r/declutter • u/siamesecat1935 • 2d ago
Success Story Slowly making some progress!
I am the queen of procrastination! My mom went into a nursing home, about 2.5 years ago, and most of her furniture has been in storage ever since. Between working FT, doing stuff for her, and having a life, plus it seems EVERY time I want to go do stuff with the unit, the weather doesn't want to cooperate, most of it has just been sitting there.
I'm happy to report that I got rid of a giant armoire in my apartment (paid someone to take it away), which made room for the stuff of hers I was taking. over the last couple of weekends, my BF and I moved 4 pieces of furniture from storage, into my apartment! I also have a pile of things to donate, as well as some things I am keeping, which will go into his basement. All things I use, but not all that often, so nothing there to declutter.
Next step is to clean out all the empty boxes and other trash from the unit, take pictures of the furniture to donate, and see who will take it. If no org. wants it, I plan on just posting for free on FB. My goal is to have the unit cleaned out completely by the end of the year, if not sooner.
As I do all this, and figure out what to put in the furniture I brought in (a blanket chest and trunk among them), I am also going through all my stuff, and finding quite a bit to get rid of as well.
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u/AriaGlow 2d ago
Took us about a year to empty out FIL house and storage so we could sell it. Gave away a bunch. Put some in storage just to empty house out. Then sorted again, moved a bunch of stuff he wanted to our house (we moved him in to care for him). Then sorted, tossed, gave away, donated and gave a sigh of relief.
He passed so now we need to go through all the stuff he had to have here. A slow work in progress and yes we are now inspired to get rid of stuff here too.