So, most people have a nice home and its got nice stuff in it, a couple of pieces people gravitate to that start up a conversation
IE; I love the _ _ _ _, where did you find it?
Some people have more stuff than they need and they may then have a room they won?t show to you or at least a cupboard they won?t open while there?s anybody around. These people usually fit into one of two categories as classified by me.
The first is a pack rat (my Dad was); you?ve got stuff stashed away because you know one day it will come in handy!
The second is a hoarder (Mother is); you?ve got stuff around everywhere just simply for the sake of having stuff!
Mmmm, the names could be the other way around, anyway, those definitions are not necessarily as accurate as they could be but that was how I grew up, I would need a length of string and my dad could tell me which shed and in what box had the exact length I needed, towards the end of his life he used to like to be out amongst his gear, categorizing it so mother could sell it all easily to pay for his funeral. She just threw most of it out when he died anyway.
Now she on the other hand, has a thing where she will buy something just to have it and then she would put it away and never look at it again and woe betide anybody who wanted to use it or even look at it, any flat surface has a stack of gear on there and just sits gathering dust, a lot of it is actual rubbish that she just didn?t throw out yet.
I find I am now an combination of the two!
I have junk in boxes and I don?t even know what most of it is but I cant get rid of it though, there was another thread here about whether your messy or neat and this is gonna be like that but different!
Do you save everything, as later it might be needed or do you just not ever let anything leave?
I like shows like ?American Pickers? and ?Hoarders? and watch them with amazement at the fact that my family weren?t the only ones who had piles and piles of stuff everywhere.
I actually once went through a couple boxes of my own and discovered empty bottles and wrappers, newspapers and pamphlets and yes, while it was interesting to see all this stuff from many years ago, I was distressed to find I had been lugging this crap with me every time I moved. I even used to bring home the wrappers and stuff from those rare times I took lunch to school, simply because I thought that any rubbish from stuff I had bought from home, had to go back home with me! Weird huh!
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IE; I love the _ _ _ _, where did you find it?
Some people have more stuff than they need and they may then have a room they won?t show to you or at least a cupboard they won?t open while there?s anybody around. These people usually fit into one of two categories as classified by me.
The first is a pack rat (my Dad was); you?ve got stuff stashed away because you know one day it will come in handy!
The second is a hoarder (Mother is); you?ve got stuff around everywhere just simply for the sake of having stuff!
Mmmm, the names could be the other way around, anyway, those definitions are not necessarily as accurate as they could be but that was how I grew up, I would need a length of string and my dad could tell me which shed and in what box had the exact length I needed, towards the end of his life he used to like to be out amongst his gear, categorizing it so mother could sell it all easily to pay for his funeral. She just threw most of it out when he died anyway.
Now she on the other hand, has a thing where she will buy something just to have it and then she would put it away and never look at it again and woe betide anybody who wanted to use it or even look at it, any flat surface has a stack of gear on there and just sits gathering dust, a lot of it is actual rubbish that she just didn?t throw out yet.
I find I am now an combination of the two!
I have junk in boxes and I don?t even know what most of it is but I cant get rid of it though, there was another thread here about whether your messy or neat and this is gonna be like that but different!
Do you save everything, as later it might be needed or do you just not ever let anything leave?
I like shows like ?American Pickers? and ?Hoarders? and watch them with amazement at the fact that my family weren?t the only ones who had piles and piles of stuff everywhere.
I actually once went through a couple boxes of my own and discovered empty bottles and wrappers, newspapers and pamphlets and yes, while it was interesting to see all this stuff from many years ago, I was distressed to find I had been lugging this crap with me every time I moved. I even used to bring home the wrappers and stuff from those rare times I took lunch to school, simply because I thought that any rubbish from stuff I had bought from home, had to go back home with me! Weird huh!
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