The totally off-topic thread

[Hvr]

Gosh. I dont care as long as someone takes my broken rubbish away!
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Nor do I care. Once gone it's no longer my problem. I had an old PC and after removing the hard drive put it on the nature strip. Didn't take long for it to 'disappear'.


From 1'30" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLp7N1Wi38

 

[Quickstatus]

When duplex scanners came I invested in one so now I have nearly everything important digitised. Currently approx 500Gb
Every year when it's time to do the fire alarm battery thing, I archive the old drive and build the dataset onto a new Hard drive.
2 mirrored harddrives per data set per year

 

[Bindibuys]

Dead end dirt road with 3 neighbours past my gate...... don't like my chances of someone picking up my rubbish.

 

[Flying mermaid]

That's my idea to - except we are both going out of this house in a box :shock: but I would like to make it easier on my DIL as I know she will be the one to throw stuff out. But what to do with a "good" dinner set and heaps of "dust catchers" !!!!!!!!!!

i helped sort out both my mother in law's things and my Mum's. My mum was easy as I really couldn't transport anything to Australia, so I have no idea what happened to all her beautiful crystal and Venetian glass. I suspect it all went to the staff at the retirement village.

No one wanted my MIL's dust catchers either but I felt it was so sad for them to be thrown out, as I remembered how much she loved them, so I brought some of them back to Canberra where they sit in a cupboard.

I still use my good crockery and I think one of the kids would like to take it and the crystal glasses, but I suspect I need to get rid of my own set of dust catchers. (And my MIL's). Or maybe pass that burden onto the girls.

i have already done my jewellery - the girls divvied it up and we wrote a list of who wants what. If I last to 80, I plan to give it to them then, otherwise they can take it when I go. Master FM didn't want any jewellery although I kept a few pieces for him. The kids have also decided who wants what paintings - we have a few artist friends so keep buying pieces - not good at this point of our lives!

 

[Denali]

Main thing at our house to hand out is booze and guitars. Lots of both.

Sadly, the guitars will be unappreciated and some are worth quite a lot now as they are rare/classic/older styles.

I do shudder at the thought of my 21yr nephew and his buddies swilling my $1000 bottles but I'll be dead by then.

 

[love_the_life]

My mother is sorting through her house and gradually getting rid of things. She has a friend living in another town who visits and takes things for her to go to the op shop in her town. Last time it was a pile of shoes and assorted kitchen ware. I boxed a tea set when I was there last time and it's in the cupboard with my name on it. I don't particularly like it but my parents bought it in momiry if my grandmother so I couldn't really refuse it. There is very little in Mum's place that I really want - maybe the family tree and a few old photos.

 

[RAM]

Main thing at our house to hand out is booze and guitars. Lots of both.

Sadly, the guitars will be unappreciated and some are worth quite a lot now as they are rare/classic/older styles.

I do shudder at the thought of my 21yr nephew and his buddies swilling my $1000 bottles but I'll be dead by then.

Hopefully the stress of thinking about what they'll do doesn't kill you!

Or....


Solution - when's the "appreciation night"?

 

[RAM]

My mother is sorting through her house and gradually getting rid of things. She has a friend living in another town who visits and takes things for her to go to the op shop in her town. Last time it was a pile of shoes and assorted kitchen ware. I boxed a tea set when I was there last time and it's in the cupboard with my name on it. I don't particularly like it but my parents bought it in momiry if my grandmother so I couldn't really refuse it. There is very little in Mum's place that I really want - maybe the family tree and a few old photos.

It is not a fun thing to have to do the sorting out post parent's one way trip (it is AFF after all!).

Finding the box of hand made Xmas, Mother's Day, birthday cards by all of us dating back to first crayon scrawls (works of art) to every school report and locks of hair from first hair cut - makes tossing out/giving away other momentos so very hard.

Does make you realise what really matters.

 

[cove]

We have two sons so one question came up to do with jewellery if we drop off the perch.
The question was where do we sell it?
Sons are really sentimental.
Now we are in Los Angeles and jet lagged as usual.
We watched an episode of "Leave It To Beaver" as it is so much better than the news.

 

[AisleSeat]

Happy International Beer Day!

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

We have two sons so one question came up to do with jewellery if we drop off the perch.........................

Hopefully you will have some grand-daughters before that happens !!

 

[Denali]

Nephew turned 21 this week so we sent his sister home with a nice 21yr scotch that I bought years ago in anticipation of his 21st.

Now waiting for Facebook photos of the swillfest.... As I told my husband, a gift has no strings attached so that's his choice.

 

[Pushka]

My mother is sorting through her house and gradually getting rid of things. She has a friend living in another town who visits and takes things for her to go to the op shop in her town. Last time it was a pile of shoes and assorted kitchen ware. I boxed a tea set when I was there last time and it's in the cupboard with my name on it. I don't particularly like it but my parents bought it in momiry if my grandmother so I couldn't really refuse it. There is very little in Mum's place that I really want - maybe the family tree and a few old photos.

I took the tea set I'd given mum from my first pay packet. Her jewellery was given at my request to my niece but I do have her (replacement) engagement and eternity rings. I left Mum with her wedding ring and gold bangle that Dad gave her on their 50th. Id already digitised all the photos when I made her a photo book for her 80th and I took this book also. China etc went to the opp shop. Everything else was not needed. My brother already had Dads Medals.

I am downsizing my stuff now but there's still so much 'other' stuff. Books. Hardbacks none of which are mine. I'd chuck em all if I could.

 

[JohnK]

Dead end dirt road with 3 neighbours past my gate...... don't like my chances of someone picking up my rubbish.

Move the rubbish to the nearest crossroad on your way out in the morning?

 

[love_the_life]

We have two sons so one question came up to do with jewellery if we drop off the perch.
The question was where do we sell it?
Sons are really sentimental.
Now we are in Los Angeles and jet lagged as usual.
We watched an episode of "Leave It To Beaver" as it is so much better than the news.

I remember watching Leave it to Beaver when we first got our TV when I was a child. Must have been late 50s I think. I know we didn't have a TV for the Melbourne Olympics as we all trooped up the road (as in the whole school plus assorted people living in the area) to watch on a friend's. They had the first one in the neighbourhood. We also enjoyed Bonanza, Rawhide and Pick A Box.

 

[Antoallison]

I did the clear out of my mothers house when she passed away, after living in the same home since 1952 and becoming a bit of a hoarder in the last decade or two - it was a marathon effort.

I took me nearly 2 weeks and many trips to the op shops - somehow I felt a bit embarrassed to leave it all at one shop !

Since then I have wandered past an upmarket retro recycled shop and been shocked/amazed at the prices for the type of rusty metal with wooden handled potato masher or an old meat mincing machine and those dated bits and bobs from 1950's that I got rid of.

 

[Bindibuys]

Move the rubbish to the nearest crossroad on your way out in the morning?

Nice try Nearest cross st is also a dead end to the left & 4km to next intersection.

 

[RooFlyer]

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I do shudder at the thought of my 21yr nephew and his buddies swilling my $1000 bottles but I'll be dead by then.

Do what I've done. 1. Stocktake of wine etc. 2. Realistic estimation of when I'll either drop off the perch or be told that I can't drink any more 3. Design consumption schedule as a bell curve - ramp up to a peak while still able to appreciate it, then drop back until you consume the last bottle the day before you fold your tent one way or another.

 

[Denali]

I don't understand chunky furniture in hotel rooms. Put the TV on the wall and toss this stuff.

 

[RooFlyer]

Left over from the days when CRT TVs were hidden in the upper cupboards and when people unpacked their stuff into drawers :shock: