Do you ever feel like you have too much stuff?

I used to think I had too much stuff, but when I moved about 2 years ago I got rid of a LOT of stuff. My kids have way too much stuff and I am slowly working on getting rid of some of the clutter that they have accumulated.

I always feel like we have too much stuff. We have moved 8 times in the last 10 years. Every time we moved it seemed to take us longer and more boxes to do it. I'll just get in these moods and I'll go around the house grabbing stuff we never use and throw it in the box for a yard sale. My grandmother was a huge pack rat so I have a little bit of trouble getting rid of stuff but I am determined not to get like she was so I keep after it all.

Oh yeah. We have a bunch of stupid little things laying around the house. Nothing specific just stuff we don't need. I usually go through my daughter's toys and clothes a few times a year to get rid of things. I go through mine and hubbys clothes too. I try to sell what I can online and the rest I give to Goodwill.

No matter how much space I have, I seem to accumulate more stuff to clutter it up. I was too ill to clean for a couple of weeks, so now the house is in need of a thorough cleaning as well as a major un-cluttering. Today was trash and recycling pick-up day, so I grabbed a couple of giant trash bags last night and put a whole lot of clutter in the trash. I'm determined to put at least one over-sized sack of things I should have thrown away long ago in the can each time it's pick-up day, until I can be proud of my house again. As it is now, it's an embarrassing mess!

Funny you should ask. About a year ago our family decided to start travel nursing. It gives us a chance to travel all over the USA, and other countries if we want, and it really forced us to get rid of a lot of "stuff". We kept what we thought we needed and put the rest in storage. We drag a 5x8 trailer around behind us and we'd love to knock it down to a 4x6. We got rid of so much junk and let me tell you its very liberating to reduce your resposibility on things. I joke and tell people that my goal is to tell my kids to pick up their "toy", singular mind you. One toy, ha, I know that's not possible. But if you held a garage sale or junk sale you would get rid of so much stuff that seems to be taking over your life. Remember you can always say "no" when somebody wants to give you something you don't want.

I feel that way a lot. Mostly from the things that my kids have. The way that we deal with it is by having a yardsale every Spring or Summer. There are some years when we'll have two yardsales just to get rid of some of the stuff. Every year I also go through all of our clothes. Whatever we haven't worn in a year goes in a bag to the Salvation Army. You can also try selling some of your things on Ebay or Craigslist.

I have alot it is stuffed in every nook and cranny we have and it is too good to toss and we always think if we toss it we will need it so we keep it. My home is groaning at all the stuff we have. I keep it out of the kitchen,living room and bedroom though and it is pretty much in only two rooms that are guest rooms. My mom does that keeps buying and buying and never uses it mostly. Yes, I have went through the closets and gave and thrown stuff out many times but as you say it keeps accumulating all the time. When I am given something that I can't or won't use I will sometimes give it away or re-gift it to someone who can use and will use it.

Gosh yes! And most of it just sits and collects dust. We've gotten rid of a few things, like our old car that was just sitting in the driveway, but we still have a lot of stuff that we don't use. I'd like to sell some of it, but my husband wants to keep these things to pass them on to the kids, I guess. But with everything here it sure clutters up the house and drives me nuts! If we ever do hold a yard sale we'll make a killing! LOL

When we move, I always say that we have way to much stuff. I think that it is just a part of human nature. I did throw away a lot of stuff this time and I am still going through stuff and getting rid of stuff that we don't use or need. I also have decided that I will find a way of keeping all of our school stuff together instead of having it scattered all through the house.

I know that I have too much stuff and wonder what it is that keeps me buying more when I know that I don't need anything else. At one time I moved from a 5 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom townhouse and had to downsize and just LEFT things there that I didn't have room for. As soon as I was there I started buying things, but not much since I didn't have much room. 3 years later, I moved to where I am now, which is a 3 bedroom apartment that is like a house and I have bought so much stuff since I've lived here. I've given some stuff to the charities, but I still have too much for the space that I live in. I have too many tables and haven't figured out where to put all of them and I am a clutterer, too. My kids call me a pack rat and have already talked of the day that I die and they have to get rid of all the things that I have. I have collections of hippos (over 300), boxes (probably 120), pitchers (25 or so that were my mothers), postcards, and enough family pictures for several families, although my family is big..........5 siblings, 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 2 stepgrandchildren. I also have over 200 cd's, probably that many or more music albums, maybe 100 books..and that was after leaving maybe 300 at the 5 bedroom house, but buying more where I live now. But I am a reader and will read them and give them away.....well, most of them. I have a complete set of hard back books of Danielle Steele's books that I won't get rid of unless someone came along and offered me a good price for them :) On the good side, I do have a box full of things to give to one of the charities for resale.

yes I do

Oh my gosh yes! I was in a four bedroom house and whent he kids movd out I realzied that! I had 3 yard sales every summer for 2 years in a row! My daugher brough her stuff over too! What didn't sell was stored for the next one and after the third sale of the summer we donated the rest to charity. Then I moved into a 2 bedroom apartment and with that move, didn't have the ambition to do any yard sales so I just gave it all to the church - probably 6 pick up truck loads full and since the apartment... I realized I don't need all that stuff! And am even to the point - I really don't want it either! Go room by room and price as you go and have the best yard sale ever come May - great way to earn a good chunk of money too!

Just before I lost my home a few month ago I realized that this small house I lived in was to full of stuff. I was reminded of George Carlin's skit on Stuff. Then the ax fell and I lost my home and I only had room in storaage for a cerain amount of my things. I had to give up some furnitue and alot of stuff. Some of it was things my kids playeds with and they wern't good enough to be sold. I kept the most precious and let all the rest go. I actually had to give up alot of books. I asked the men that were caarrying the discards out of the hous if they were going to just trash all these books or recycle them. They said they were going to recycle them but then they just threw them into the truck. I ended up filling a medsize box truck 1 and a half times. Thata just the stuff from the inside of the house. So yea I definately had toooooo much stuff!!!!

Yeah I should really have a yard sale or something

I always think there are too many stuffs in my house, actually there are really a lot! I've just moved in to the house for about 3 years, and there are only my husband and I, when my friends came to visit us, they have been always wondering how come I have so many stuffs in the house. I am trying to cut down the unused stuffs, whether to give them to my family or friends, or donate them to the charity. Sometimes, we leave so many stuffs in the house, is because we don't feel like throwing them away, maybe they can still be useful some day. But giving them to others is a good choice, as we never know when we are going to use them, but someone else might need them now. ^_^

I have too much stuff and no time or energy to deal with it.

HI frnds, I will never feel like i have a too much stuff to me.I am a positive thinking mind and positive way in my life never i feel like i have too much stuff to me. I will be positive always.To great life having a good stuff in life. be happy.

I always feel like that. I live with my parents. Its been a habit here to keep stuff. Even junk, garbage, like soda can we keep it. hhh... dont come to my house, its really like a junk storage here. Anyway, we always able to make a space, coz in the end, we try to throw away the junk or even better, sell them.

YUP YUP! MY ROOM'S VERY MESSY...it's filled with books and everything, and my study table...there's just like this really tiny place for me to do my stuff. my mom always complain that I'm very messy and all, just like my father :X hehehes. she says we love to keep rubbish at home :X

No. I don`t have this feeling. There are many things that I do not use in my house, but there are not too much of them. I am more concerned about how clean my house looks like, because when I come home, I realize that it might be in a better order and cleaner. And that I would need to change curtains and wash them, but unfortunately: I don`t have the 2nd pair of curtains to put in its place, so I will have to wait till spring and then change them and wash them. About not useful stuff I can advice YOU to WATCH: "A story of stuff". It is available ON-LINE, on the wen. In search engine simple type in STORY OF STUFF and then watch it. Many new thoughts might wake up in your mind, because they surely did after I watched this movie. It is only 15 minutes long, but very powerful. It reminds about NATURE and what we do to it when we produce TOO MUCH STUFF, most of what we do not really need and do not use every day.