More pics from under it all. Basement.

Pictures of my basement before my transformation from hoarding junkie began.

I havent started on this half of the basement yet. Eventually plan to replace the metal shelves with wood ones like I have pictured and will picture in future posts. The purpose will be to organize items which I have for sale on half.com. http://shops.half.ebay.com/estatecleaner_W0QQmZbooks

Another picture of the as yet untouched half of the basement. Cant wait to get started.

This is the half of the basement that I have started working on, but the good part is behind me.

Another section of the untouched.

View from ebay central past. I used to work on ebay from here, but now I can function properly in this "office" so I use my laptop and my easy chair in the living room.

A GREAT Victory!!

Okay so maybe its not that great, but it is to me. Look!

Ya, that's my Zero-turn inside my garage! Plus my old faithful yardman push mower. I even got all my trash cans that were in front of the garage nicely stacked inside the garage, but that was after I took this picture. Actually I cleaned up most of the stuff in front of the garage. All the wood shelves have been moved to the basement, but I only got two more shelves done today.

Took a bunch of stuff with me to the Country Trader Antique shop in Mansfield today. Old piucture frames, a record player, a cool old black wooden tool chest, and some other trinkets. Had a great day!

I didnt do it

Like I said, it wasnt me. I wasnt even with them. My family stopped at a yard sale on the way home and bought more stuff. I didnt do it.
Anyway, here's a couple more pics of my hoard.

This is a picture of the front of my property taken from my patio. You can see the garage and my "parking lot". It actually looks a little worse right now than in the picture because I had to move some things out of the garage to get to some lumber I had stored in the garage. The lumber came from a business I cleaned out when it moved. They had a lot of wood shelves in the backroom which I removed and put in the garage. Now they are going into my basement so I can store our canning jars on them rather than on the floor.

I can probably get another 3 maybe 4 shelves in here which should be plenty for what I am doing. I have enough materials to build another set of shelves someplace in the basement. I just will need time.

I should mention that I have not been able to get into this space for several years until yesterday when it looked like this.

I know its not much from what it was before I started cleaning out. Below is a pic of boxes and boxes full of books. These were purchased for resale and ended up in the basement. as you probably know, a basement is no place for books. Most of these books are now at the local recycling center. But I still have a tons.

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Somebody To Save Me~Me

It started about 1998 or 1999 with a yard sale. I'd always been pretty good about not holding on to things for too long. All my childhood toys were given away to children as I got too old for them. I did this myself because I wanted to keep my room organized in a disheveled sort of way. At least I knew what I had and where it was at and I was never afraid of letting someone in my room.

So anyway, one day I needed some extra cash to pay a bill and so I had a yard sale. I made a lot of money that day selling my stuff for cheap. So much that I really wanted to do it again, so I started going  to other peoples yard sales and buying stuff. That lead to Flea Markets and auctions. Things began to pile up as I bought the $1.00 box lots. Couldn't sell it fast enough and I just couldn't throw it away.

Then we bought a house with a garage and a basement. Which I have filled. I must say that my wife has been very good about it and has done a good job of keeping things manageable. I really was buying to resell, but somehow I just kept buying and buying and not selling so much as I should.

This year things have changed. I have started cleaning out. I don't go to yard sales or auctions, but I do clean out estates and apartments which can bury me under mounds of stuff.

This blog is about sharing my recovery, sharing my unburying. I want my house back. I want to be able to use it for more than just storage. So today I am asking you a favor. Help me help myself. Share your stories with me. I'll try to help you too if you want. Maybe we can help each other end the clutter forever.

This is a couple pics of my front patio and entrance room. This is what ppl see when they come to my house. Yeah I do some scrap metal too, trying to make ends meet.
Yeah I sell stuff on ebay and co-op shops, but I have so much now and I have trouble selling too cheap. My ebay user ID is estatecleaner. Ive been selling a long time and have over 10000 feedback.

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