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CherryBom
Yoga Gypsy


Registered: 12/26/98
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Loc: Ontario
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I am a packrat.
#7606635 - 11/07/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm cleaning out my life and it's full of clutter. EVERYWHERE. I keep everything... old jewelery, old clothes that I don't wear, old notes and letters, old birthday cards, old toys. I have boxes inside boxes, I have broken things that I have fully intended to repair and now they are long forgotten, but stored. I even keep old make up until it's completely expired.
I even have a folder for old emails that I haven't read since I originally received them. I don't bother deleting my PMs EVER....just in case.
There is so much junk in my life I can't even think straight. I'm like one of those crazy people on those TLC shows with entire rooms full of crap they've hoarded for no reason other then 'one day I might need it!'
So I am cleaning up. Emails, pms, boxes crates and closets. I'm going to have a giant yard sale in the spring and make some serious cash. Then I am going to spend it on strawberry daquaris on the beach in Belize.
Parting with all my shit it hard. Even when I'm cleaning up junk, I still look for excuses to keep everything I come across.
Are there any other packrats out there? Aren't you sick of the clutter?
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greys
OTD Sergeant at Arms



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: CherryBom]
#7606649 - 11/07/07 11:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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a good rule of thumb....if its not holiday or special occasion oriented and you dont touch it for 2 months....pitch it. this used to be a problem for me....but not anymore.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: CherryBom]
#7606656 - 11/07/07 11:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm a packrat in fits and starts. I don't hold on to anything for crazy long. But I'll accumulate a year's worth of crap and then have a really satisfying day of putting it all in trash bags and tossing it out into the street.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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trendal
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Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: CherryBom]
#7606658 - 11/07/07 11:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah I'm a packrat.
No, I don't mind being one!
Because, you know, I could need them someday, perhaps
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: trendal]
#7606661 - 11/07/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah those collectible Japanese paperclips you ordered from that late night infomercial could wind up being the key to destroying the zombie invasion!!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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trendal
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Too late...I already used them in my latest rube goldberg...
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adrug

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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: trendal]
#7606676 - 11/07/07 12:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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trendal said: Because, you know, I could need them someday, perhaps
Exactly. You never know when society is going to collapse and you can't get any new slinkys or broken cd players... I figure this crap is better off in boxes in my house than in some landfill.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: trendal]
#7606677 - 11/07/07 12:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is that the one that takes 3 days and 8 tonnes of oil to produce the perfect bookmark?
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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trendal
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It's up to 13 tonnes...I made the bookmark 0.0014 inches wider.
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: trendal]
#7606696 - 11/07/07 12:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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BRILLIANT!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Silversoul
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: trendal]
#7606713 - 11/07/07 12:18 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
trendal said: Yeah I'm a packrat.
No, I don't mind being one!
Because, you know, I could need them someday, perhaps
to that!
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WhiskeyClone
Not here


Registered: 06/25/01
Posts: 16,509
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: CherryBom]
#7606978 - 11/07/07 01:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have a fair bit of clutter but it's only because I don't go through my stuff very often. I love to throw things out; I believe everything you throw out makes you stronger. The fewer possessions you have, the more you get out of the ones you keep.
Clutter in your home creates clutter in your mind. It really does.
I have seen some really bad cases of packratosis. My ex-gf's mother was insane. They had a double garage, completely full of JUNK. Pure junk. Broken flowerpots, dolls with missing limbs, coffee cans... eck. Like the leftovers from a thousand garage sales. God I wanted to burn it all. Saving junk is an act of cowardice. Let go! Let go! Feel the power!
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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RoosterCogburn
Fearless,one-eyed U.S.Marshall



Registered: 08/25/06
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I should post pictures of my bedroom... Just box after box of useless shit I can't throw away. At least I finally put most of it in boxes.
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tiny_rabid_birds
Nocturnal



Registered: 11/08/05
Posts: 15,653
Loc: estados unidos
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i'm a total packrat as well. i like projects, so i'll start them all the time. but then i get distracted, don't finish, and just set them off to the side. every piece of junk i have has a potential use in some unforeseen project in the future. i can't bring myself to throw anything out that's not simple trash.
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Yoschie99
nomad



Registered: 11/24/99
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: CherryBom]
#7607201 - 11/07/07 02:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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*raises hand*
i hold onto lots of stuff.. though, I lost a good bit of my old carry-arounds last year when i went to jail... necessary purging by the lady. 
big fan of holding onto flyers/posters/pictures/random papers/etc/etc... trying to curb that habit, since cross-country moving seems inevitable...

yos-
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RoosterCogburn
Fearless,one-eyed U.S.Marshall



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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: Yoschie99]
#7607222 - 11/07/07 02:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I tend to save silly reciepts for things, then they pile up on my dresser under my wallet. Then, I have no idea whats important or not.
I have fucking reciepts that are so old the ink is faded... why? I have no idea.
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tiny_rabid_birds
Nocturnal



Registered: 11/08/05
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Loc: estados unidos
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Quote:
RoosterCogburn said: I have fucking reciepts that are so old the ink is faded... why? I have no idea.
me too! 
i usually just put receipts in my coat pocket and forget about them. earlier today when i pulled out my heavier coat, i found like 2 dozen faded receipts in my pocket. the majority of them were just from buying lunch.
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juende
feministpresence


Registered: 02/20/04
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oh pack rat should be my middle name. for me its i could use this later on. i'm super organizational but i just have so much of everything.
i dont have enough room for my books, magazines, printed books offline on my three bookshelves. i do a lot of knitting and other crafts so i have a box of paper, boxes of paints, soldering irons etc. i do black and white photography so i have a huge rubber maid tin of cameras, devloping things, film pictures. my mushies, seeds, herbs, sewing machine too much fabric, yarn.. the list goes on and on... but i dont feel like this is 'crap' ya know. i think i need to narrow down the number of projects that i do.. i dunno. i keep receipts and old bills and everything... but i had to do something about it. i got one of those hanging file boxes and put my papers in there.
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mushbaby
woodswalker




Registered: 09/30/06
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: juende]
#7608502 - 11/07/07 07:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I still have about 15 boxes of books that were my mother's. She died 15 yrs ago. I have toted these books cross country twice and have never had the space to display them. Occasionally I go through a box or two and imagine the library I'll have one day.
Guess you could call me a pack rat too.
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juende
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Re: I am a packrat. [Re: mushbaby]
#7608506 - 11/07/07 07:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah i have a few things that no matter what i'm not going to toss out... its that 'one day i'll have the right space to put it where it belongs' thoughts <3
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