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The pain only comes twice, really. 1. The couple of weeks before you make your move, where you sort what you need and what you don't need, so you can get rid o
by mattlutze 12y ago
The pain only comes twice, really.
1. The couple of weeks before you make your move, where you sort what you need and what you don't need, so you can get rid of the latter.
2. A few weeks/months after you move, when you realize you only use 25% of what you kept and purge once again.
After that, it's really quite pleasant. The biggest change is spending more time out of the house in public spaces, since you no longer have the space to maintain separated individual little worlds in your home.
- wffurr 12y ago"Purging" stuff is a pain in the ass. How do you responsibly and efficiently get rid of your crap? My living room is a quarter full of shipping supplies for selling my things on eBay, and I am getting sick of it. It's not even that I want the money, but that I don't want to just toss things in the landfill.
- tormeh 12y agoDepending on where you live, you can put it in the street and people who want it can pick it up. Come back the next day or two and throw the remainder in the garbage.
- dagw 12y agoCome back the next day or two and throw the remainder in the garbage. How do you fit furniture into a garbage chute?
- tormeh 12y agoWhy would you want to do that? Aren't there garbage containers where you live? How do you usually get rid of big things?
- bryondowd 12y agoI'm not in a city, but where I live, if you want to dump large items, you have to take them to a dump site yourself, and pay a fee. Some towns around here will take limited large items from your curb free, but only on specified days, usually around once a month.
- dagw 12y agoNo garbage containers just generally available. And putting trash out on the street will at best get me very angry looks from my neighbors and worst a fine from the police. The correct way to get rid of any garbage that I can't fit into the garbage chute is to take it to the dump (which is a bit tricky without a car).
- cauterized 12y agoDon't know where you live, but here anything left curbside on a pleasant weekend morning will be gone by evening. Also look for local goodwill/Salvation Army locations that might take donations and consider having a yard/stoop sale for anything non-donatable, or even bring it to a flea market. Use Craigslist to sell anything that has value, with a "must pick up" requirement. Finally, there are people who EBay professionally and are generally willing to sell batches of stuff for you on commission.
- Jtsummers 12y agoLast fall I did a major cleanup of my apartment. I trashed things that weren't useable by anyone (damaged, too worn, etc.). I recycled everything that could be recycled. Everything else that I got rid of went to Goodwill. If you don't care about the money, thrift stores are great places to take your unwanted stuff (clothes and furniture in my case). If you have books in good repair, your local library may take donations. If not them, then a local used bookstore.
- mathgeek 12y agoLook into local goodwills. There are usually one or two that will send a truck around periodically and stop to pick up a large group of donations.
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- yodsanklai 12y ago> you realize you only use 25% of what you kept and purge once again The opposite happens too, when you realize that you actually need a tool or an adapter that you just gave away, and they're actually quite expensive!!