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Keeping things for no apparent reason

Do you keep things for no apparent reason?

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valis23 said:
I'm the anti-pack rat. If I don't use it at least once a year, it's gone. There are a few exceptions -books, some vinyl records, and a few gifts. I have no use for collecting anything; I have very little furniture on which to set stuff. No magazines and junk mail is kept to an absolute minimum to avoid wasting trees.
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I wish that I was like that. My ceiling is basically bulging with the weight of the crap in the attic.
 
I am probably one of a small group of JUBbers who are the products of the Great Depression in the early 1930s. I was born
in 1940 and "waste not, want not" was the motto of us all.

I will tomorrow have to face this formidable task, because my son, his wife, and my grandson are coming to visit. And I have a rather large job of throwing things out to do before they get here.
My partner has insisted.
Shep+
 
I honestly have to say that I still try to hang onto my wits as best I can, although I can't think of any apparent reason on most days, but I do have to confess that I come from a family of hardcore savers....you never know when a ball of string or a thermal fax machine or sheep shears will be needed. Maybe all my antecedents were McGivers.

Because of it though, I am the defacto curator of a wealth of family artifacts that no one else in the family wants. These are always around me, like the little tin can painted robin's egg blue that sat on my grandmothers range for spent matches. I don't know why I kept it after she died but suddenly one day, I needed a can to hold square handforged nails that I had removed from the pantry, but couldn't bear to throw away....and subsequently needed the nails for a restoration project.

Every object in every drawer in every cabinet in every room in every building that I occupy connects me with a person, place or event in the past or present and it seems like a betrayal to throw anything away.

So every once in awhile, we are forced to have someone come and cart off the detritus and to constantly be passing along things of value that we don't use to someone who might.

I am excited though, we are just in the process of restoring the barns and with no animals to put in them anymore, think of how much storage room we'll have.

I would like to stick around after I'm dead, just long enough to see the auction sale that has to deal with a lifetime of incorrigible collecting.

Memento mori.
 
I come up with apparent reasons.
 
No, I'm a binner, about once a month I rampage through the house with a bin bag and anything not actaully being used is thrown away. I can't stand the place all cluttered up. Sometimes throw away stuff I want later, but very rarely.
 
I'm totally the opposite. I throw things away that have never been used if they look like they're taking up too much space.
 
Hell yeah, i'm constantly keeping things on the off chance "they may be useful one day" when in reality they're just totally useless.
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Oh, the irony, JLY.
 
I really am not a pack rat; at least I don't think so.

Why recently I started shredding some old telephone bills from the 1970's and 80's.

Of course my basement is out of bounds for anyone visiting here.

I insist on keeping my wooden rocking horse. It was a gift, you know!

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I like to throw things away. I don't like clutter. And everything has a place and everything is in its place.

My partner likes clutter. I let him have a few places where he can keep his clutter-his desk, his table by the door, the spare room.

It helps keep us both sane.
 
I have a spare room thats full of un-needed crap. Like stuff from ex-bfs.
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We assume you don't mean organs and body parts kept in a freezer.
 
I don't. I purge my stuff regularly. People tend to keep things out of fear -- they're afraid they'll need it once they throw it out. But the chance of that happening is rare, at least in my experience.
 
Moving is the best way to thin the herd. Kept everything sentimental and valuable and don't miss a thing we parted with. Plus in the new place we have a much better system, including filing for receipts and only keeping them for a year as a rule.
 
Ryuukie said:
I don't. I purge my stuff regularly. People tend to keep things out of fear -- they're afraid they'll need it once they throw it out. But the chance of that happening is rare, at least in my experience.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was said by someone who could still get through a room w/o fear of being buried alive. And that fear Ryuukie mentioned is keeping therapists children in Ivy League schools very nicely, thank you. I have discovered a slight (teeny-tiny) aid in RECYCLING. Now, when (if) I toss something, I don't have the fear of destroying our planet (there that damn fear is again - oh, doctor....)..|:wave:
 
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