How can you get a packrat to throw things out? I'm living with one.?
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I always live by the rule " IF I HAVENT USED IT IN THE LAST YEAR- I THROW IT OUT OR DONATE TO CHARITY"  I agree with u- keeping so much from the past is ridiculous!  Just keep a few things that really mean something to u.  Or you could always get her to box them up in water proof totes and have them stored in the atic, garage, or even a storage  facility!  Try to reach a compromise like that .  Tell them how u feel and see if they would be willing to do that.  Otherwise u may be stuck in a house full of crap and will never even be able to find the kids again!  lol
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Pick major junk, (one which needs 2 hands.) seperate it from rest\n\nthen seperate pricky /sticky/ stingy/smelly stuff.\nfeel like throwing throw em.\nNow dump evey thing back and close and shelve it. its good for another few months.
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Getting rid of my puppy
459142
Bin it and get a Q-Be!
463831
Put some toilet paper on top of it, not a lot, and flush. It will be gone before you know it.\nEither that or leave it there until it grows legs and walks out on its own.
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Invest in some Rubbermaid storage containers for your partner.  I guess the best thing to do would be to wash your own dishes after you cook.  By kicking her out of the kitchen, you may make her feel unwanted and there may be some resentment there.  I feel your pain.  I had a roommate that I love to death and he was pretty clumsy.  But you have to love the person more than you do the bakeware.
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I almost always throw it out. I also noticed at the post office where I pick up my mail on days when there is bulk mail the 3 garbage bins are filled to the top with it. I wonder who responds to this stuff? Some people must or they would stop sending it out. Junk mail that comes to me via e-mail I delete without even opening it.
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this happened to my friend as she cleaned out the cabinets in the kitchen and it would be the best thing to do.\n\nTake the boxes of instant mash potatoes, the powder form, and pour down sinks, (not sure about toilets) and then all the pipes fill with potatoes and it is really hard to get out, it is packed in there so tight as it expands when water is added. it was funny watching them clean it out with a spoon and having a crap load of potatoes everywhere.
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I think it's wrong to play the toilet paper roll like a slot machine and waste it on a single snot rocket. I'm sick of being stuck on the shitter without even one square because my kids refuse to use what's in the hamper. It's much easier to get boogers out of my son's socks than my skidmarks.
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Sounds like you've got an evil bitch of a land-lady, there. Get everyone in your apartment block to move out all at once, make her go bankrupt! LOL
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Utilize a quality cross cut shredder and dispose in black trash bag (or other suitable color) which is non distinguishable from the rest of your trash...better to place the bag in the middle of the trash can...preferably just below something really gross smelling to keep the casual looky lou's  away.
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Do you have a basement or attic you can keep her "treasures" in? If she has her own room she could keep what is neccesery to her and find a place to hang other keepsakes precious to her somewhere else so she can always look on those items and not feel like when she moved in you didn't just throw her belongings somewhere else. [Like a personal wall, room, all of that stuff] About the part of you might not take it anymore...you could go to a journal website or start a personal diary. Thats all I can think of but I am pretty sure someone has a better idea.
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make sure your garbage is where its suppose to be, make sure the bags are tied correctly.\n\n      you can also hand him a card with a $20 bill in it or maybe movie tickets inside or a gift certificate to a casual restaurant in your area  eg. tony toma's, apple bees,chili's
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My friend left hers in an apartment laundry in Albuquerque and went back to find "circles" cut out of the center of all of her bras...........lol....\n(that taught HER to not leave her clothes............)\n\nWhen you go to the laundry --- make a habit of chewing gum.......then when YOU have to remove their clothes... stick the gum on something and smash it down........perferably something that looks like it's in good condition......... maybe then, the jerk will quit walking away from his/her stuff.........\n\nI'm usually not this mean............but hey....it's not like I told you to put "poop" in there and smash..........\n.......or you could move to Texas and live with me --- I have my own washer and dryer...........and hell, I'd do your laundry for you!
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I really need to clean the litterbox out...
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If a person is in need of a furniture, sometimes people that just bought new furniture will leave their old furniture near the road for the trash pick-up to pick-up.   So you can walk around and see if anybody is throwing any furniture away and if you see something that you may need, go get your truck and pick it up and take it home.\n\nOne time, we sat out a microwave that was fried.   We were cooking something and the microwave started sparking like too much electricity was going through it.   You know when you have a 10V device and you try to run 20V into it.   What happens?   You are right, too much electricity goes through it and burns it up.   We sat that out near the trash, along with a 19 inch computer monitor that did not work, and someone came by and picked them up.   I'm glad that person could use those things.   I don't know what that person will use them for.  Maybe he knew somebody that recycled electronics and would give him like $5 for all that stuff.\n\nYou could also look in garbage cans, and garbage dumpsters.  Sometimes people throw good stuff away.  I once knew a person that found a baby doll missing one eye.  I'm sure that could be easily fixed.\n\nIf you are a smoker, instead of buying your own cigarettes, you could try bumming.  How bumming a cigarette works is, you go up to someone smoking and say, (look really desperate and tired) could I bum a cigarette off you?  Act like you are using your last bit of oxygen talking to the person.   If you don't like to bum, then you could look in ashtrays for cigarettes.   Most people won't finish a cigarette.  They take a some puffs and put it out, leaving a pretty good length to smoke.\n\nMy ideas of getting stuff for free.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\nGillette sent me a brand new razor about 6 years ago.  I still use it to this day.  So you might try writing to Gillette and asking them if they would send you a free razor.   Make the letter sound like you really want to support them.\n\nTrojan gives away free condoms to young people to show that they care about preventing youth pregnancies.   So you might want to write them and ask them for some condoms.\n\nIf you drink a lot of sodas, say Pepsi, save up your receipts and send a letter along with the receipts asking if they would send you some coupons or give you a free case of soda since you support them so heavily.\n\nI think baseball stadiums gives tickets away.  These tickets won't give you good seats.  You might need binoculars to enjoy the game.   I don't think the free seats will provide view of the big screen because you will be way up in the air right underneath the roof, so that roof might block your view a little bit.  Oh, and I don't think the food vendor person is going to walk all the way up there just to give you a hotdog and drink.  They serve only people closest to the field.
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Put it in a paper shredder :)