sales but have soon learned to realise that the more space you have the more you need - for all the crap you gather up! I trid to decant some of it to Dads garage for a while but he managed to return it after just 6 months!

My little sister left home on very bad terms (not quite thrown out but it was coming!) and we cleared her room of all the rubbish then bagged everything and left it at the end of the driveway. If it hadn't been collected by bin day it would have been long gone!

My other sister left home before me and somehow everytime Dad does a room out he finds more and more of her stuff! Not sure if she is sneaking it back for storage or has never moved it in the first place.......

......I'm sooooo glad I'm not intending on having kids - will keep the 2 dogs and occasional visits from DSD for now than you very much!!!!

LeanneF

Very shortly after I left home (age about 23) and moved to London my Mum packed all my stuff up, hired a man with a van and sent it all down to me. She called the day before to let us know was she was doing! My parent's were looking to down-size (which they did) and wanted rid of as much stuff as possible. My folks have never, ever made an empty threat and she'd have dumped the lot if I hadn't taken it.

I can remember the colour draining from my boyfriend's face as box after box after box was delivered to our flat. He still tells the story in the pub now but on each telling there are more boxes than last time.

ALWAYS_POOR

My mum kept all my surplus stuff until she moved house then I had it all given back to me, it fills my loft now.

At the moment I'm willing to keep what my daughters don't want to take (within reason - the cat has to go with them) but I'm still very new to this. Who knows how I'll feel in the future.

Youngest daughter just moved out, within a week I'd set up the ironing board in her room . . . But I can't see a time when it won't be 'her room'.

itsmylife_2

My mum waited until i was going throught my nesting phase of pregnancy until she asked me to clear out my bedroom... was a good idea as the bedroom is now gleaming! Plus I took all my cuddly toys that I loved for the new baby and was willing to let the rest go to Charity shops.

Bargain_Rzl

I got an email from my mum the other day saying "Wouldn't now be a good time for me to get rid of your dolls' house?" ... This has been a bone of contention for years ... It's a hand made wooden dolls' house built by my dad about 23 years ago ... Good solid construction ... She has room for it, I don't ... But I'm about to move into a 1 bedroom flat (again with NO storage) and she'll have an "empty nest" very shortly and wants to downsize ... I left home permanently over 7 years ago, and this is the only thing I'll really be sorry to see the back of

System

When my kids left home their brothers and sisters had more space so we re organised the bedrooms and what the older kids didnt take got binned after 6 months.

northern_star

Difficult one but I guess it depends on how much room you've got. My 2 eldest have both left home and with the exception of a box of lego and their shared mega-drive + games there's nothing left here - they have more 'available space' in their homes than I do!
DD is planning to move out after Christmas to 'caretake' her older brothers house while he goes to work abroad and I'm under strict instructions not to redecorate her room (it's ghastly pink n purple n girlie - now why would I want to do that :rolleyes: ?) but I'm under pressure from my youngest (14) to move into said DD's room as it's much bigger than his.
When my brother and I left home we took our belongings with us (didn't have so much in those days) but we still regarded our rooms at mum and dads as 'ours' but then we had no younger siblings desperate for the space!