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We've been cleaning out stuff for a couple of months now. We have taken several pick up truck loads to the dump, given stuff to Goodwill, and given umpteen zillion VCR tapes and some furnature to some friends. We have also moved a lot of stuff to a storage facility and today packed a bunch of boxes with CDs, DVDs, electronics and linnen. I'll take them to the storage facility tomorrow.

We have lived in this house for 20 years this month. When we were in the military we moved about every two years so we never collected a bunch of stuff. How could we have collected so much stuff? Where has it all come from?
Hell, we aren't taking a lot of funature when we move as most of it is very old and needs to be replaced, but all this stuff....

So, what is the longest you have lived in the same house or apartment? Have you collected a lot of stuff? Are your closets, draws, etc bursting? Is your garage so full of stuff you can't put your car in it?

I lived in my parents house from age 7 to age 18.

Since then, I've lived in a dorm, moved home again, different dorm, moved home again, moved into this apartment. In about a week, I'll be moving to a new apartment.

So 11 years, then two years, then a series of 9 month and 3 month interludes.

I've lived in my parents house for 20 years, five months, and two days.

Aside from parental digs, I believe six years in one apartment is my longest stay...For a while, I would just move after a year or two, instead of, you know, cleaning the place...

I lived in my parents house from age 7 to age 18.

Since then, I've lived in a dorm, moved home again, different dorm, moved home again, moved into this apartment. In about a week, I'll be moving to a new apartment.

So 11 years, then two years, then a series of 9 month and 3 month interludes.

Wow! I'll bet you don't have any stuff then, unless your parents didn't throw away your stuff :eek: when you moved into the dorm the first time.

Seven years maybe?

5 - 7 - 4 - 0.5 - 1.5 - 1 - 0.5 - 0.25 - 0.25 - 1 - 2

That's about my life in a nutshell in how long I stayed in each place since I was born. (gives me enough stuff to fill three Nissan Micras full of boxes and bags).

I've lived in my parents house for 20 years, five months, and two days.

When are you going to become liberated and move all your stuff out? Man, I'll bet the garage is full.:tongue:

Wow! I'll bet you don't have any stuff then, unless your parents didn't throw away your stuff :eek: when you moved into the dorm the first time.

There are boxes of crap waiting to be thrown out from my freshman year...all the stuff my mother sent me to college with that I never used.

But no, I've really managed to not accumulate much crap. Lots of books and DVDs and such, but very little else. Makes moving a little more tolerable. Though, I long for the day that I find a place to stay for a while.

When are you going to become liberated and move all your stuff out? Man, I'll bet the garage is full.:tongue:I don't own many things. All the stuff in the garage is stuff my parents accumulated over the last 30 years. I can name every single thing I own off the top of my head.

I did live on my own for about a year, but within that time my rent went from $600 to $2,800. So I had to move back in with my parents.

I don't own many things. All the stuff in the garage is stuff my parents accumulated over the last 30 years. I can name every single thing I own off the top of my head.

I did live on my own for about a year, but within that time my rent went from $600 to $2,800. So I had to move back in with my parents.

Cost of living is very high in New York. You should consider moving out of the Northeast to someplace where the cost of living is more reasonable like Oklahoma or Louisiana.

Cost of living is very high in New York. You should consider moving out of the Northeast to someplace where the cost of living is more reasonable like Oklahoma or Louisiana.I would never in my life move to such vile states. But, besides my prejudice towards them, they also have lower wages, which off-sets any benefits with a lower cost of living. So I'm staying here.

Okay, since I moved out at 18 ... the longest I've been in any one place is 9 months when I moved back home last year. And I really don't have all that much.

all my life,i have liven in the same flat-thirteen years.

I have lived at my current residence (give or take) 12 years. When I was in college I had a different apartment but most of my stuff was still where it is today and its was my mailing address for that time so I don't know if its considered not living there. As for stuff, I own perhaps 30 DvDs no more than 10 videogames and my bedding and clothes

I think perhaps 5 or 6 years, it was before I turned 13 and I hardly remember much about back then. Since I moved out I've moved on average once a year, a couple times across town, a few times overseas.

Oh, and I keep the amount of crap I own to a minimum, largely because I move so often.

With my parents from 0 to 18. Then into my first place at uni for a year. I miss that place. In 2 weeks I move into a new flat with some friends where I should be living for at least 2 years.

The longest I've ever remained in one place was 6 and a half years, but that was almost 1/3rd of my life. I hope never to remain in the same place for more than a decade, though, as that would get horribly boring.

We've been cleaning out stuff for a couple of months now. We have taken several pick up truck loads to the dump, given stuff to Goodwill, and given umpteen zillion VCR tapes and some furnature to some friends. We have also moved a lot of stuff to a storage facility and today packed a bunch of boxes with CDs, DVDs, electronics and linnen. I'll take them to the storage facility tomorrow.

We have lived in this house for 20 years this month. When we were in the military we moved about every two years so we never collected a bunch of stuff. How could we have collected so much stuff? Where has it all come from?
Hell, we aren't taking a lot of funature when we move as most of it is very old and needs to be replaced, but all this stuff....

So, what is the longest you have lived in the same house or apartment? Have you collected a lot of stuff? Are your closets, draws, etc bursting? Is your garage so full of stuff you can't put your car in it?

8 years. And we have so much crap like you wouldn't believe.

2 - 2.5 - 3.5 - 1.25 - 7.75 - .75 - .75 - 1 (so far)

so, 7.75 years...

I have moved more than a dozen times. I think the longest tenure at any one place would have to have been south Everett (WA) at 5 years, and then...holy shitballs...Bismarck (ND), at three years. Everyplace else was less than three years.

I've lived in the same house my entire life (21 years), excluding the very beginning (at the local hospital) and the last few school years (in the dorms at college and then at a shitty rental during the school year).

My family has lived in this house for 35 years. We have a lot of stuff, but it's very orderly, since we have an organized basement, an attic (as of about four years ago) and a garage (since about six years ago).

We tend not to buy new stuff very often now, since we have pretty much everything that's needed.

My grandmother is 82 and has lived in the same house all but ten years of her life. It's very neat and tidy though.

The longest I've ever remained in one place was 6 and a half years, but that was almost 1/3rd of my life. I hope never to remain in the same place for more than a decade, though, as that would get horribly boring.

Not really. Boredom sets into the boring mind.

Wow! I'll bet you don't have any stuff then, unless your parents didn't throw away your stuff :eek: when you moved into the dorm the first time.

Why would they do that?

I lived with my parents for 22 years, lived in a dorm for 2 years, and I'm now moving into my first real apartment. I'll be living there for 2.5 years, and then it's onto a real house! :)

15 years in my room at home, and returned after a year abroad for another 3.
Now it's 10 years in the same apartment.

I'm not much of a moving person. I guess it's because of all my stuff...

George Carlin knows what I'm talking about: Stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcGY).

15 years in my room at home, and returned after a year abroad for another 3.
Now it's 10 years in the same apartment.

I'm not much of a moving person. I guess it's because of all my stuff...

George Carlin knows what I'm talking about: Stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcGY).

wierd thing is,i didn't hear of George Carlin before i came to NSG

Cost of living is very high in New York. You should consider moving out of the Northeast to someplace where the cost of living is more reasonable like Oklahoma or Louisiana.

if you call that living....

I've lived in this house for almost eleven years straight. It's the longest I've lived anywhere, and it's safe to say that it's time to move on.

Staying in one place for a long time isn't what's getting to me... It's the area I happen to live in, and the people I happen to live with (my dad and brother). There will be some level of guilt involved when I leave next year, but as they say, freedom isn't free.

The Northeast will be most excellent.

wierd thing is,i didn't hear of George Carlin before i came to NSG
I'd say it was good you joined then - if only for that reason. :tongue:

(Hope you checked YouTube for his stuff.)

if you call that living....

I sure as hell don't. I've had the misfortune of living in Texas most of my life, and I really shouldn't have to tell anyone that it's one hell of a shitty place... Unless you're born into money. But then it's still a shitty place, really.

I'm very, very glad to have come from a tourist town, and I'm even happier that people always think I'm from Jersey.

I'd say it was good you joined then - if only for that reason. :tongue:

(Hope you checked YouTube for his stuff.)

yeah,really funny guy.shame he died

if you call that living....

The cost of living is much lower in Oklahoma. But the catch is that you have to live in Oklahoma.

So, what is the longest you have lived in the same house or apartment? Have you collected a lot of stuff? Are your closets, draws, etc bursting? Is your garage so full of stuff you can't put your car in it?

19 yrs. lots of books, comics, LP's, VHS, Betas, toys, etc.

The cost of living is much lower in Oklahoma. But the catch is that you have to live in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is nothing piled on top of nothing. There are barely even any trees there.

If counting temporarily moving out (but not with all stuff), not much. If not counting, actually 28... But not in the basement, the house is large enough and intended to be inherited as long as it lasts. Still, I regret a bit that I didn't have and probably won't have a life of living in many different cities.

Growing up we moved about every 9 months (just long enough to get evicted) then when I got married we moved about every 2 years (job transfers for hubby) but the ghetto house where I didn't want to be......we managed to stay at for 4 years........bleh.

Hopefully this was our last move for a LONG TIME......because I refuse to do it again.

I just finished unpacking today (we moved in May!) and gave away 12 boxes of crap on freecycle. Oh, man, if I had purged better before we moved... :p Although I did give away 40 boxes and 10 peices of furniture while packing up the U-haul.

Neighbor "oh wow! that's a nice dresser"
Me "you want it? take it to your house"
Neighbor "you serious?"
Me "yep"

and so on.

Aside from my parents' house (In which I lived from the ages of 5 to 20), the longest I've ever lived anywhere was seven years. You can accumulate a lot of junk in seven years.

around 7 or 8 years

About seventeen years where I am. I was away a few times, for up to a year, but I kept the room so the stuff goes back that far.

I own insane quantities of useless stuff. Probably worth less than $3000 in total.

I got the jack with my habit of collecting stuff once, put everything I owned out on the street and went a-wandering. The only possessions I have from before that time are some paintings a friend kept, some diaries and photos and a cheap watch my sister gave me for a birthday. I might just do that again, the Stuff is driving me nuts.

After moving out of my parents', I spent three years in one shared house, and have recently moved to my own apartment. I collect stuff easily, mostly because

a) I love tiny things. And as they are tiny, and they aren't expensive, so I always delude myself that it's okay to buy them as it doesn't matter, neither financially nor storage-wise. Of course both add up like crazy.
b) I can be one sentimental kid, and I keep everything. I still have the pebbles I used to play with in 1997.
c) I'm nigh unable to throw away clothes.
d) I cannot bring myself to throw away anything that might possibly be of usage in some millennium or the other to come. Before my last move, a near fifth of my room was occupied by carton boxes of all shapes and sizes because "who knows when I might need a box, say, for sending something via postal services, and buying boxes is expensive!" I also have several purses from before the currency changed (in 2002, IIRC). They might come in handy if the currency ever changes back to a smaller format!


My latest move was into an apartment on the fourth floor, so I re-evaluated my stuff very carefully and donated two huge plastic sacks of clothes to charity, gave away some shoes, threw away all my boxes save, say, six, presented friends with half a box of books, and threw away about a box full of stuff. I still have the pebbles, but I threw away the little laughing plastic fish. I've recently been gifted with a plush elk who blares "Jingle Bells" at top volume when you tickle its belly, though, so all is good.

George Carlin knows what I'm talking about: Stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcGY).

Great! George really understood stuff.:)

The cost of living is much lower in Oklahoma. But the catch is that you have to live in Oklahoma.

Great comparison chart here.
Salary in Tulsa OK:
$54,000
Comparable salary in New York (Queens) NY:
$94,667.19

If you move from Tulsa OK to New York (Queens) NY...

Groceries will cost: 51.965% more
Housing will cost: 233.27% more
Utilities will cost: 45.353% more
Transportation will cost: 13.319% more
Healthcare will cost: 6.155% more

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html

Oklahoma is nothing piled on top of nothing. There are barely even any trees there.

You must have been to western Oklahoma, not eastern Oklahoma. Big difference between the two halves of the state.

Three minutes. Wherever I go, I leave a trail of forwarding addresses in my wake.

Great comparison chart here.
Salary in Tulsa OK:
$54,000
Comparable salary in New York (Queens) NY:
$94,667.19

If you move from Tulsa OK to New York (Queens) NY...

Groceries will cost: 51.965% more
Housing will cost: 233.27% more
Utilities will cost: 45.353% more
Transportation will cost: 13.319% more
Healthcare will cost: 6.155% more

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htmlSee, this is why I wouldn't move there. I just used it and I'd make 58% less money, and my expenses didn't decrease enough to make a noticeable impact on my lifestyle, so I'd be living the exact same way in either location. So given that, I'd rather live in New York.

See, this is why I wouldn't move there. I just used it and I'd make 58% less money, and my expenses didn't decrease enough to make a noticeable impact on my lifestyle, so I'd be living the exact same way in either location. So given that, I'd rather live in New York.

I think you would come out ahead. Housing, which takes up a lot of income is 233% less in Oklahoma. So, unless you are living at home you would have a significant reduction in your expenses. Also, food and utilities would go down by 50% another significant savings. And if you got a job making just 25% less than you currently do you would come out significantly ahead.

I compared where I live now with where I'm going in Louisiana and it comes out just about a wash. I'm not unhappy about that at all.

Oh well, must go soon. Need to move 8 or 9 boxes of stuff to the storage place.

Nope, I wouldn't:

Salary in Nassau County NY:
$25,000
Comparable salary in Tulsa OK:
$14,545.39

If you move from Nassau County NY to Tulsa OK...

Groceries will cost: 18.614% less
Housing will cost: 71.346% less
Utilities will cost: 30.39% less
Transportation will cost: 8.087% less
Healthcare will cost: 11.83% less

Hmm. I've moved around quite a bit. I think the longest I've been in one place is... maybe 5 or 6 years.

18 years.

So, what is the longest you have lived in the same house or apartment? Have you collected a lot of stuff? Are your closets, draws, etc bursting? Is your garage so full of stuff you can't put your car in it?

28 years, and holy shit, what I threw out/donated/still have to go through!
The next longest was 14 years.
The latest... three months.

Great! George really understood stuff.:)

Just reading your post made me think of George instantly. And he really knew his stuff, too! :)

Well, when I was a kid I lived in the same place between the ages of about one and a half and almost nine (so ~7 years there) and then we moved into a new place and I lived there until I was 18 (so ~9 years).

But since I've moved out on my own, my record is two years in the same house/apartment. Hopefully I'll be here longer, I'm sticking around for a PhD so I should at least be in town for like 5 years altogether and I really like my apartment so hopefully the rent will stay low enough for me to stay here.

But I do notice that I accumulate a lot of things if I stay in one place. I usually throw things out with each move, but I should really try doing this once a year just to keep the clutter low... or build more shelves to accommodate it all.

Great comparison chart here.
Salary in Tulsa OK:
$54,000
Comparable salary in New York (Queens) NY:
$94,667.19

If you move from Tulsa OK to New York (Queens) NY...

Groceries will cost: 51.965% more
Housing will cost: 233.27% more
Utilities will cost: 45.353% more
Transportation will cost: 13.319% more
Healthcare will cost: 6.155% more

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html

That's great and all, but money's not everything. The extra money I'd have wouldn't be nearly enough of a reward to have to live in a place like Oklahoma.

And I don't live in New York, lol, read my location.

It's like anything else. A nicer car costs more money than a cheap shitty car. Living here costs more money than living in Oklahoma.

Plus, in addition to having to live in Oklahoma, there'd be the travel expenses if I ever wanted to see my family.