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seven-day-weekend

Just throw stuff away when he is not looking. He will never miss it.

pollypenny

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Just throw stuff away when he is not looking. He will never miss it.

Trouble is when DHs are also retired it's hard to find a chance for a good clear out!

Off to Florida for Christmas with DS next week. Feels very odd and I will miss
bands playing carols and all the traditional things.

DD is not coming, so will miss her, too.

Newly_retired

Just throw stuff away when he is not looking. He will never miss it.

You don't know my DH!

seven-day-weekend

My friend was moving from a huge house with about ten bedrooms where she had lived for about 25 years to a small terraced house.

She knew she had to throw things away, but couldn't.

What she did was, she went out for the day and asked her daughter to do it, because she knew her daughter would throw EVERYTHING away.

From that day to this (at least ten years ago ) she doesn't know most of what her daughter threw away. So she obviously doesn't miss it.

DiggerUK

This is how we get rid of the others junk at Digger Mansions without a diplomatic incident.
1. Identify the junk.
2. Move it to were it can't be seen.
3. After a suitable interval, chuck it.
4. If at some point in the future one is confronted, just respond with a puzzled expression and say "no, I haven't seen it for ages, wasn't it at the back of the cupboard."
Plausible deniability, don't you just love it.

seven-day-weekend

My husband said something similar.

Just throw it away. When (probably months or years later) the other one says 'didn't we used to have a so-and-so?' just look puzzled and say 'yes, I think we did, haven't seen it for ages' and then everyone will forget about it.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Newly_retired

Well we have made a lot of progress in 3 days. The house is now clean. DH has taken a car load to the hospice warehouse. The recycling bins were full to the brim and were emptied Thursday. Rubbish bin is full. Bags await further trips to charity shops. The spare room is habitable again. But it is all still a drop in the ocean!
Between us we have about 2000+ books and endless papers ( retired teachers). DH has a garage full of gardening and woodworking stuff, a basement full of goodness knows what, and one of the kids' rooms he commandered when she left home is full of his eccentric hobbies and collections. We each have our own studies with far too much stuff - working on that, but I think now that we have done the major clear up I'd better concentrate on the list of jobs I've put on one side for a while.

seven-day-weekend

Newly_retired wrote: »

.......and endless papers ( retired teachers). .....

They were the FIRST things my husband threw away when he retired from teaching!

Savvy_Sue

Newly_retired wrote: »

Just throw stuff away when he is not looking. He will never miss it.

You don't know my DH!

I was at mum's house the other day, she was looking for photos. On a high and very inaccessible shelf was a box which she thought looked like a box of photos, but no, it was the end bits of card and some binding materials from his bookbinding days, long since gone.

However on top of it was another cardboard box, about 4" cubed. Sticking out of a hole in the top was the business end of a seriously chunky screw. "What's this?" I asked. "A gramophone motor. Dad didn't want me to throw it away."

I'd ask what he was keeping it for, but he's in hospital and not really answering us any more. Which is a shame, because now we'll never know why HIS father is wearing a kilt in one of those old photos.

seven-day-weekend

Hope all is well for your dad, Sue.