Its called "hoarding" and I think most of us do it to some degree. Some are worse than others for sure. I have found that I will glady GIVE items away knowing that they will be used by someone else when I cant find it in myself to THROW it away!Sounds silly but its true. Also we tried the tag sale thing last year and I also found I could easily part with something for 25 cents but couldnt throw it away, KNOWING it still had some good use left to it!
You should see my collection of still barely useful crap. I could start my own salvage yard. And I know that as soon as I throw it, I will need it. Help!!
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Hi, my name is Karl, and I can't throw nuttin' away....
this ia actually after the yard sale and dump runs.....
and there is more, that don't show in the pic..
then theres the shed fullo'crap outside....
and the crap piled behind that...
I'm on step 3 of the 12... and my wifes just as bad, as I... meybe we could just thrwo each others crap away? ... nooooo wont work... we'd just hoard that stuff too....
[QUOTE=Karl F} meybe we could just thrwo each others crap away? ... nooooo wont work... we'd just hoard that stuff too....[/QUOTE]
FLMAO!!!!!! Karl...you are too much!!!!!
...lets not talk about the shed thing...hubby wants a shed BADLY...I keep telling him we dont need one..(though we really do for the mower, etc.)...but really I fear it will become another "collection" of stuff......
A very timely thread for me - I am just starting to chuck stuff away. The local dumpsters are going to get filled up quick! I started with the partialy full cans of paint. Some colors from about 40 + years ago. Rubbish guy won't take em and we have no dump.
I did clear my driveway though - I had a 89 Chev beretta that my wife drove. It had 47K miles on it and I bought it new. It had a rusted through brakeline and other small shtick that I wasn't going to repair at my age. called helping hands and had them tow it away. My XYL was sorry to see it go.
It does at times seem like everyone falls under the category of "packrattus americanus". I now toss anything that hasnt been touched within 5 years, but like someone else said, due to Murphy's Law it does seem like once you do toss 10 items that have gathered dust for years, within a month either you or another family member then has a use for it.
And if it makes you feel better about filling a dumpster, Im doing a full remodel on a 120 yr old gothic revival house where we have now filled 5 large dumpsters, one of which contained 8.5 tons of plaster.
meybe we could just thrwo each others crap away?
... nooooo wont work... we'd just hoard that stuff too....
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