There's always one member of the family that has to hang onto everything much to the horror of their partner. It's even worse when one of their children's marriage breaks up and their son sends things home to store in their garage
I know one family that is happening to at the moment and DH is not a happy chappy as his wife still has so much stuff from her Mum's place.
When we cleaned out my Mum's place for her to move into the nearby retirement village here, a lot of stuff was put on the footpath for a council pick-up. There was hardly a thing left for the council truck - in the area she used to live, it was gone in a flash. Here, we live in a cul-de-sac and any piles of good rubbish left for pick-up used to stay exactly as it was put although I've noticed of late that some chap has obviously been allowed to come around with his trailer and take what he wants. He has probably had to pay for the privilege of inside information as to where the day's pick ups will be. I was washing the car when he did it last time and not a word was said to me as he went about his business. He took a nice little bounty from our last pile.
When DH & I had a clear out from his place before we moved here, one person actually knocked on the door and asked if he could have the 2 bikes - he was going to make 1 decent bike from the 2. How refreshing that was - we were very impressed. With the tall fence DH's place had, we would have been none the wiser if he had just taken it.
