Decluttering the Garage, Part I; Too much Teacher Stuff to Manage, Hoarding, eBay Room Reset

[@SharonDLorse]

Catching you for the first time. If you don’t mind my asking, how did the name of your channel come about?

[@gatoregidge]

My channel is just about the adventures in my life and being real. I came up with this name several years ago when I started selling plush on eBay, but life got too busy and I stopped selling. I came up with the name because several of the creative names I came up with were already taken. I combined a plush gator and instead of gadget I invented the word gidge. I put them together with an "e" to create gatoregidge. When I decided to try creating video content I decided to use the word as it was so unique. I like the way it roles off of my tongue. Also, my husband is originally from Florida and he has great childhood stories about gators. Those were my inspirations for the word Gatoregidge. Thank you for watching!

[@maryl234]

Stop spending so much money as an underpaid teacher. The system is broken. Or just leave it all for the next teacher and be done with it when you retire. Best thing I did as an art teacher who retired at 55 was dump all that old kid art that I had hung on to. What a relief to be free of that crap. Old papers - OUT. Old books - donated. FREE! Dumb mementos noone wants when I am dead - gone. I have photos from 25 years and that's all I need. Stuff gets covered with dust and becomes meaningless junk. The space is more important.

[@gatoregidge]

I can't wait to be done with all of the stuff! Hopefully, just one more year and I can retire. It takes too much of my precious time to manage the "stuff." Unfortunately, they check our rooms and I get new assignments some years. If I had known which schools I would be assigned to next year I would have left some of my items. I didn't want to buy the baskets etc... again and my school assigned curriculum would be difficult to replace. The struggle is real. I'm also wanting to kick my eBay side hustle into being more productive as I would like to make enough to pay my medical premiums and not stay because medical is so expensive even with our retirement healthcare. Time will tell... Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Yes I agree it all collects dust!!!