We have a yard sale about once a year. I usually go through the house with what my husband calls "that look", and I gather up everything I have tired of looking at. Sell sell sell, declutter!
I am on the fence about a chair, bed and couch we are storing in our basement. I just cannot pull the trigger! We rarely use them, but you never know I guess.....
So, have you ever sold or donated anything, big or small, and regretted it? I honestly cannot think of one thing - I always feel so FREE!
I had an Emmaljunga stroller/carriage/buggy - that was awesome, my husband got rid of it - didn't sell it, gave it away. It's $900 new!! How I'm sitting her 32 weeks pregnant on craigslist looking for another - found the identical one for $250 on craigslist.
Nope. Never regretted a thing. I don't like the work that goes into garage sales. I donate the small stuff and sell the bigger stuff on craigslist. Every time something goes out the door I feel lighter and relief to see my useless stuff go to someone else!
I don't, but my mom sold the high chair she used for me and my siblings at a garage sale we had a couple of years ago. Then a few months later she said, "I really wish I hadn't sold it!" Then the next summer, I was driving home and about a half mile from my house I saw it at the end of a driveway with a for sale sign and a coffee can to put your payment in. I surprised her with it the next day. She had tears in her eyes! I told her she didn't sell it, she just rented it out for a year. (and it was pretty much in the same condition as when she sold it!)
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You are right, it is freeing, it's feels like losing weight to me!!!
wish you lived closer, i'm having fun trying to find used furniture to buy=)
Yes, my husband's grand piano. We just didn't have room for it after we remodeled our kitchen (which also changed the living and family room). Not long after my older son developed an affinity for piano, and he's playing on a $90 Casio keyboard from Target. :P
Oh well, we still don't have room for it so I guess its a moot point. It was just such a beautiful and great piano - a music professor bought it (and got a fantastic deal).
I can only think of once I needed something I already gave away but now I can't even remember what it was so I am thinking it wasn't the big deal I thought it was at the time.
We gave away our 5 disk cd player/stereo. It was so bulky and I felt that in the new apartment we didn't have any place to put it, so we donated it to good will. Now I miss listening to the radio and the cds I forgot to take out before the they picked it up :(
I am a purger!! I love to clean out and get rid of.....If you hang on to things for too long you won't be able to get your money back out of the item. Also I look at things, I can buy things I want from someone who doesn't want them and save a ton of money... I have only regretted selling a few things but after looking at the money i got for them....never looked back .. Don't sweat the small stuff go on Craigs list and buy something different Change is GOOD!!!
I had kept some furniture for "just in case," and then when I decided on what I really wanted to do with my basement space (my daughter calls it her restaurant theatre), I got rid of all of it. Such irony, but no regret--except maybe for taking so long to use the basement for something other than storage.
The regret comes in having bought some things that didn't fulfill the need I had, and now I have to find a person or place to send them to. This purger feels great, but it takes too much time of my life!
Nope...there are times I regret not selling something. And I liked your post title :)
I am a purger personally ... I have not regretted anything I have sold/passed on personally but I have almost felt that way about a few things - then rememberd the feeling of freedom I get when I pass those things on.
Yes, we gave away a perfectly good sofa couch to a cousin who was going away. Now, not even a year later we are moving into a home that we will need living room furniture, family room furniture and basement furniture. And I dont have that much stuff. Boy do I wish i kept it! good luck.
Oh my gosh, I need an ounce of your determination. I have a few boxes full of stuff and an entire craft room to go through. I donate to goodwill a few times a year and have sold lots of craigslist, but this year I want to do a garage sale in a few weeks. Just the thought of going through everything is seriously depressing me, I have serious conflict over purging/hoarding. I have mountains of clothes/shoes/crafts/kinckknacks and stuff to sell!
As for regretting... I donated a lot of my dad's clothes after he died. I wish I hadn't and had saved them to make into a memory quilt for my mom and siblings. As for other junk... haven't missed a single thing!
I've had to leave everything behind me a few times. I miss it ALL. (granted, that's different from getting to choose stuff).
We're still in the "collecting" part of our lives. 3 people, 40k income, 30k in tuition and books (2 college, 1 preschool) didn't leave a lot of money to live on the first 4 years of our marriage/ son's life. Over the past 5 years we're SLOWLY getting to the place where we ALMOST have everything we need. Not want. That list is MUCH longer.
The one REAL regret I have is the ancient crib. My grandmother was in it. All of her kids. All of us when we visited. The same month my mum finally sold it (since no one was looking to get pregnant for 10-20 years), my son broke through 3 forms of birth control to be conceived.
nope!! there has been a time I wished I had waited maybe a month to sell it because one VERY similar to it sold for about $200 more than mine did - but hey - them's the breaks!!! :)
GO FOR IT!! If you have used it in six months - get rid of it!!
