I felt like I was right there with you in opal's house, getting to know her too. I love estate sales and old kitchens. I used to buy everything I loved at thrift stores and estate sales. Now I just buy I know we'll use. I buy almost everything used so it's really become a skill of mine to manage it. Sometimes we have too much and I donate.
I feel this “stuff burden” more and more lately. My kids piles are usually what gives me the most anxiety, but I can get pretty overwhelmed in my own closet too.
B and I don’t really do gifts for each other anymore. Just experiences. It’s hard to get family on board though.
I feel like I have to go through my closet every few months because it gets so stressful when it’s messy and packed with stuff. I have a lot of work to do with it still.
I felt like I was right there with you in opal's house, getting to know her too. I love estate sales and old kitchens. I used to buy everything I loved at thrift stores and estate sales. Now I just buy I know we'll use. I buy almost everything used so it's really become a skill of mine to manage it. Sometimes we have too much and I donate.
It is a skill, isn’t it? I had a feeling you would be into thrift stores and estate sales!
ahaha yeah, I definitely am. Your post made me want to go out looking for some
I feel this “stuff burden” more and more lately. My kids piles are usually what gives me the most anxiety, but I can get pretty overwhelmed in my own closet too.
B and I don’t really do gifts for each other anymore. Just experiences. It’s hard to get family on board though.
I feel like I have to go through my closet every few months because it gets so stressful when it’s messy and packed with stuff. I have a lot of work to do with it still.
Esp with a kid now, I don’t think our families would be able to put a halt to the gifts, but I did read a very enlightening Substack that had lots of ideas: https://open.substack.com/pub/theauntie/p/i-dont-give-gifts-to-kids-or-anyone?r=6hmik&utm_medium=ios