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ENCORE EPISODE: THINGS TO CONSIDER TOSSING AFTER YOU'RE 50 · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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  professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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  Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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  Welcome. Everybody to uncluttered and
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  unfiltered. I'm Eden Kendall along with
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  Christine Stone and we have a really great topic today say
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  that is going to get you at least thinking about letting go
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  of some things now that you are if you are over 50, before we do
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  a little bit of chitchat, why don't you explain what what is
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  meant by that? Well.
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  Once you get into your 50s, there are items that you really
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  do need to look at in your house that it's time to think about
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  letting go. And so today's episode, we're
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  going to talk about all of those items and what to do the items,
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  what items as an organizer that I see all the time that I think
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  it's time ladies, to start letting it go.
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  Some of these things are things that I really thought I had to
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  hold on to until the end of time, so I'm happy to review
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  these with you. I might still need additional
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  convincing, but that's what this this is all about.
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  But in the meantime, we had a great week.
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  Christine and I had a chance to spend some time together on
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  television here locally this week.
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  I was filling in on one of the local lifestyle and
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  entertainment shows here in Jacksonville, FL where we both
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  live, and we did a segment on one of the days for the podcast
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  and also for an upcoming appearance we had and that was a
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  lot of fun. I loved it.
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  I love being with you on TV. That's how we met.
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  That's so. I love it.
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  I love it. It was a lot of fun.
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  We, I kind of feel like we took it over the segment because we
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  have that chemistry now we are together.
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  I wanted to share with you that at the end of the week, because
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  my day job is radio and it always has been, having filled
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  in for it was four days, I took a look at the end of the week at
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  screenshots and videos from my time on TV and decided that
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  three of the four outfits I wore I did not like.
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  So do you know what happened? Tell me I didn't hang them back
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  up. I'm so excited.
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  And they were really nice dresses and shirts.
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  And I thought if I didn't like the way they looked, I won't be
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  wearing them again. I put them in the bag.
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  And if you're not familiar with the bag, go listen to Episode 1.
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  And that's it. It why hang it back up.
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  Well, and you being on TV a lot, that's the perfect thing to say.
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  OK, that's not going back in the closet.
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  And that's what I always tell women is if you put something on
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  and you look in the mirror and you say, Oh my God, I feel
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  terrible in this. I don't like the way I look.
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  Don't hang it back up. Put it in the bag, can sign it,
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  donate or give it to a friend or a relative and let it go.
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  It's the hanging it back up that tricks mind into thinking it's
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  potentially something you'll wear again, right?
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  So as soon as you take it off at the end of the day, or if you
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  put it on and then don't end up wearing it because you looked
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  yourself over in the mirror and thought, well, it's.
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  Taking up space for new things that you will love and feel good
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  about when you wear them. Something completely off
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  subject. Since we're talking about
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  broadcasting, I mentioned that I'm on the radio every day.
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  Today we interviewed a guest that made sense for the country
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  music radio show on which I appear every day, but would
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  never make sense for this particular podcast.
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  Have you heard of power slapping?
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  I have never heard of that. This is a UFC sanctioned
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  Ultimate Fighting sanctioned event to where grown men stand
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  with their hands behind their back and take turns slapping
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  each other in the face until. I'm dumbfounded.
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  I know you are. I know you are.
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  Well, here locally we have the current champion of the sport
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  and he goes to Las Vegas and he participates in this and he
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  stands there and takes it while a man who weighs 200 plus pounds
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  open hands slaps him in the face.
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  And then he returns the favor many times, knocking the other
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  guy out cold. OK, what is the point of this
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  though? Is there a point to it?
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  Gladiator style, Something to bet on, something for people to
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  enjoy watching and the reason I feel.
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  Old right now, just so you know. You feel old.
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  The reason I even bring this up is because the the number one
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  question I had for him, from the time I knew we were going to
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  talk to him until the time he was on the phone, I knew exactly
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  what I wanted to say to this young man.
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  What does your mother think about this vocation?
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  Because make no mistake, this is his full time job.
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  He said she can't watch. I just don't I I this is this is
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  the old lady boomer and me coming out.
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  I find nothing redeemable about this job.
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  I find nothing that I would watch this like this this.
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  So I mean, you know, everybody should do their own thing, but I
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  just don't know if I want to be slapped in the face a million
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  times. And do you know?
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  Do you? And this is you as a mom of two
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  daughters. Now I have a son who will tell
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  you that these guys have done this before hanging out like,
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  hey guys, let's have a slap fight.
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  But as a mom of daughters, I'm sure you.
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  Well, they make everybody makes fun of me because I'm like, that
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  will cause CTE. Everything I see that's going to
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  cause CTE. What is CTE?
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  That's when they find out like from football players, the
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  concussions have really done something.
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  They changed their brain chemistry and I always see all
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  these sports and say that's going to cause CTE.
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  Oh, yeah, no, Tim. So for sure this one would.
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  To me, this is a last resort vocation.
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  This is like you know you're you're going.
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  This is my facial expression. The gladiators, they, the
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  prisoners have to do. They could fight a lion or they
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  could do a slap fight. Anyway, I just thought, I
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  thought it would be enjoyable if not for you, but for me to look
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  at your face, to look you in the face and tell you about this.
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  You know, I would say nothing ever surprises me and nothing
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  ever. Surprises me that.
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  I mean, you know. So, so anyway, that's that's the
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  unfiltered reaction from Christine Stone for power
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  slapping. Let's switch gears to
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  uncluttered reactions, which is the things that you should
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  consider. You're never one to tell no.
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  I'm not. I'm not.
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  These are things you should consider letting go of once you
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  are 50. All right, let's refresh.
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  OK. It's a whole new topic.
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  Well, I like that you said should consider because in my
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  job, you never, when people finally decide they want help,
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  it's because they really want help.
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  You never want to force anybody into doing anything.
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  When it comes to letting go of items.
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  It's a personal thing for everybody.
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  It's very emotional, very emotional.
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  And so when you're ready to let these items go, this is where
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  this list comes in. OK, so I am at that point where
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  I really would like to reduce the clutter and I go in waves
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  and I'm, I'm at the the Crest of one of those waves right now.
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  So what is your #1 not well, I don't know.
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  It's not in an order, yeah. It's not in an order, but
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  another thing real quick. A lot of people in their 50s and
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  60s and 70s have downsized. So This is why I bring this
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  topic up, because you don't have the room you had.
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  So the first thing on the list is old school photos.
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  Those are paper photos and the reason why I bring this up
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  because if you are in your 50s, forties, 60s, this has become a
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  real issue because you're not going to just throw them out.
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  So what do you do with them? And it's a very time consuming
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  project, I will say, but so well worth it when you get your older
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  photos organized. And so the first thing you want
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  to do is get containers that are weather tight.
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  If you're going to do them in like a plastic container that is
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  weather tight to keep out humidity in bugs and never store
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  your photos like in an attic. It has to have air conditioning
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  or be climate controlled. If you want to put them on say a
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  shelf in your office or in your living room, then that's a
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  different type of container because you may pull it down and
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  during the holidays being nostalgic and look at them.
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  So you want to get your containers.
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  I always say if you don't have a big table, open a card table
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  because it's going to be like shuffling cards.
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  You're going to have different categories and you're going to
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  decide what your categories are. So, for instance, you want to
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  take all the photos you have in your house and gather them in
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  one spot. So if you have some in a drawer
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  here, some in a drawer there, up in a cabinet, that's the first
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  thing. Because once you get them all in
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  one spot, then you can start sorting them by events or by
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  child. Question for you.
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  You mentioned bins now photo albums that that would take
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  forever and is not as conducive to what you're trying to
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  accomplish, am I right? I mean, are you know about the
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  albums well? Unless you're going to take your
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  photos and send them off. To have a book.
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  And to have a book made to do your own photo albums like we
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  used to in the 70s and in the 80s and even in the 90s, I don't
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  know if you want to spend the time doing that or, you know,
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  you don't want to make this such a chore that you get halfway
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  through and say, forget it, I'm not doing this.
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  That's the big thing about organizing photos.
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  You want to be able to complete the project.
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  With my son, I used to go to creative memories parties and he
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  had that scrapbooking thing and he has a beautiful first year
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  scrapbook. Not, not the girl child, because
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  it was a really elaborate deal to like make these very fancy
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  scrapbooks. And, you know, I'm not going to
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  do that for his entire life and then go back and do it again for
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  hers. But that's just me.
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  I never made one of those. I I'm not a crafty kind of gal,
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  so the most I did was just slide them in.
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  You know where you used to have the sheets and you just slide
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  them in so they. Came to Yeah.
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  And that's what it usually does come to.
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  SO sorting them is a choice. Some people want to sort them by
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  vacations, holidays, years, children.
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  So that's just something you have to decide.
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  You gather all the photos and you let go of the photos that
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  are blurry, which back in the day there were tons of those
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  photos, photos of people you don't remember or don't know.
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  So there's tons of those photos. You may say, who the heck is
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  that person? If you don't know him, it's time
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  to let go of the. Memory doesn't get sharper as
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  you know, get older. It's not like a year from now
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  it's going to come to you or. What if it's someone in the
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  photo that you were friends with 20 years ago, but you haven't
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  seen him in 20 years and you're really not going to?
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  And so what's, you know, why keep it double S?
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  We used to get a lot of double S back in the day.
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  So you don't need to keep two of the same photo.
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  That was always a selling point for every photo developer.
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  Right, exactly. Free set of Duke.
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  Hits which think about that now, I mean, you know, who needs two
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  photos of everything? So and also if another thing
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  about remembering, maybe they're not worth remembering someone in
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  the photo. I have a lot of clients that are
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  divorced that are like, we're getting rid of everything that
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  reminds me of that time in my life because it wasn't a happy
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  time and it's OK now to let those kind of things go.
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  So photos are so important, especially when you're moving or
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  when your kids are adults. I mean, you're going to want to
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  give them their photos so that they can share them with their
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  kids. And so having them organized,
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  you're just giving someone a bin or a box.
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  So it can be tedious, but setting up a card table with
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  bins and just start sorting, Make sure you label, label,
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  label, label because if you forget to label, you're not
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  going to know what is in the bin.
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  The next item are your kids baby toys.
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  I see this so much. And now that I have my own
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  grandchild, for sure, I understand a lot more.
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  So I will be organizing a client over 50 and they'll say they'll
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  have like, you know, a little Susie doll from when they were
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  little and the hair's all messed up and the clothes, and they'll
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  say she may want it for her child.
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  And I'm like, really? I mean, I learned one thing,
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  having a grandchild, everything I say mom, they don't do that
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  anymore. It causes seizures, that
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  material. They don't do that anymore.
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  Ever. I can't tell you how many times
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  I have heard this from my daughter.
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  Good luck passing your old toys. Bald, musty, you know, been
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  sitting in a bin for 20 years. I mean, there may be one thing
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  like old fashioned wood blocks because I well, I don't know,
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  the paint may have lead in it, who knows.
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  But I'm saying this generation that's having babies for sure,
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  they are very picky. They do not.
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  Want they don't want it and and they'll ask my clients will ask
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  their children and they'll be like, no, I'm not no, mom can't
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  do that. And they'll tell me, oh, you
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  were right. He or she didn't want it.
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  So I see the results all the time.
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  So if you're holding on to all these old toys, ask them if they
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  really would use them, and if not, get rid of them.
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  OK, You're the boss. You're the mom.
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  Absolutely. You're the boss, you're the mom.
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  It's your child. Tempting to say, but look at you
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  here, thriving. But you don't say that because
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  it will get, you know? I have said that once, you know,
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  I did all this with you and you seem like great.
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  So OK, now we're going to go to the adult children's
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  memorabilia. They've been out of your house.
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  They don't live there anymore. Some of them are even married.
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  They have their own homes. And I see constantly parents
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  keeping their child's soccer trophies, medals, running gear,
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  soccer shoes, you name it, it's in boxes.
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  And they don't want them that the parents, the adult parents
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  do not want them in their home. But they keep asking and asking.
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  So I think it's having a real conversation.
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  Fully built Lego. Sets right, fully built I've
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  seen a million of those I can't tell you so any kind of
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  memorabilia from your kids when they and also that would include
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  artwork, report cards yearbooks. If they want this stuff, they
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  should take it and put it where they live.
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  And I'm not saying when they're in college that's different,
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  they always come home. But I'm saying if they have
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  started their life with their home and you really do not have
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  the place to store it and it's taking up room or using a spot
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  that you could be using for yourself and enjoying.
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  You should give them the option the next time they're in town if
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  they don't live in town to really go through these items
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  and start getting rid of them. One of the things that used to
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  drive me crazy, there was this whole phase and everybody
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  remembers this, when all of these shows about tiny houses
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  would be on all of the, the home channels And he would be furious
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  because these, these young folks would be like, I love it.
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  I feel like it's roomier than I even thought it would feel.
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  And it's great. And I keep saying show the
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  parents house, show the parents attic it because you're not
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  minimizing if every single thing you own is right now stored at
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  your parents and your poor parents house.
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  So I I think you're right, if you are starting out on your own
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  and you want to be an adult, then you have to also have all
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  your crap. Right.
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  And I was telling you now that I have a grandchild, I have to
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  store all that stuff. So I have a high chair, I have a
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  pack and play, I have a little bathtub.
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  I you know what? I.
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  Mean brand new version. Oh, of course, of course, brand
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  new versions of all this stuff that I have to store.
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  So when he comes, I'll have everything.
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  So if you're if you're trying to store everything, you're
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  eventually going to run out of room and that's what I see a
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  lot. You can only store so much,
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  especially if you have downsized.
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  Okay. Okay so the next thing is
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  greeting cards I am huge into keeping.
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  Cards that my mother gave me, that my girls gave me, that my
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  husband gave me. Not everyone's like that.
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  Some people are like, read it and throw it in the garbage, I
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  think. People would be surprised to
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  hear that about you. They are surprised to hear it
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  about me. Now I wouldn't keep every card
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  that someone gave me, but if someone writes a note on it,
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  like a personalized note, I do. I keep them and I there's
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  different ways to keep them, but the newest way and I haven't
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  tried it. So I'll get back to you guys on
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  this is archive. It's an an app that you send
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  your items to. I have sent artwork memorabilia
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  to them and they did an amazing job for my kids artwork and they
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  they made books. They made books and you send
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  everything in a box that they provide you and then you just
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  send it off and then they send you the item that you've picked
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  how you want the items displayed.
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  But the latest one is for greeting cards.
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  And I thought, Oh my gosh, this is great.
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  So you just put all the greeting parts that you're saving in a
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  box and they make it into a buck so you don't have to keep the
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  old school copy of them. And I actually am really excited
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  to try this because I mean, imagine since my kids were, you
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  know, old enough to write and anything, my husband, even if
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  it's from a flower. So you hear this everybody.
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  I do keep something. She has a heart.
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  People do what when you when you do receive this, please let's
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  let's photograph at least the outside of it and and show
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  everybody or I'm through it. I'm really excited about this
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  because I think this, I see a lot of cards people keep and
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  they have a hard time letting them go.
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  And this would be perfect. You just mail them off, they
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  make a buck and you can keep it on a shelf and look at it when
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  you want to look at it. That's perfect.
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  Okay, so the last last, not totally last, but one of the
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  last things is items in your garage.
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  I've talked about garages before, but garages become the
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  storage unit of items that you don't want in your house, but
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  you're not prepared to get rid of them, so they end up in the
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  garage. And so many people can't park
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  their cars in the garage because it's become a storage unit off
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  the house. So when you're in your 50s and
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  your 60s and your kids are grown up, you don't need their old,
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  you know, lacrosse sticks, their soccer equipment, their track
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  items, all their track shoes, that it's time to finally let go
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  of all those items that you've been saving.
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  I know it's hard. Believe me, I work with so many
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  people that I mean, that's a part of your life that's over.
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  Even if they've only been in college for a year, It's it, you
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  know, it's a part of your life that you really were involved
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  in. So to let those items go can be
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  really difficult. But the garage should also be a
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  place that you keep items that you use, not just items that
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  you're storing. And so that would include old
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  golf clubs, which my husband is the worst offender of that.
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  And, and I actually found a place for him to consign his old
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  golf clubs. Yeah, it's low golf.
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  So there are places you can consign old sports.
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  Apartments. And so you don't feel like
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  you're wasting it. And also old tools, old paint
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  cans, broken items, gardening items that you never, ever use,
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  old bags of soil, broken items, items that are broken.
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  I mean, people keep broken lawn chairs.
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  I mean, there's so many things, old beach stuff that you haven't
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  used in 20 years. So keeping the garage as part of
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  an extension of your home is so important to keeping your whole
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  entire home area organized. How many times have you said,
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  oh, I do have one of those, It's in my garage somewhere.
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  You should be able to put your hands on whatever it is, is what
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  I'm hearing you say. Yes, yes.
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  And when you, like I said, when you're in your 50s, because this
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  is for people 50 and over, you don't need these items anymore.
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  You're holding on to it as an emotional thing.
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  Not because you really are going to go out and take your kids
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  soccer ball from when they were in 10th grade and go kick it
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  around the yard. I mean, think about it.
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  You're not going to do that. Might be the exception and if
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  you are, you know who you are, you might have that be that
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  family that on Thanksgiving you get out there and play a little
• 24:36
  bit of touch football or or some soccer.
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  In your 50s, you're playing touch.
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  You might be or your kids. Oh, my God.
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  But I'm saying there are those exceptions, but unlikely that
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  you're going to put together a whole lacrosse team.
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  Get out there. So you know what I'm saying?
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  You can have a A A ball, you know, some freestyle kind of fun
• 24:59
  dodgeball Y kind of things. But not yeah, yes, I do know
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  people who would do that, get out there in their 50s.
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  I also know somebody who won't get rid of her roller skates,
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  even though she knows it's a terrible idea for her to get on
• 25:09
  them. A.
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  Terrible idea. Terrible, terrible idea.
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  And by her I mean me. Yeah, I kind of gathered that.
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  OK, just checking. Anyway, roller blades, roller
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  skates, anything that you're not going to use anymore, you need
• 25:26
  to consignment. Let it go, give it to a friend.
• 25:29
  Maybe they have kids and they would want it.
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  There's always somebody that might want your items so you
• 25:36
  don't feel bad about letting it go.
• 25:38
  There's somebody who needs them or will use them quite the.
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  Opposite You can feel great about it, right?
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  You can feel really great about giving items that you don't want
• 25:47
  to somebody who really wants them.
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  And the last thing is collections.
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  And I'm going to throw my own brother under the bus for this.
• 25:54
  Great. He's had a beer can collection
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  since he was, I don't, I don't know, a teenager.
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  And he is now 59, No 60, No 59. He's going to kill me if I add
• 26:09
  even an inch on to him. And I went to his house, went
• 26:13
  down in the basement, and there were all those beer cans in
• 26:19
  bins. And I said to him as an
• 26:22
  organizer, as his sister, when's the last time you have even
• 26:25
  looked at your beer cans? He goes never, never, ever.
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  I go, then why don't you get rid of them?
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  Maybe someone will buy some of them.
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  Worth anything. Yeah.
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  Find out if they're even worth anything.
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  And that's the thing about collections.
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  Everybody thinks their collection is worth a gazillion
• 26:46
  dollars. This is worth a lot of money.
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  And then they go on eBay, they go online, they look it up and
• 26:54
  I've done this myself and it's worth like $6.00.
• 26:57
  So by the time I pay postage, everything, it's not even worth
• 27:01
  it. So do your homework and if you
• 27:05
  have a collection that you absolutely love, display it,
• 27:08
  enjoy it everyday. You'd walk by and go, gosh, I
• 27:11
  love this. Or let it go and find out what
• 27:14
  it's the value of it is and get rid of it.
• 27:19
  That makes perfect sense. Can't argue with that.
• 27:22
  And some collections are indeed valuable and priceless and you
• 27:27
  want to pass them down. And that's one thing.
• 27:32
  But for the. But if that were the case,
• 27:34
  though, why wouldn't you want to display them?
• 27:36
  Like, why are they shoved in a drawer?
• 27:37
  I have some some little pieces of China that I thought were
• 27:42
  very, I'm sorry, probably not China.
• 27:44
  I don't know what they would be, but I I thought they'd be really
• 27:48
  valuable. And I looked them up and just as
• 27:50
  it's almost like you read my mind, But $6.
• 27:53
  Yeah, $6. Yeah.
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  Because people can't wrap their head around something that
• 28:00
  they've been keeping so long thinking it would be valuable
• 28:05
  and and then it's not. And let me just say, that's a $6
• 28:08
  value to a tiny little piece of a fraction of the population.
• 28:13
  Most people wouldn't spend a dime, right?
• 28:16
  But there's someone out there that you'll probably never
• 28:18
  connect with that might give you $6.
• 28:21
  Yeah. So it is worth checking into.
• 28:23
  Certainly shouldn't take up a lot of space in your home if
• 28:25
  it's not going to benefit you and you're not going to get
• 28:27
  anything out of it or nobody in your family will.
• 28:30
  So I like, I like how you are saying these are suggestions.
• 28:35
  These are thought starters. They are not commandments to
• 28:38
  know you are not dignified if you still are holding on to
• 28:42
  these things. But I I also do think there's
• 28:45
  something to be said for telling your kids you, you don't have to
• 28:49
  throw it away. Just take it right Here's a box.
• 28:51
  Right. Sort through it and give the
• 28:54
  rest right to a nonprofit or right friend.
• 28:58
  Right. And that's the thing.
• 28:59
  You're not saying I'm going to throw it away, but you need to
• 29:02
  come and get it because I don't have the room to store it
• 29:05
  anymore. And I, I really can tell you
• 29:10
  from my experience as a professional organizer, people
• 29:14
  in their 50s and older never regret giving their stuff back
• 29:18
  to their kids. It they really do gain storage
• 29:21
  space that they desperately need.
• 29:23
  Yeah, I don't think I've ever said, honey, do you remember
• 29:26
  that report you wrote in fifth grade?
• 29:30
  You know the one about Brett Favre?
• 29:32
  I came and saw you perform it in the.
• 29:34
  Yeah. Do you have a hard copy of that?
• 29:37
  It came up today and I really want to reread it.
• 29:40
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• 29:44
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• 30:31
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• 30:35
  he's repulsive. Yeah, I we won't get into that
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• 30:42
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• 30:45
  that. Let's just say that.
• 30:46
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