(10-26-2021, 11:36 AM)RicoTx Wrote:

(10-26-2021, 10:58 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Same here. It’s a leather bound set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas. They’re beautiful books. I wanted to toss them, because like you, I discovered there’s nothing to do with them. My wife was apoplectic. She only thinks of the money spent on them and not their current value or uselessness. 

Her nostalgia keeps me from chucking the first TV we ever owned, a 27” Zenith with a wood enclosure. It weighs a ton and occupies valuable space in the back of a closet.

My wife doesn't want to throw anything out.

Same with mine. I hauled truckloads of stuff to the landfill a couple of years ago that was largely junk my kids left when they moved out, but a good percentage of it was my wife’s hoarder stuff. When she allowed me to haul away a couple of large plastic bags of clothes she claimed to be giving away for about 3 years running, I about had a heart attack. That only emboldened me to throw more things in that I knew she would never miss.

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