Empty nesting

[AnderNuvvaFing]

Is this a thing?

When you're pregnant you get all homely and want to make sure that you have all of your stuff for your offspring. Mine have just gone to university and I'm throwing stuff out like crazy (calm down, charities and recycling as much as possible) and selling like never before on vinted.

This this typical behaviour?

YABU and you're alone on this one
YANBU my house is empty too

I chuck stuff out when they are out at the park so I imagine I'll go wild when they move out!

Must be common. My mum threw all my stuff out the minute I left home. Good for her!
Although, since then, I've been trying to track down quite a few books that are out of print which is mildly annoying.

Oooh yes, it’s very therapeutic!
My last child moved out in the summer and whilst she took most of her stuff with her there is still stuff she’s left behind and doesn’t want.
The house is slowly becoming ours again and it’s so great to have cupboard and wardrobe space just for us.
We’ve yet to tackle the loft though!

My last one will leave next September, I’m already planning on gutting that room - although I may need a biohazard suit 🙄

Soon after DS1 moved out we repurposed his very nice room into another TV room with a big sofa and a really big screen on the wall. We used it loads, a much better use of space than a barely used bedroom.

Think is, they move on and it’s important that we do too.

Yup very sensible. Tbh I love the empty nest. They cone back which is super and I love them dearly but it’s nice to be done with the 24/7 child rearing. They have grown up and so have we I guess.

When I was young, there was a family on the street and when the oldest son went into the Army his father sold the boys bed

I haven't thrown any of their stuff out, although I will admit to emptying, cleaning and refilling the wardrobes, and putting stuff in drawers. It's more random stuff - things that have lived in the freezer for too long, clearing out the drawer of kitchen stuff that never gets used. I've been through the boxroom - an actual windowless boxroom, not a small bedroom that are now often called boxrooms, why is this?

The pantry and kitchen cupboards were the first to be cleared of lurkers and the freezers have never been so empty although we're eating our way through those. Ironically we have less food now than ever, just as the advice is to increase reserves! Could still easily do three weeks, possibly 3 months but the meals would be a bit weird and VERY meaty!

Their rooms are still very much their own - I know which stuff is special to them, even if it is an empty drinks can (yes really). People throwing away/selling their children's stuff without prior knowledge is heartbreaking.