Sophia, throw those things away.

This.

If you have things you love so much that you can't bear to part with them, display them where you can see and enjoy them. Otherwise, give or throw them away.

Megan, speaking of your organizing prowess, when you come visit (note the "when," not "if"), I am in need of your services. Again. I will bribe you with tasty dinners and desserts and alcoholic beverages.

Hmmm, you make a compelling argument.

Whew! I got to the end of the thread and you are being all organizey. I am lolling around in bed wondering how long I can practically work the travel hangover angle. Not this long, I suspect. I am discombobulated because we are effectively flooded in. We didn`t make it to church this morning and instead made an emergency grocery run. I`m supposed to register the sweet new ride tomorrow and the SO teaches, but I am unconvinced either of those things are going to happen.
 
I did make peanut butter cookies and went on a long ramble with the dog, so it`s a win for the day despite the rain induced lazy.
 
I did make spreadsheets for the move, to go with my color coded six digit labels. But that didn`t stop me from having boxes of detritus that should never have been moved. I just knew which boxes they were.

So, sarameg is stripping paint off her banister with goo. Dillo and I are stripping paint off our bathroom door using our fingernails! Someone painted it in latex over oil paint without priming, and it comes off in sheets. Very satisfying.

Of course, once we get the latex off, we have to decide what to do next. The underlayer is very dirty and peach-colored. To strip all the layers off with goo? Or just wash, prime, and paint? Either way needs to wait until we can work outside.

Floors clean. As is the stove (which how it got dirty, I fail to understand since I haven't used it in months.)

My boxed up stuff is stuff that goes on walls. It''s such a bear of a task, I haven't even looked at stuff to figure out if I want to keep it or not.

Hmmm, you make a compelling argument.

Allow me to sweeten the deal with a cute puppy.

Someone painted it in latex over oil paint without priming, and it comes off in sheets. Very satisfying.

Ahahahahaha! This is what started this whole adventure.

Thing is, all the trim and doors and everything in the entire damned house are like this. Windows, everything. It is actually a huge pain in the ass, and will be a huge amount of work to fix. Some people should not be allowed to paint things.

flea, yup, I'm in the EXACT SAME situation. It's just that Loki started the shredding for me. Banister takes much more abuse than the trim and doors.

In addition to the vegetable freezing frnzies you have heard about before, my entire childhood was spent with various family members scraping of paint on top of wallpaper on top of paint, and then painting.

My grandfather never did his room, though, and I ended up doing it when I was 25 and moved back home. And then I somehow started pulling the ceiling down with the wallpaper!

My grandma ended up "staining" a lot of the raw wood with shoe polish, so I am not even sure how anyone would fix that.