Filling 15 yd. dumpsters w/family treasures

[labrax]

My Dad is a 4 star general in the pack-rat army. I call him 'Sanford'. It is actually a problem and some of his brothers and sisters seem to have it as well. They grew-up in a very large family with absolutely no money, so that is what I attribute it to. It drives my mom nuts and it is embarrassing too. The only man that I know that would go to the dump and come back with more stuff. He has a shed so packed with stuff you could not walk into it, the garage is jammed and you have about 30" of floor space to turn around in. Trying to find a tool will drive you out of your mind - and he has a lot of them, but can never readily locate them. I gotta keep a check on myself too, but at least I realize that stuff has to go and do it when I can. If you have not used it in a couple of years then recycle, donate, pitch it. For me the mess weighs on me and gets me stressed out and it feels like a weights lifted when the stuff is gone.

[tattoobob]

We moved 5 years ago and we have about 20 plus boxes left that never got unpacked, I keep telling my wife if we didn't need it by now we don't need it, and if we did we bought another one so we should just throw them out. of corse it is never going to happen. and I am not un packing it. before we moved I filled this constrution dumpster about 10 times with 16 yrs. of crap that we saved and it just added up. I used to call it midnight dumpster runs