JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for July 09, 2022

Then Joe and Marcy will become maximalists.

They should become public storage unit users too.

“…meaning we are becoming maximalists.”

So Goodwill and thrift stores weren’t open?

Yeah, after funerals when people say “I don’t want this but we can’t get rid of it. Keep it at your house.” Most minimalists seem to maximize using others. “We don’t have that, we’ll just use yours.”.

Talk about downsizing.

Tell them you’re going to take it all to the dump – and see how fast they want to take it back.

Must have been from all those years ago when they moved from their apartment into the brownstone townhouse.

so they’re either shrinking themselves or just having less stuff at the house?

One man’s junk ….

Don’t look. Just take it all to Good Will, Salvation Army, etc immediately.

When things are still in good shape and you hope the kids want it. But they already have their own stuff and don’t want or need it.

They’ve decided to get a jump on Joe and Marcy inheriting all their stuff.

Free storage. Those other places charge money.

We at age 70+ are doing the same thing

Mortimer is sniffing for drugs. Practicing anyway.

Only part I have a lot of is book’s, yet as I finish each one I will not keep, mostly romance novels. My mom had lot of collections of either bells or dolls, that was rough eliminating, dolls not sold.

Sounds like they need a storage unit!

Pass it to Nicole and Marcus,“to start them off”. Marcus will love getting free stuff.

So. . .it’s not just my parents?

So, in cleaning out my parents hoard, I filled six 6 cubic yard dumpsters. About 3/4ths of the way through of mostly tossing and occasionally looking, I found a photocopy of a piece of Mongolian currency with the autographs of 13 of the Japanese war crimes defendants which my aunt obtained while a WAC in the crew of military court reporters transcribing the trials. In my father’s handwriting was a note “I have the original”. But he was dead by that point. The original is undoubtedly in a land fill, gently composting. I wish I had spent more time looking.

Nah.this is a bad idea

If they’re becoming REAL minimalists, they should have dropped that stuff at the Goodwill.