On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:53:37 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

On 10/16/2014 10:31 PM, Jeff Wisnia wrote:
As we get closer to selling our big empty nest and moving to a two
bedroom condo I look at my lifetime collection of hand and power tools
plus drawers and boxes of electrical, plumbing, hardware and metal stock
filling the nether regions of our home and wonder how I can possibly
accept no longer having all of that stuff at my beck and call.

I ran across this item which says it all:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/Selling_my_stuff.jpg

Jeff

My mom describes three stags of life

1) you want everything
2) you work to buy everything
3) You realize none of that matters, and give it all away

My old neighbor Marvin showed me his cellar, a
couple weeks ago. He's got tools and stuff from
having needs, garage sales, etc. He's got three
cordless drills for example. Problem is "kids these
days" don't care about wood chisels, mitre saws, and
so on. Even to donate it to charity, most of it goes
in the landfill. What to do?

I'm in the same situation, lifetime of accumulated
stuff. Who reads hard bound books any more? Who uses
filament flash lights? Who uses hand tools? I may
be moving out of state, and can't take it all.

I've got a garage full of all sorts of tools and can't imagine not
having them. Yet... when I go back east for a month to visit people I
find that after getting settled in for a week or so I really don't
miss hardly anything at all and feel like if I never went back it
would be no big deal. The few things I would eventually need I'd just
go buy or just hire someone to do the work while I goof off.