So Much Junk!
I don't get it. I mean, I literally throw out one thing a week pretty much.
I feel like there's even MORE stuff in this house than there was before.
It's crazy. In the last 6 months I've legitimately trashed, or donated like, one thing a week. That would be 26 items... I've actually done, on average, 2 to 3 things, so I'm really at 75 different items.
An old walker, couch cushions torn apart by cats, old gas and paint cans and car things from the garage, the old lawn mower (two of them) and weedwacker, broken space heaters (two of them)...
And a bunch of other things. Old shampoo... Sauce packets that my mom kept, like hundreds of them...
But it's just like the MORE I throw out... the more there seems to be!
I really need to go to home depot and buy another storage unit. Ideally I want to use the basement as a staging area and then re-do rooms in the house.
I'm considering buying a small house somewhere just to use as storage.
What I'd do is rent out one of the rooms to cover costs, and then put a padlock on another room and just use that as a storage unit. I wouldn't go rent a real storage unit because then you're just throwing money away.
If I buy a small house and rent it out, it's a physical asset that I can sell at a later date... And not only do I get storage space, I also get income.
My biggest problem with renting is... I hate people. No offense... I don't hate ALL people. I just hate those people that try to take advantage of other people.
So, for example, if I rent it to someone and they pay first and last month security, and pass background check, and pay rent, and don't put holes in the walls...
That's someone I like.
If they move in. Stop paying rent. Refuse to leave. Break a bunch of stuff when I try to kick them out... Do drugs in the house, threaten my life...
Etc. etc.
I don't want to have to deal with that kind of person.
I feel like in the rental game, you probably have those people.
Deadbeats.
They just exist. It's a fact of life.
This is why I'd rather possibly, buy the property, then have a management company handle everything for me... THEN use that income check to pay for space at a storage company.
Buy shares in the storage company so I get the dividend.
I don't know.
Seems like a lot of effort to avoid accidentally renting to deadbeats.
I imagine this is how women probably feel about online dating.
You want something good... But you have to deal with the possibility that you might end up encountering a deadbeat.
If only there were a way to just NOT have deadbeats in the world. Just round them all up... Send them to some kind of finishing school so they can learn to be productive and decent members of society... Instead.
Who knows... I don't.
Anyway...
All I REALLY want to do is deal with this junk.
I was thinking a possibly better way to do it would be to buy shares in a REIT that rents out apartments, or houses... Then use the income from that to rent storage.
OR, use that income to pay for taxes on a house, and maintenance and what not...
And then just own the house and use it for storage.
That way, I don't have to rent to anyone.
And then every now and then I could AirBNB it or something.
Again though... You might end up dealing with that person who tries to take advantage of you.
See, it always comes back to that person who might screw you over.
There should just be a national reporting database for people who are unscrupulous and you can cross check them against that database.
What makes one person have morals and ethics and manners, and another... Have a complete lack of them?
I've always wondered that.
I guess that's just the way of the world... Some are good people, and some... Break things, kill people, do drugs... Who knows.
Anyway... SO I'm working on a better way to deal with all the junk in this house. I just keep doing one item at a time.
Right now I'm still cutting up this carpet. It's slow going, but I'm getting it in pieces.
Next I need to get rid of this super old big CRT TV. I need like a e-waste recycling service or something.
Although, my boss offered to come over with his truck and we'd load it in that and then carry it into work and put it with the work e-waste...
I don't like to mix business and personal though, that's my thing.
I like to keep work at work and my personal stuff at my personal stuff.
I think that's my thing with that.
I just think it's weird when work and personal things overlap. It feels like those two environments should always stay completely separate.
I don't know why, it just does.
Anyway, so... Hopefully I'll start to see more space around the house and then I can buy my drumset and work on my music area and my "study" area.
And then get some new furniture too like a nice couch to be able to lounge on and watch netflix.
The problem right now is this one cat just poops everywhere and another pukes. SO if I buy a couch, within a week it would have stains all over it and they would claw it up...
I can't even use the current one because it's not even a couch it's a futon but it's all gross and nasty.
I don't know, maybe I'll buy a second house that can be my non-cat house, with nicer things, and then I'll have this house that is just full of junk and cats.
I mean, those two cats ARE like 15/16 years old, so I suppose in the next few years... Things will just resolve themselves if you know what I mean. Cats have an average lifespan... So eventually, things will work themselves out. That sounds mean... But I'm just saying... I want a nice couch, and I can't have one because of the cats.
Annoying. Haha... Eh oh well.
Right now I'm not buying new stuff anyway, I'm in the process of clearing out.
Out with the old, not yet in with the new.
Weekend Edition: All The Blogposts
Most of the blog posts I think of never get written.
For every blog I write, I'll generally have 4 other blog posts pop into my mind.
It makes me kind of hate what I write.
But why? You ask...
That's easy to answer.
Because, a lot of the times the posts I actually end up writing, aren't what I really want to say. I mean, they are what I mean to say in a way, but I feel like it could be said better!
OR, alternatively... The post I decided to go with could be more on the negative side when I should have chosen something stupid or positive to post about.
It's kind of like there's always two things happening, the good thing, and the bad things...
Most news you read is about bad things... But most social media that we read is good things.
People tend to just keep bad news things on the low down and tell the world about good things.
There's a lot going on in my mind at all times.
Most people have a lot going on in their mind, and sometimes when you let things flow... You don't get the most coherent string of words that you exactly wanted to put down in that exact way.
But you don't get just that finely filtered "Oh that's fantastic news!" result that everyone seems to do.
It happens a lot of dinner party and holiday party things...
Very few people will just tell you like it is. My mom was an exception to that rule. She would say anything and everything instead of how most people put on that filter and only talk about the good things or things that are happy go lucky and are just general chatter.
How's the weather out there!
How about that unrelated sporting event?
I try to keep my blog more raw...
It probably makes me sound crazy to the people that read it. But, I do sometimes just write things and then delete it all, and then write something else.
It happens to me a lot. I write out posts, then delete them. Write out new ones.
My thing is though...
A) Why be fake and filter everything to be all roses and sunshine all the time?
Life isn't roses and sunshine the time.
B) Why should I sit here caring what people who read my blog might think of me? Just be me... And if people get all uppity about it... Then hey, that's at least the real me instead of a fake me.
I just think it's better to say things like they are. Be honest. Be open. Be real. Ramble on my friends.
The thing is, I just have TOO much to say... So... I have to pick and choose what to write about!
Sometimes I write stream of consciousness thoughts and sometimes it doesn't make sense. And sometimes it's witty banter, and sometimes it's not. As that one phrase goes, it is what it is what it isn't.
So there you have it! Behind the scenes on my blog.