Down one box

[nwhiker]

In the past one week, we are down one box. One. There are still about 3 doz, as well as furniture.

My birthday? Ha.

I'll die of old age before those boxes are out of my house.

The problem? I can't do it. It has to be dh. And he works minimum 10 hour days. Between eating, helping Linnea, and sleep, he truly only ends up with about two hours a day to do anything else. I can't blame his not wanting to do unpacking and dealing with.

He needs to take a week off to deal with this shit, but he won't. Too much work.

This is truly starting to get me down, and I don't know how to tell dh that we need to get a move on dealing with this without coming off as not-helpful. I mean, he knows we need to deal with this and asking him to do more when he can't is unproductive. I know that. I just feel caught as well.

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[camelsamba]

We have a U-Haul U-Box in our driveway to store college kid stuff, since both the grad and the current student are living here for now. Grad doesn't have that much stuff, but it was supposed to get moved to California in April, to free up space for Current Student over the summer. Everyone else was like "we don't really need that, we can make room" but my point was "if it's there, I'll use it to declutter all the other crap we have in this house." But have I? Yes. I've gone through 2 or 3 paper boxes worth. We have about the equivalent of 100 more paper boxes of crap to sort through (or is it 1000 boxes worth? Maybe just 37). And this is just our stuff, not two prior generations.

(I also have one liquor box that I shipped back from Roswell last summer, that I haven't even opened...it was inside a larger box that I did deal with. But there's another one waiting for me in Missouri, if I ever go get it. It has fragile stuff in it and last time we shipped fragile family stuff some of it got broken so I wanted to avoid that this time.)

So anyway, I understand the feeling of being overwhelmed by stuff - and I'm sorry that you don't have a good way to make progress on your piles.

[nwhiker]

I'm sorry you're also in too-much-stuff mode. It's hard, especially when there are emotional connections to things. Or when there is just A LOT OF stuff.