are you a pack rat?

[nickel]

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i tend to just throw stuff out cause i hate junk piling up. i have a friend who has piles of stuff lying around and the piles get bigger and bigger and one day she goes through it and heaves most of it. why not throw it out to begin with? :shrug:

[DarkFury]

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i tend to just throw stuff out cause i hate junk piling up. i have a friend who has piles of stuff lying around and the piles get bigger and bigger and one day she goes through it and heaves most of it. why not throw it out to begin with? :shrug:
Well.. just like the toon says above (not that I agree with it in THAT particular situation), you never know when you might actually need it.

I've encountered several times where I've needed something and I'll be dayuumed if it hadn't been already tossed out.

Just like when I had to ship one of my monitors back to the factory for service... I tossed out the original box. Well, I ended up having to PAY about $16 to buy a new "double walled" box and packing materials to ship it for repair... I coulda saved that $16 for the cost of storing the original in my garage (but my GF essentially nagged me to death about it taking up too much space and that I didn't need it anymore...)

So at times, being a "pack rat" is good... just don't hold on to "pure junk". :D

[Airencracken]

I am. :disa: I save everything. Mostly because it all has a connection to a feeling or memory.

[Merlin]

Nope. I try to toss as much as I can.

[zenbooty]

Nope. I try to toss off as much as I can.TMI! TMI!

[johnnymk]

Well. my sister hums the Sanford and Son tune every time she visits me. :bandit:

[blueindian]

i'd like to be, but my space is limited. i just got rid of about 3 truckloads of stuff to make some room.

[Lolita]

I am. :disa: I save everything. Mostly because it all has a connection to a feeling or memory.


:stupid: I feel that if I throw it away, the memory is gonna go with it...and at the end memories are all we have left

[zenbooty]

:stupid: I feel that if I throw it away, the memory is gonna go with it...and at the end memories are all we have leftNo, you'll be losing those, too. :P

[Lolita]

No, you'll be losing those, too. :P


yes, but you see if I keep all my movie stubs then I won't forget what movie I saw, and if I keep all my birthday cards then I won't forget who my friends were, etc..

[blueindian]

yes, but you see if I keep all my movie stubs then I won't forget what movie I saw, and if I keep all my birthday cards then I won't forget who my friends were, etc..


i throw cards out the instant i read them, with rare exception. i HATE cards. IMHO, they are stupid, impersonal, & and above all an environmental catastrophe. most of my friends know i feel this way so i don't get too many to begin with.

[Lolita]

i throw cards out the instant i read them, with rare exception. i HATE cards. IMHO, they are stupid, impersonal, & and above all an environmental catastrophe. most of my friends know i feel this way so i don't get too many to begin with.

they're impersonal when all the person does is sign their name next to the greeting, but if they take the time to think of something funny or heartfelt then I keep the card

[ufcrusher]

Yes...definitely a pack rat. For the most part I can even tell you where everything is even years after I put them away. Every once in a while I will discover a lost treasure that I dont remember keeping.

I always throw out anything that is broken...which sometimes results in my finding manuals for things that have long since gone the way of the dodo.

My last great purge came when we moved from the east coast out west. I had to get rid of 20 years of National Geographics, Aquarium Fish magazines, and a whole bunch of other items. I find that I need to get articles from the AFM's and no longer have them.

[redcolours]

yes.
im a packrat.
i should take a pic of my bedroom and show how 1/4 of it is filled with boxes that contain components and parts from computers and old stuff. too cheap to ebay, and too precious to throw out since it still works, just no use at this moment.

i guess its from my upbringing. we were not rich by any standards, and what meager possessions we have, we used to the hilt (using rubber cement and duct tape to worn out shoes, holes in socks and shirts, bent and rebent forks and spoons, etc). we just had no money to buy a new one, so we kept it. i still do it to this day.

bah! i should stop thinking that way and live lean. that way, if i decide to move, i wont have much to deal with.

[Showtime]

they're impersonal when all the person does is sign their name next to the greeting, but if they take the time to think of something funny or heartfelt then I keep the card

Not true. I have taken up to an hour to find the right card so I don't have say much else. I don't expect people to keep them, but to think it wasn't heartfelt wouldn't be right.

I'm a thrower who used to collect way too much stuff. Junk still piles up once in a while, but I don't have a problem throwing or giving unused stuff away. I still have way too much clothes and for some reason my Lakers Championship stuff keeps expanding. :wow:

-jel:halo:

[Nija]

I'm not a pack rat, because the corner my g/f has allotted to me has filled up.

My mom kind of is. My grandmother & grandfather were disgustingly pack rats (and 2 years later we are still cleaning their house out... )

[whitak24]

i'm a pretty big pack rat, although not so much now, because i have no space.

[Merlin]

TMI! TMI!
Alright, very funny. You got me on that one.

[oblongmelon]

before i throw anything away-i determine if any part of it can be salvaged...since I quilt-old clothes, if the material is any good, is cut up and pieced..I remove buttons, zippers, and any kind of snaps etc..and keep them in my sewing room (which is a huge room btw)..any kind of "mechanical thing" gets taken apart and nuts and bolts and screw type things are all saved in small plastic drawers under the workbenches in the workroom off the garage....It's just common sense to keep things you know you will need a few of every so often that can get costly to purchase. Things like old cardboard and what not gets recycled along with glass bottles..broken dishes I DO keep though because I make table tops, and garden stones out of the broken pieces imbedded in a thin layer of cement. they are so pretty :)

[molecularfire]

I tend to throw things away... sometimes only to find that I threw them out too soon. Kind of a reaction to the fact that everybody else in my family are pack rats. We have stuff piled all over the place in our house, our garage, etc... I've grown to value the space a more spartan lifestyle affords me.

[brainsmile]

I HATE clutter

[Merlin]

It is pretty rare that I need something I previously threw out.

[topane]

I have a basement full of crap I never use. I'm in the process of selling/donating/tossing anything I can.