do you hate to throw stuff away?

[sao95]

I hate throwing stuff away. Right now I have a hot water heater and a push lawn mower in my garage, the lawn mower has been falling apart for years and i kept slapping it back together, we got a new one, but I just couldn't throw the old one away, the hot water heater was thought to be bad, so i put a new one in, turned out it was only a minor problem, (a couple of burnt wires), kept tyhe new one anyways because it's larger and suits our needs better, but for months I couldn't throw it away, I even tried to give it away, asked around but there were no takers, so today the in-laws are coming in and i'm under strict orders to dispose of them, so to the dump i go, I'm gonna miss working on that old lawn mower

other stuff I keep for seemingly no reason, I have four bags of empty baby food jars, (i use them for paint sometimes) i'll never use all of them, yet I still have them, I keep all my parking passes from each semester at school? Tons of other crap too, I just can't seem to throw it away...

so who else is a pack rat?

[Theophylact]

Absolutely. I have canceled checks going back to 1969. I have over forty cartons of boxed-up paperback murder mysteries and science fiction in a cubby under my eaves. I have bags full of cables for obsolete computers. I have operating manuals for electronic equipment and appliances I no longer own. I have ancient suitcases too heavy (or too worn-out) ever to use again.

I have my grade-school diploma.

[tmx468]

I would take some pictures of the stuff I keep under my bed, but it may scare younger members

Anyone care for 286 chips, motherboards, bags of 30pin SIMMS, 10Mb hard drives... even a case or two. Boxes of cables.... nothing gets binned..

[TOAD6147]

My wife.............and it's a serious issue.

[Uncle Bob]

I very seldom throw any thing away. I just move to a different room when one gets full.

[zen]

Yes. I'll keep useless items for years, or even decades. Rearranging them every couple years, just to make it look like I need them.

And when I finally break down and throw something away, I'll need it the next day.

[Brainchild]

Guilty

I have stuff I have no idea what it is or even used to be.And it seems like things just find thier way to my house.I have 2 upgright pianos,one buried so deep in the garage you don't even know it's there
Seats from a van I haven't driven in 3 years
over 20 486 computers
a fax machine the size of a small fridge
and just stacks of stuff.Assorted large electronics that don't work.And that's not even to the storage shed yet

I'm gonna clean it all out in the spring though.It's all gonna leave,one way or the other.I'll bet the city will have to use a dumptruck.Geez,what a mess



except this





and this





OH and this

[Roy]

What's (choke) "throwing stuff away"?

[The Real Bingo]

Why throw it away when you can sell it? One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Warthog]

- Movie tickets from years and years ago

- AOL cds (I've broken that habit though)

- BAWLS bottles (broken that one too - but they are so cool looking)

Warthog