 Hi guys, I'm super excited that you've joined me today and the reason that we're having this conversation today is For the sheer fact that a lot of people have weight equipment inside their house or they have fitness equipment or gym equipment That I don't know. Maybe you're not using I mean is that possible? I started looking around my house and one of the reasons I did was because the studio that I'm in right now is Technically my weight room and as I started to look at the space that I was using I realized that the utilization of the space has changed and I know as we progress through life Sometimes things happen where our life does change and so what we did in the past is not what we're doing right now And so therefore we don't have the same need for hanging on to some of the same equipment For example as I was going through my weight room. I found one of these no not one of these you guys I'll have one right there's probably one tucked under You know a stash of stuff and probably just about everybody's home And I too fell victim of the infomercial or whatever it was that promised I was gonna have flat abs and you know all I got to do is just roll a few times a day and what have you So the the challenge for this is are you using it now? I've put together a series of images that I want to share with you today and I specifically chose these images Not to have really happy people that were showing lifestyle moments where they were spending more time with their Family and they were athletic and they were fit and all these things because that's what they do in advertising and in Advertising when you see fitness equipment and you see gym equipment The first inclination is to think and this is it's designed to do this. This is what advertising is all about It's designed to have you go Oh wait a second if I bought this piece of weight equipment Then I too would be fit and I would get to have fun with my family and then I would you know life is so much better and then we buy the equipment and we get at home and it ends up being something like this Oh, no, you guys for one of these two, right? If you guys have a pull-up bar that goes over a doorway in your house, right pull up bar in the notes I'm curious. Is it just me or I don't know Is there someone else out there that has a pull-up bar and then my question becomes how often do you use it? Are you using it now? Are you using it on a daily basis because if you are awesome great for you? I'm so happy for you. You have the right piece of equipment if you're not using it yet I want us to stop and just ask the question. Am I gonna use it? Am I gonna use that? I mean, let's be for real. Am I gonna use this? And if you are for real, then you use it awesome Let's put it on your calendar right now today today is this conversation We're either gonna use it or lose it Okay, so I want us to just take a look at some of the images that I have here And I'm gonna just let this play while we're having a conversation and I want you guys to ask your questions I want to walk through the different images with you And I want to have a conversation about do you have something like this in your house? Did you have a teenager or somebody that was in sports years ago? The National Alliance for Youth Sports says that students after the age of 13 stop playing sports 70% of kids stop playing sports after the age of 13 And so there are a lot of adult athletes But for the most part a lot of sedentary people are sitting around at home and they're not Using sports equipment like they once did so I'm curious today What what does your lifestyle look like and do you have things that are I don't know in your garage in your attic and a bedroom? I thought I had isolated the move of my weight room over to another smaller weight room in my house I did get rid of some weight equipment And in the process I was like, okay, I'm all organized and then what I found was long before There are still four rooms in my house for four rooms in my house That still have weight equipment that was just kind of like scattered all over or I've been storing it in different places And so am I gonna use it and this is the conversation I'm having right now I'm having it with myself But one of the things I discovered in my weight room as I started to downsize a little bit so I could use this as a Studio was I had a great big monster piece of weight equipment It's one of those big machines where you pull the pin and it's got all the free weights and you can lift weights and stuff But I wasn't using that machine the exact same exercises I was using that for I can do with free weights And so with a little stack of free weights I was able to downsize and just get rid of that whole entire unit that took up eight feet in one direction and nine feet And another that's a huge space in most homes And I was able to get rid of it from this very room that I'm in right now now across the room I had a great big industrial treadmill and one of the conversations I had to have with myself was am I using it now I love that treadmill and if we go back to the Decluttering 101 where they say does this spark joy and if it doesn't spark joy get rid of it this spark joy for me Okay, as a marathon runner and a triathlete I love my industrial treadmill it goes up to 12 miles per hour And it's really hard and very difficult to find a treadmill that goes it that fast and is that well built And the reason that I say well built is because it had it like a cushioned landing So that it was not like out running on the road where it's really tough on your skeletal frame But that when you landed it kind of cushioned your fall It was really awesome And then in addition to that it had the incline that went up and down And so if you start getting a kink in your back or your knees or something you just change the incline And suddenly it's like running on a rolling hill, which was so awesome And then the the last thing that I loved about that treadmill and it was expensive and it was hard to find But it had a 60 inch Plate on it So that if you start running and I've got really long legs when you start running Your stride then doesn't like slip off the end of the treadmill right So for me I had to decide do I want to get rid of that or do I want to keep it? But then I started looking at my lifestyle habits and this is my question for you Are your lifestyle habits right now conducive to you keeping that great big monster piece of equipment? And I say it's a monster piece of equipment because when I had this home built And here's a secret that I don't think most people know but when I had my home built The room that I'm using right now is my studio It was designed to be a weight equipment and so underneath the floor is the ceiling to the next room below me In that room, it's got a coffered ceiling and it's not just uh plates of wood I had it reinforced with steel rail road ties that are about this thick So that it would hold the weight equipment in that great big industrial treadmill as I was doing my training indoors, right? So this this house was built for that unit and then that unit was in here And it took a bunch of people to get it up here and we had to get a bunch of people to help us take it out But the reason I let it go is this What I'm doing right now in my personal life is I'm getting up every morning at the crack of dawn and I'm going Outside and I live in North Carolina where it's not frigid better winters where I have, you know Sub-zero winters or whatever. It's kind of like 60 degrees in the winter time And on a really really cold day it might be like 50 or something And so I'm still running outside year round And so what I thought in my head and I felt victim to one of those, you know fancy pictures of like Hey, you'll live forever and it has the great big handrails and you can use it as you get older for stability and all those things I just realized it was taking up too much space and I wasn't using it like I thought I was And so then I ended up selling it So a couple of options we have today you can sell You can donate and there are lots of different places that we can donate But we'll have those those questions and conversations. So I do want to jump over to our comments I know we've got a lot of people here and I'm super glad that you guys have joined me. Thanks so much Baboulas says thank you, Angela and says yes. I have one. I use it because I need Uh, I need to close doors Uh, the door sometimes and I took it down and I never put it back, of course Oh, this is the over the the door pull-up bar. Yes. I know I'm guilty of that myself I took it down when I moved something and then I hung it over the door rack on that door And so my pull-up bar then the door wouldn't close with that So I took the pull-up bar down and now I'm not using it and I'm looking for a different door in my house That would allow me to use that Anyway, if you guys want to jump on here and have a conversation with me, that would be awesome I see that heather has joined us today. Uh, heather if you are ready to jump in give us a thumbs up It's so good to see you again here. How are you today? Oh, you're on mute I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Do you have an over the door pull-up bar? I do it's in the garage Oh really? Yeah Not not hanging in the garage. It's on the garage floor Yeah What else do you what else do you have in your garage? Do you have any other pieces of equipment? Yes, I have a full Exercise machine. I have a stand-up boxing um It's kind of you know what they're called but The boxing bags like punching bags. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I still have punching punching bob. I saved bob Yeah And then I have punch yours or is it just in storage kind of? No, it was my son's and he he turned my whole garage into a gym and then he quit working at Okay, so you have a gym, but it's not news. Yes You know, can we talk about that for a second? sure um I went to visit some folks And they're in the 70s And when I got to their home, they said come look at our beautiful gym And they showed me their beautiful gym and it it rivaled A fitness center that you would see in a community neighborhood Where it had like the bow flex equipment and it had treadmills and elliptical equipment and free weights and The mini trampoline and it had all this stuff and it was awesome And I said which of you who in the house uses it and they're like, uh, well, you know, none of us and I was like Okay And they had spent years with their dream was to have this great big gym inside their home And they lived kind of out in the country So then they built this gym and it was awesome by every stretch of the imagination But by the time they got around to building it and decorating it and buying the equipment and all that stuff Everyone in the house had moved on from that phase of their life And I say that phase of their life because what had happened was either they'd had hip replacements or shoulder replacements or knee replacements or whatever And so the equipment that they were hoping they would one day use like way back when Now they were not in the physical shape to be able to use it. Does that make sense? Yes. Yes and so then Okay, now it just looks pretty and now they have to dust it and then that was my next question Like, oh, no, you've got all this weight equipment now You just have to dust it and clean it and and who does that right and so instead of saving You know some time and some energy and whatever now it had just created something else that now they had to Manage and take care of So I know lots of people you're not alone. These people are not alone. I am not alone I have I have like I said a bunch of equipment in my house. I'm not Using today And I kind of either need to start using it or I need to lose it right Yeah, I was kind of surprised at everything that I found in the garage I I found a dance bag that had dance shoes from when my daughter was like nine And she's almost 17 now. So I don't know why I still have it. It doesn't fit and she doesn't dance anymore so but I also found like um skateboards that my You know 25 year old used to use when he was 13 But I don't know why I still have them, but he's like, oh, no, those are memories. So I just keep it and Nobody's skateboarding at my house Like I don't know why it's still there and like roller skates and Um roller blades nobody in my house uses those. Why do we still have them? I don't know So will you will you at some point? Will you use them again or Has everybody kind of passed that phase of their their existence? Everybody has definitely passed that phase except for like my granddaughter But I'm not talking about any of her stuff because she actively uses it. It's just all my grown kids I have all of their stuff still And I know that we're not going to use it. So I don't know Well, you know, it's an interesting uh, judy just jumped in hey judy It's good to see you and uh robin rector says hi, Angela not related to sports needed advice on a wooden A wooden baseboards and cleaning log cabin. Um, so robin, that's an awesome question And thank you so much for asking. Um, I would love to answer that in the questions below after this video So that um, I can give you the proper attention that you you need to figure out what exactly you're looking for there Um, so as far as what we're doing in our lives right now I know that um at a certain point of life a lot of people will downsize their homes And then they kind of like move to a smaller home or a home that doesn't have You know, two or three stories in it or what have you and in looking at those kinds of homes because right now Both my husband and myself Our parents are at that age where they're now looking for the no stair homes, right? They're they're in smaller homes And in looking at those kind of homes one of the things that is Alluring to them is oh this neighborhood has a fitness center in it You know, we could go down and we could use the gym and the pool and the bachi ball and all that stuff But then the question is are you actually going to use it? Because if you are going to use it, you don't need to take any of your sports equipment with you, right? One of the conversations was would you take a treadmill with you to the new house? The answer is no not at all if three doors down There's a fitness center that has a treadmill in it that if you put on your walking shoes And you were to walk, you know 100 feet or 100 yards You could access that and then you don't need to store that and clean it and have it take up space in your home And so there are a lot of options as we get older And I know some of the folks that are in physical therapy and they have had surgeries and stuff like that They're using different types of equipment where they're using like stretch bands instead of free weights Does that make sense? Yeah, it's just a different kind of exercise than maybe what they've done in the past It takes up a lot less room to Using the bands and stuff instead of the big free weights If you look at the picture right now, there's a little stair stepper I too had one of these and it promised that I was going to have like a great butt and great legs and all this stuff And I put it inside my weight room in front of a tv because in my head I was going to like watch tv when I was like doing that physical exercise But my habits here's the weird part. I don't watch tv and so I didn't ever find a time when I was just going to watch tv And then if I had a time I was going to exercise instead of getting on a little stair machine My exercise was really i'm going to be jumping on the mini tramper I'm going to be out jogging or doing something else. That's not just the stair stepping So I never used it very much at all And so that was one of the easiest things for me to give away because as I started looking at the I don't know. Maybe the the possible uses I I realized that one of the reasons I had purchased all the equipment that I had purchased was because of the advertising And because of what it promised, but it never explained how much work it was going to be and how much physical labor and how much You know, are you really going to sit in front of the tv and and do this? I know at one particular time of our marriage We had the exercise bike the electric exercise bike that plugs into the wall and it tracks your Speed and your distance and it has rolling hills and all that stuff And we're going to do that while we're watching tv And I find I shouldn't tell that I I shouldn't confess this But if I am watching tv because we do have dinner and a movie night once a week I am so guilty of like bringing my laptop And I'm like answering emails and youtube comments and stuff like that while the tv is going on in the background And so I I'm not I'm not exercising like I'm supposed to be if that was the goal Right. Yeah So I have to I have to really take a serious look and it's one of the things that I'm hoping That we can do today and it's the reason that I'm looking at some swim equipment here I've been a swimmer for years I swam all through my teens through my 20s through my 30s through my 40s. I still have my swim equipment But I mean, I've got a swimming pool. That's a couple doors down in our community center And I I haven't been there at all this year, you know, I belong to a fitness center and I haven't been there at all this year Um, I have been I kind of did not go during covet and then since covet. I'm still paying for my membership But um since covet. I've just been out jogging every day. I find that it's not You know, my my schedule got busy And so to drive to the gym and to take time out of the schedule and then shower at the gym and all that stuff It's an extra hour or two out of my day that I don't have and I'm really lucky to squeeze in like a 45 minute workout in the morning And then come back to my own house and just shower and we're done So my my habits have changed and I know a lot of people's hung up Um robin says donate all uh donate all that to a youth or to a rehab thrift store Here they'll come and get it and that's true. Thank you robin for bringing that up That is so true so many places will take your equipment and then also we have the facebook Marketplace and we have next door as a place where you can Just give it away if you want one of the things that we've done in the past for home equipment and for gym equipment and for Things that we find in the closets and especially the garages. We're going through some of this stuff I say the garage. I'm looking at these golf clubs and I have a set of golf clubs out in my garage right now That brand new set of golf clubs brand new golf bag I've used them once somebody gave them to me as a gift because they said that business people Do business on the golf course and so they gifted me this really nice set of golf clubs and their callaways I mean, they're they're nice. I should sell them and I hung on to them for 20 years Because one day I don't know what one day I was going to go take golf lessons and I was going to go on the golf course And do business, you know what I mean? And now I have I have three sets of golf clubs out of my garage right now And exactly zero of them are being used my husband used to golf and then when my business got busy He started taking over some of my tasks. I outsource them to my husband I know right and then he started not golfing because he was doing my tasks And so thank goodness and I'm so blessed that he's helping me But because our life has changed I have three Brand new sets of golf clubs that are not being used at all and I need to either sell them or give them away It's just you know Why why are we hanging on to this? I don't know. It's it's something to Golf clubs are evidently really hard to get rid of like people get an attachment to them My husband has played golf maybe twice in our entire marriage yet. He moved This humongous bag of golf clubs Five different times to different things Never having used it and finally just like a week ago I was like I'm donating these I'm getting rid of them and he was like, but they were so expensive That matter because you're not using it. So Yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying I'm looking here at um a baseball net and I know that there are a lot of a lot of people that have hung on to Sports equipment from when their kids were in school And I know right now I'm guilty of having a baseball net from when my husband was in high school And now we're in the 50s. We're not he's not ever going back to that high school again He's not ever going to be playing that ball again And I asked are you ever going to play again? He said, oh, yes when I retire I'm going to play softball. I'm going to play like with one of those those old men's clubs where all the guys get together and in one of the the active retirement communities He goes, sure I'm going to play again Okay, so my question is they're going to use the old mitt that you used back when you were in high school Or are you going to buy something new that you know is more accommodating to to you now? It's probably still good It would probably still last but it probably has lost some of its zest or maybe it needs I don't know leather reconditioning or something, you know what I mean Is he is he really going to use the same ball bat and mitt that he used back in high school? probably not You know So is it time and can we say goodbye to here's we're looking at some hockey equipment Is that person going to play hockey again and use that same equipment? And if they were to go with the new club, they might have I don't know new colors or something You know So do we do we need to keep all the stuff that we have and what in your house? Can you get rid of so I'm going to ask you Heather? I'm looking at the trampoline here Do you guys have? Anything that you know off the top of your head you're never going to use again that you could I don't know let go off definitely, I I could get rid of the entire you know bow flex and the The boxing thing I could get rid of all of that. I would be fine getting rid of the skateboards and the skates and That I mean like we don't use any of them and and none of them were super expensive. So I don't know why we're keeping them But we it did bring up a point to me though my daughter played softballs from four until 16 And softball bats are expensive like you're talking 500 plus dollars So when you get one and then she decides not to play anymore, well, we have six of them And so my husband's like, oh, no, I can't just get rid of those those were way too expensive But she's never playing ball again So let's give it to someone who can use it because they are still good And the last point I wanted to make was there is a place near us that only sells used Sports equipment and then we'll buy your sports equipment from you And or you can get it like on credit and use it there or whatever but That's that's an easy way instead of having to you know, do the marketplace where you have to constantly talk to people and Like you can go there and just take your stuff and they'll tell you what they're going to give it to you for or give you for it and Is that is that consignment where you give it to them and then when they sell it They pay you or do they pay you up front for it for it like they just buy it from you and then write you a check Yeah, they just buy it straight from you with in the store that I'm talking about I don't know about all of them But and the one that we go to we just and like we used it a lot for when my daughter was playing softball She would outgrow a bat Well, we could take the bat was still very expensive bat and traded in on a bigger bat that you know is Is a nice bat. So it's a it's a good option for sure Well, you know, it's interesting because I have a lot of the swimming gear that I used for years when I was swimming as just for Exercise I swam competitively and then I swam as a triathlete And I saved like my kickboards and my pullboys and my goggles and my swim caps and all that stuff The swim cap and the goggles I could hang on to because if I were to go down to either the gym that I remember of Or go to the neighborhood pool, then I would use those again What's interesting about my situation is while I've saved all of those things the fins the the pullboys all that stuff When yet when I go to the gym, they have all of their own sets of that And so then I have to say we'll do then I bring mine because now it's just kind of like duplicating the effort Because they already have stuff that they clean and sanitize every day And so why don't I just use theirs and not you know Slap all my stuff all around because now I'm storing it. I'm I'm putting it in the car Oh, I forgot something. You know what I mean? It's just they already have it all there I just go and I use theirs and that's part of my membership And so is it possible that maybe we have duplicates of stuff and we can like you said either trade it into a store like that or I don't know start using it For my neighborhood pool if I was going to use my pullboy and my kickboards and all that stuff That would be the place to do it because they don't have that equipment at my neighborhood pool And so if I was going to use the pool that makes sense to keep it But if I'm not going to use it I need to be really honest with myself moving forward What does my lifestyle look like is it possible that I'm going to use it if it's not possible And that's kind of not where I am in my life right now How much is it going to cost like you said how much is it going to cost to replace that And if I was going to go buy a new kickboard, what am I going to spend $21 or something for a new one Or check it out I could go to the sports store that you mentioned and I could I could get something like that Right A lot of students That they're required by their school to have certain pieces of equipment and stuff like that And I know that it's really expensive for a lot of families to try to get the sports equipment for their kids So that their kids can play sports and if there was a way like there was a trading program Or there was a place that said hey, we sponsor, you know kids that need a baseball or kids that need a bat or a mitt or whatever And they could use your your equipment Then that would make a lot of sense to to see if you could donate it to a place like that And I don't know I would have to check but I don't know if you run a business If some of that's tax deductible if you used it for your business probably yes And that's probably for personal use probably not so I don't I don't know how that works Um if you earn money from it by selling it I guess that would be considered income and you would still have to pay taxes on that You know, I don't know how all that works I know that we do in in the decluttering space. We just give a lot of stuff away One of the the most successful things that we've done is just to take a picture of it And then put it at the end of the driveway a picture of the mailbox and like the house behind it So, you know that you're at the right house put it in a box take a picture of that and then just say Hey, this is at the end of my driveway first come first serve and then people can come Take it if they want or if they could use it for their kids, you know Um Yeah, I've done that in the past too With donating my daughter's softball stuff as she outgrew it I would donate it to An organization that is helping kids Play sports because it is insanely expensive and not only just play but then all of your equipment So I think that that would make me feel better about getting rid of it If I knew I was giving it to someone that really could use it I see that sally has joined us sally. Um, if you're ready to join us on camera give us a thumbs up Thumbs up. It's good to see you again How are you? Good, how are you? I know welcome back. Yes So we're we're talking about sports and sports equipment today. I'm looking at some ice skates. Did you ever ice skate? Uh, yes, but I'm no good. I'm really bad at it I went once and I went with my nieces and They like grabbed me like hey come on out on the ice and my feet slid out from underneath me And I landed on the ice like on my butt and like it I felt like it broke my spine I couldn't I couldn't move they had to like haul me off the ice and I couldn't move for like a week I hurt so bad. Oh, wow. I never went again So, yeah, I only went few times my same thing. I have to like hold somebody had to hold me I had to hold the railing and yep. I fall down multiple times Yeah, it hurt. Yes, because the eye is really hard to surface So, um, do you have do you have any, um, extra weight equipment in your house or fitness equipment or gym equipment? I'm looking at one of these uh, little mini tramps and that one piece of equipment This this little mini tramp that you're seeing right now That is the one piece of equipment that if I had to give everything else away. That is the one piece I would keep I use that I've got uh, I had at one time four of them in different rooms of my house I now only have two but I use them probably No lie 10 to 12 times a day And so I use them all the time and it might just be a two minutes here and two minutes here and five minutes here But like if I ever feel like I'm kind of like falling asleep or I'm just kind of lethargic I'll bounce for a couple minutes and it kind of like wakes me up again and gets blood circulating through my body And it's really a great exercise. So that one piece of equipment you cannot pry out of my out of my fingers Nice I don't have any What's the exercise equipment much in my house, but I do have bicycles basketball But the kids were young. They were using it So as the older the basketball the thing like that and the bicycle they don't really use it anymore So I give to a lot of friends that have younger kids Then they make use of that. So that that's what I do. I do not really donate I kind of give it to friends family strength Um, let me ask you a question Because I would like to donate something and give it away too And I don't know where to give it because it's not really a piece of weight equipment But it kind of is My husband was watching this ad on tv or something and he got really excited because they have these chairs That you sit on that have a great big ball that looks something like this Except this is the ball and so you'll see next to my head how big it is Um, it's not that big and it fits on Just this little tiny thing that sits on the floor And so if I were to sit on it, I'm not tall enough to sit up at any any desk And so it's like the desk would come up like to my nose So I couldn't like, you know, tie up with my arms up here like this It was just too close to the floor always and I don't know if you can see this Let me see if I can make the screen big for just a second um If you can see this like it has a whole bunch of dust on it like how scary is that right? I just went and I found this and I pulled it out. I'm like, oh my gosh. Look at all that dust I I haven't I haven't dusted this in a long time because I'm not using it And so I'd like to give it away But I think instead of it being for an adult like me I think it was really for a child that like one of those play desks And so it's not really a piece of weight equipment and oddly enough I've never used it because it was the wrong size And so it's been sitting in the background like off off site where nobody ever goes there anymore to to use it And so it's just sitting there now That's one thing that I could get rid of is this cool little chair that's supposed to give you like good back support and stuff but I don't um I don't know Heather Do you think that's something that they would they would take at one of those stores? I know robin says, uh, I think that store is played again where she lives And uh kurt and sunshine says play it again in california as well. So that's a that's a good, um You can tie a knot in a mesh tube or a mesh bag Hang on I lost that comment Um for soccer balls. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a great way to save those um And judy says you reminded me that I have two water belts that help you float and haven't used them in years The ymca has them. Yeah There's there's a lot of stuff like that and I'm finding I'm finding the honest conversations are kind of what is um Making us take a look differently at the stuff that we have I know as we go through a lot of our kids stuff Um sally, do you have anything? I know you've mentioned before that your your kids are moving away Do you have any of their stuff that they're not using that you're hanging on to? Um Before yes, I always think like one day they maybe will want to play again Or I don't know why I keep it really to say they're growing up. They're not using it Yeah, I mean I've been slowly giving it away. Like especially like the beach stuff like the beach tiny small beach chair ball A frisbee What all the water gun they used to play when they younger, you know, they put water those things Yeah, I slowly giving away any of my friend. They don't want it. I kind of donate it away Let the ball that you just show you can ask school I think some elementary school feature they take it they put in the classroom for the kids to play on On the the downtime or thing like that. You can ask them. I know some classes some feature take that The ball that you just showed Um, I don't know. Um, Eileen says they use the balls and physical therapy, which um Is awesome and that's a great way if you're going to keep it for physical therapy What I might do because I don't I don't have any need myself for using it right now as far as physical therapy goes Because I didn't have any surgery or anything and I wouldn't use it in my regular exercising because it's so small But I might be able to find somebody and that's great Eileen. Thank you for recommending that Somebody that might be able to use that immediately just um and give it to them You hope that's a great idea So, uh in looking in looking at the stuff that we have It's also important to say what am I going to use and do I need something that I don't have Because one of the the purposes of giving something away Is that someone who needs it could use it? Is there something that you need like maybe there's a person who needs a physical therapy ball right now? And instead of them going out and buying one and spending money that could be used for another part of their Their, you know, family bills or whatever they could put a note maybe on next door or on You know facebook marketplace and they could say hey, I'm having surgery Is there anybody that has an extra fitness ball or something that I could use because I would gladly give mine to them directly I know that my little sister had a foot surgery And she needed one of the they're like little scooters, but you kneel on it instead of standing on it And in the process of doing that, um, she needed one of those little scooters And I don't know how much it was but she didn't have the money for it And so she put an ad on the on the next door or the facebook marketplace. I'm not sure which one it was But um, she was asking is there anybody that's had this particular surgery that has that little wheelie cart For me to get around and somebody within like 11 minutes had one at her door And it was somebody in the neighborhood that that had one They were like, yeah, I've got one that's just sitting here and because they'd already gone through the physical therapy and stuff They were able to then just give it to her So I'm wondering if that's a possibility as well And oftentimes and I'm glad that you brought that up Heather about finding somebody that could use it and um You know if you were going to give it away if you're going to sell it Finding somebody that could then use that Right now so that it would feel less of a pain that I spent all this money Like you said your husband spent the money on the golf clubs and then felt bad because He hadn't got a chance to use them or something, you know Yeah, he's got two tennis rackets in his office and he doesn't play tennis either. So like he He's part of the problem, but I know one time I was very excited about Cleaning and organizing my garage and I went out and spent all this money on like hanging thing And you know the peg boards and but all this stuff to to fix the garage up And all that I really did with it was store stuff that I didn't need in the first place like it held my basketball and the soccer ball But we do not use those so why am I paying for something to organize stuff? I don't need So I'm gonna I'm gonna work on this for sure You brought up a really interesting point and thank you for bringing that up because I remember Being in the house cleaning industry for 30 years We went into a lot of people's homes and we would help them organize and declutter some of their home And we would help them, you know find places for things and oftentimes when we would get to people's houses What they were asking for is not what they needed But you want to honor their request because maybe that's what they think they need One of the things that they were requesting is can you help me find a space for this stuff? And we ended up putting up a lot of shelves and finding baskets and bins and trying to put those over the Car garage holders and things like that so that we could Accommodate the storage of the stuff that they're never going to use again And then the bigger conversation becomes Is this going to go in a storage unit? Is this going to take up space that you could be storing something else in your home? Is this something that you're ever going to use again? And why why are we trying to find a place for it when the? Exactly I don't know where Angela went, but yes, I feel that exact same way. I have Just so many things in the garage that I know we're not going to use and I don't know what to do with and But it seems like some things we get like emotionally attached to I'm all by myself now But anyway, I'll talk to myself for a second So I have so many things that I don't need and I think we get emotionally attached to it. My daughter will be like I hit a you know a grand slam with that bad. I can't get rid of it and Your grand slam still happened whether or not you still have that bad or you don't and um I've even noticed silly little things like little gadgets That are supposed to help me track things or like I have all of those and I don't track. I don't track anything like I Maybe I should but I don't I don't track anything so yeah, it's It's definitely something that I could could get rid of and feel okay with not feel too much anxiety about Yeah, same with me. Can you hear me? I can hear you I cannot see myself. Yeah, I'm the same way. I mean keeping stuff like the kids grow up I know that nobody use it. It'd be sitting there And I don't know why I just like I didn't give it away. I don't know why it's taking up space in garage in the house in the closet Yeah, so we had to I mean to move on we had to move on like it's okay to give away. I just don't know why I'm not like I get that that bike is really really cute and it's pink and purple and yes Eventually if I saved it long enough my granddaughter would use it But I can get her a new bicycle or another used bicycle. I don't have to keep that one for 10 years When my um when my husband's parents moved because we're talking about moving to a smaller house When they moved to a smaller house one of the things that they requested is because could you guys come over and collect All of this stuff that we've been saving for you for the last 30 or 40 years and when we went to their house Underneath their house because I had like this really tall crawl space that you could walk underneath We found bicycles that my husband had driven with his brother when they were like three and four years old And because they'd been under the house now they had cobwebs and they were rusty and like the the stuff had been chunked in on top of it So like the frames were bent and like now nobody can use it at all It's like literally junk and then there was a half of a swimming pool and I'm like, oh my gosh there's a half of a swimming pool It was one of those plastic ones like it was like that you fell up with the garden hose and so I guess Stuff had been put in on top of it and cut it in half and then somebody going through stuff trying to move Something and make space like pulled half of it out and threw it away But I mean like there was half of a swimming pool and I'm like where's the other half, right? But of course it's never going to hold water again and so can we go ahead and get permission to let go of that stuff and so I I love this conversation and this is not a topic that I picked But because this was submitted to us today It really forced me to then start looking at the stuff in my house And I was I was already going through my my my gym area because I renovated my studio but in doing that I ran into a lot of things like for example, I have this um set of teeter boots. Have you guys seen these? These are Upside down boots you hook them on over your calf like this goes around your calf And then you strap these on over your leg and then this part right here hangs upside down like you put it on a a bench Okay I don't think I've ever seen those before. Yeah, me too. It's unusual, but um Yeah, I was just looking through things this morning and I was like It's it's kind of amazing how much stuff we we still have that we don't use and some of it still does look brand new and like for instance, someone gave my um my oldest son some Rollerblades for Christmas. Well, he did use to rollerblade when he was like 12 But he's never rollerbladed again. So I I don't know why we're still keeping those other than Oh, well someone gave us those and so You feel bad about getting rid of them because someone gave them to you Yes, yes, I do. Yes Talking about that. Yeah, I still have a pair that my key used to have no I mean the size nobody can wear is smaller size is sitting in the garage. Yeah, I probably forget about that Yes, I do have those two Yeah, I think that we keep I don't know why I don't know in one question I had for Angela when she comes back I'm so curious what everyone else is doing with all of their trophies Or their ribbon, you know, oh, yes My daughter would win these big ribbons and the thing that hung down was like, you know this bit And she's got probably 40 of them. What do you do with those? What do you do with? You know, my son has a a swimming trophy from when he was 12 Why do we keep those like I don't I don't understand I don't know what everybody else is doing with them or other people like putting them out and decorating with them or I don't know I used to decorate because when they were young they play basketball They play stuff and they have all trophy regardless. You're good or not here. They give you so you have a lot You'll collect that so I used to decorate them But as I get older it's like why so now you're all in the boxes I feel like difficult to throw away because like kind of achievement I mean for them like how to throw away their name is there like oh, I should keep them But then they feel like they don't want it So you'll get my house in the future. Yeah, so through what should we do with them those things And some of mine are like just participation trophies like where my child had played something and didn't do necessarily very good So he doesn't have his name on it or anything. It just would say you participated. Yeah. Why did you keep that? Yeah, I know I do know though that you can take those little metal name tags that are on or um On the trophies And then you could like glue them to something or you could put them like in a picture frame and that would be a lot less space Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Yes. I never thought about that. Yeah Think that we keep And then any other equipment else in my house, let me think I kind of just jump in I missed the first half So I kind of try to think what do I have? I know I have a lot of things sitting around We just have to Go to open the closet dig it out or open the boxes. Oh, I have this and nobody used it Have you ever noticed how many people have swing sets like for kids in their backyard? And their kids have kids and don't come around or have moved off or yes Don't start to fall apart in the backyard and it's like we still are just too afraid to get rid of it Hey guys, um, I I I appreciate you carrying on as it turns out I I got caught in some huge technical difficulties. So the cool part is the technical difficulties have not left us. They're still here I'm in it. I'm in a different location now. I actually took over Parker's set up and Parker is our showrunner He does all the behind the scenes stuff and keeps all of our lights and our Cameras and everything working properly. And so in my malfunction, I like ran over to his station I'm like, hey, can I have your spot? So I'm in his spot today. So thank you so much Parker for for having a backup for me This was awesome Did you hear what I was saying? I totally got cut off I don't know what happened something glitched on my system and I it just totally bumped me out And I didn't think it could bump me out of my own show and it did like When you left I was surprised that we stayed But one of the questions that I had for you and and everyone else is what you do with all of these trophies that your kids have gotten their entire lives and And why you kept them and you know like my daughter used to wear When these big huge metal ones and they were on this thing and I used to have a shelf for each kid when they were younger Of all of their stuff, but that's been long ago And then they take up so much room and half of them are just like participation trophies So I don't even know why we kept them But I so what did you do with them? Well, I put them back in the box and put them back in the box Back in the attic, but I did get an idea of taking the little name tags off the metal plate that actually says their name Oh, great idea I mean you could like glue it onto you know a canvas or put it in a picture frame or and it would take up so much less space But you still have that memory Yeah That's a great idea. Yeah And so is that is that also what you did sally you said you did something similar No, yes, I put in the boxes. Like I don't know what to do with them. I went they were younger I used to display them because you proud the kids achieve something Why not but as the older nobody care and so we sit in the box Nobody use it. Nobody look at it. Nobody ask So yeah, Heather give a great idea. You can take out the plaque and then put on the picture frame or something At least you can hang it up with you know individually or take a lot less space Yeah, yeah Robin ricker says if a trophy has a name tag on it pop it off donate the trophy to a rec league You can do one plaque for the tags that is uh, that's a great idea I'm so glad you guys brought that up because I had never thought of that As far as taking the tag off and re donating that that trophy because those trophies are expensive I never thought about Yeah donating a trophy, but I can definitely do that. Yeah, but here's the thing they don't get a lot of use right It's given to someone and so like of course, they're a germs on it or whatever But the house cleaner comes or the mom wipes it off from time to time to keep it dust free and it just sits there It like it doesn't get any use at all. And so they're practically brand new When you were to donate them even years later because it's made of what plastic and Yeah, it's still it still look new. Yeah Um, I know for myself personally because when I was young I was very competitive in sports And I had a lot of trophies and I don't know what I was going to do with all of them But I had a lot Um, I joined a fitness center and the fitness center was new and the new fitness center had like all of these trophy cases That they had purchased for the fitness center But because it was a new fitness center there were no leagues or anything that had already signed up with them And there were no trophies. So they had these empty trophy cases So I went to the the owner of the fitness center and I said hey listen I've got a bunch of trophies and right now it looks like your fitness center is not all that great because you don't have Any trophies and nobody won anything Can I donate all of my trophies to you and you can put them in your trophy shelf? And then it looks like somebody did something here at your fitness center He's like that is a great idea and I had really tall ones and little ones and I had ones that had ribbons And I had a whole stash of like I ran 29 marathons And I had all of these medallions and ribbons and whatever, you know And so I had I don't know why but like this one was like a shrine I shouldn't even confess this is horrible you guys But I had like the tags from like my road races and stuff like that I had framed some of them. So they had like this matted frame and then like this glass always is so arrogant now that I think about it Um, I had all this stuff. So I took it over and I said pick out what you want and they took all of it And so they you know, they and it didn't have my name on it or anything It was just like a race number from a race And so they had all these different race numbers and then they had trophies from different events and some of the the trophies I remember like the Kiowa island marathon It was a great big monster bronze Pelican because like there are a lot of pelicans on that island And so um, it was this great big monster pelican or whatever Doesn't mean anything to anyone except somebody that ran that race But it was really cool and it filled up the whole display wall and now it looked like this fitness center Had a whole bunch going on and people were winning awards and I got rid of all of it That's a great idea they still take it and yeah, I mean kind of win-win situation You still can go and look at it, you know, it's yours Yeah, and then they gain something for people to look at it Yeah, well and the point wasn't for it to be my shrine The point was just I was going to get rid of it And I didn't really know who would take it or for what reason but I knew they had all these empty trophy cases They just looked weird you walk in and everything and the lights were on and everything and I'm like All I'm seeing is dust You guys want to fill that up with something All right, so before we go today, um Heather What is one piece of weight equipment that you are going to keep and I I say weight equipment fitness equipment It could be a yoga mat. It could be a bounce ball. It could be Something that you have right now that you've decided to keep what what one thing are you going to keep and use? I'm not very athletic anymore. So I don't think I'll be keeping any of it I think I'm yeah, I think I'm gonna donate it and You know if there's something that maybe I could could sell possibly but I think that it would make my garage about 50% Empty if I would just get rid of this stuff but one of the things that um that sally and I were talking about is that Almost everyone when you drive through an older neighborhood like an established neighborhood They'll have swing sets just out in their backyard that are just rotting and falling down Yeah, and you they people just keep them forever. It's like once you get a swing set you can't get rid of it and Is that because they're saving it you think for grandkids or is it? I don't know I don't think so because they're never in good shape like those school sets never last over, you know five years And so these were like people that I know their kids graduated with my older kids So I know they don't have Little ones and and I think it's just because it's big and bulky. We just leave them out there to just ride I've seen a lot of play sets And I've never really thought of that as as workout equipment And I guess it falls into that category because along with that we're thinking of like the trampolines and stuff I know that my mom and dad because of course we had 19 kids in our family mom and dad had Um one of those great big 12 foot trampolines And then they kept it even through their senior years because every time the grandkids would come over the grandkids would use it And they've replaced the mat of that and I think they've replaced the springs three or four times But they've replaced that mat maybe five or six times as it wears out because it's in hot weather and cold weather and all four seasons and stuff And they've replaced it like every three or four years. They end up replacing the the the floor mat You know the the place that you jump on But I I can't tell you how much of my youth was spent on the trampoline And then all the grandkids and the nieces and nephews and everybody that comes over and uses that And I think probably till the day they die. They're going to keep on those great monster And I have a sister it's really interesting that you talk about the swing sets I have a sister that um she has down syndrome and she spends a lot of her time in a swing And I think it's it goes back to that physical therapy thing But because she grew up The the swing no longer fit her and it wasn't supportive of her weight And my dad and a couple of my brothers went in and all my brothers in the construction field My dad and my brothers went in and they built this really tall swing set for her That is like something that would rival like at a public park Where it has a really tall frame and I know the beams of it are like this big around They're all braced together with like metal braces and stuff and there's this great big heavy duty swing And it's like one of those chair swings that you sit in and she spends probably I mean no like no You know conservatively she probably spends two or three hours a day In that swing just sitting there swinging herself back and forth as kind of a you know I'm having my alone time doing my own thing And you know just she listens to music and stuff while she's swinging But it's it's a great big industrial swing now for a 28 29 year old that she can use every single day I love to hear things like that where they actually are used like we have a big trampoline My granddaughter got for Christmas Last year of the year before and it's used every day like it's even used by my older kids They go out and have fun on it and stuff. So I don't mind having stuff if it's being used I just think yeah a lot that we're not using That people can get rid of We have a couple bikes um, I don't want to I don't want to Tell on my husband, but we have a couple bikes that we haven't used in a long time And unfortunately we're the kind of people I think I think we're not alone. I think lots of people do this But you you see a picture Or you see a video or an infomercial or something of an ad Of like look how easy this is to use and it was like a bicycle and he's like, oh we should bicycle You know and when we move to the neighborhood we live in right now. It's awesome for for cycling That's like four miles of roads that are all enclosed in development And so you can ride the bikes all over without you know going out on the main highway or whatever and getting hit by cars and When we went to the store to buy a bike because he got really caught up and we should have bikes I'm like, okay. That sounds really cool. And I think you know when you go to a new development that shows people on bikes and you know healthy family lifestyle or whatever and we we gave in to that we bought the bikes and When he got to the store the bike salesman is like, oh, you don't want this bike You want like this bike whatever and he was trying to go from like a $300 bike like a $3,000 bike And I just remember thinking wow, that's well It was a whole lot of money for just like riding around the neighborhood You know and he kept bumping us up to a higher and higher and higher and more expensive bike And I remember telling my husband if you ride 700 miles on this little starter bike I will buy you one of the big expensive bikes Like I will pay for it with my own money and everything But like we've never ridden bikes before so going from no riding bikes to going to like major Cyclists we're going to be racing up the sides of mountains and stuff We're not quite there yet And I mean like the bike this guy was trying to sell us had like those cleats that you like put the shoes in And then you lock yourself into place and stuff like that 23 gears or whatever it was We're riding around the neighborhood. We're toodling from house to house, right? And I don't think to this day we've ever put 700 miles on the bikes I mean, we still have the starter bikes right now and they're nice bikes, but they're not, you know, they're not the expensive ones And then I think to myself, I mean at any day we can put on our helmets and we can go and ride bikes So I might hang on to those but if you ask me like How long it's been since we actually rode for a bike I'm going to get really uncomfortable And I'm going to start thinking like it's been too long, you know, like why do we still have this because I I'm not using it and I know I'm not you know what I mean And in in the best of intentions, I I hate this but in the best of intentions I just renovated my entire studio And it was my weight room And I oh I'm going to use all this other weight equipment and I kind of like downsized and I moved it to another part of the house And I haven't used it. I'm not not at all not at all I went in one morning and I lifted free weights one morning, but I've only been using I've been jogging and I've been using my mini tram That's it And I hope I hope that's not the new norm for me. Yeah But then as I start looking at the last couple months because we say what what what's the window 60 90 days if you don't use it lose it And I started looking at that this week Yeah, I think that that is a lot of people Like I for instance bought some of those shoes that hook on to the bicycle because I was taking spin class at A gym and I absolutely loved that spin class and I spent the money on the shoes and But then something happened and I ended up like missing a week and then once I've missed a week I'm like, oh, I'm I'm out of shape already now. And so I tend to not go back And but then I keep the shoes because I'm like, oh if I ever do that spin class I don't really like like having these shoes Oh, you know, it's funny that you mentioned that and I I'm I'm glad you brought that up because As I was putting together the the videos the the slides for today I found a pair of tap shoes and then I had this really bad ping of oh, no I got a pair of capesios that are in the other room From my tap dance lesson. I did the exact same thing I signed up for tap dance lessons. I got the shoes I got some really cool music I was gonna like learn to tap and all this stuff because I don't know why I need to know how to tap, right? Because everybody needs to know how to tap and then I'm thinking oh my gosh, you know how much money I spent on those shoes. And I mean Any day now I'm gonna I'm gonna pick them up and start tapping again, right? Not That is exactly what my daughter chaselin did not too long ago. She was Okay, I've been injured and I can't play softball So I want to do dance again because she had done dance for years So we went out and we bought all the different shoes. I think it was 300 plus dollars that day and she danced for about two months And then she was like I just don't really have time and I really want to try band and So that is another thing that we have that kind of goes along with sporting equipment is we have So many musical instruments in my home so many And we don't use any of them really but we keep them Well, and I'm glad you brought that up because our topic for next week Is musical instruments and that's one of the things that we're going through and it's it's important that we take a look at those as well If you are gonna play play But do take a look this next week at your at your gym and fitness equipment Take a look at your musical instruments Because there's no sense and I say there's no sense. We're in and out of six generations Of inheritance from our parents from our parents parents And and and now it's it's like reverse inheritance our kids have moved away from home When we still have all of their stuff in the homes And then you have people that are in the 50s and 60 year range that now are in a glitch And here's the glitch you go through menopause and during menopause you don't you don't care about all this stuff It's not on your priority list. You got other stuff going on You don't care, you know what I mean? And so that has to be addressed The next issue is at that particular age of life You have elder parents now and you're worried and focused on them trying to help them with their Their health issues and get them settled and help them relocate and all that stuff You don't have time to go through your own stuff And so then by the time You deal with your parents and you you go through changes of life and all that stuff And you get the kids out of the home and the grandkids on their own and all that stuff You're you're at a point where now you are in that age range where you need someone else to come in And help you go through all your stuff because you now don't have the energy the drive or the ambition to do it Yeah, so true Anyway in wrapping this up, uh Copal says that's a creepy neighborhood. I've been driving through more talk about swing sets Is a bunch of abandoned swing sets. Um, yes, that's going to make like a horror movie So if you guys want to film it, I want to be part of like I'll drive I'll be the one in the car that drives through creepy There's like tire swings in houses that are like elderly, you know, they don't have any kids coming over And you'll just see a tire swing. So yeah, it is kind of creepy. It is kind of creepy That's creepy and uh, Judy says, hope you had a great trip. Yes, I did. Thank you so much, Judy Um, I went to swiss island for a week and I had a blast. I hyped the swiss alps and I just had so much fun Thanks, and it's good to have you back. Um, Eileen says omg I have four guitars. Oh Eileen next week, we're gonna have a conversation with you All right, and uh robin says If metal post uh post free scrap metal are within five minutes You'll have a garage of people there trampoline swing sets and appliances. They want it That's a really really good point and I hadn't thought of that. That's a great way to get rid of that Swing sets and trampolines and stuff like that if you have free scrap metal I've not even thought of that. That's a great way to get to let some of that broken abandoned stuff go You guys this has been awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you, uh, heather and sally for joining us live Uh, sally you went on a trip as well. Yes. I went to asia for a month. I'm back. Welcome back. Yeah, thank you Do you have gel lagging you still join us today? Yay This is awesome All right, so next week Musical musical equipment. We're gonna do this again next week and it's not going to be the same time the same place We are having a lot of internet glitches On my end due to the streaming times where we are and lots of people can't join us at this time because of their schedule And so we are going to switch it to a later time I will announce that in the next day or two so that you guys can join us And if you can if you can fit it in your schedule, I would love to have you guys back So we want to we want to do this to help you guys and to just have the conversations that I don't know maybe this sparked something today that you hadn't thought of And then you're gonna go wait a second that pull bar that goes over the door. I can let it go Anyway, keep me posted. I'm eager to hear what happens next And you can also leave notes and comments in the comments below and that way we can we can continue the conversation But that is it for today. You guys have a great week and we'll talk soon