You Never Realise How Much Stuff You Have

[Fuzz]

You never realise how much stuff you have... till you have to move it!

I'm doing renovations to my house (painting and replacing the flooring upstairs) and basically have to move everything. I have come to realise that I am a borderline hoarder! I keep finding junk that is old enough to vote!

On the plus side, I have found things that I thought I lost, like my Jim Lee signed volume 1 X-Men comics (all five alternate covers).

Anyone else a borderline hoarder?

[IanMcLean68]

18 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

You never realise how much stuff you have... till you have to move it!

I'm doing renovations to my house (painting and replacing the flooring upstairs) and basically have to move everything. I have come to realise that I am a borderline hoarder! I keep finding junk that is old enough to vote!

On the plus side, I have found things that I thought I lost, like my Jim Lee signed volume 1 X-Men comics (all five alternate covers).

Anyone else a borderline hoarder?

I prefer the term "collector"  I am a bit of a mad collector. Just ask @Luca, he got an idea of this when he visited me a few days ago!

[Luca]

2 minutes ago, IanMcLean68 said:

I prefer the term "collector"  I am a bit of a mad collector. Just ask @Luca, he got an idea of this when he visited me a few days ago!

Trust me guys. You have to see what @IanMcLean68 has. It's amazing! I thought I was bad with the amount of Rx7 Parts I have collected over the years!

[Fuzz]

I have taken over space at my warehouse to store my comics statue collection.

[WABOOM]

We are moving in 3 weeks. Ive been going thru my stuff. I have stuff I dont remember buying.

[Jimmy_jack]

Yes. Moved last year and took loads of stuff to the dump. 

[Fuzz]

32 minutes ago, WABOOM said:

We are moving in 3 weeks. Ive been going thru my stuff. I have stuff I dont remember buying.

Me too. I just filled three boxes of stuff that I have no recollection ever buying. Problem is, none of this stuff was cheap!

But I have also filled over 5 boxes of stuff that is destined for the charity bin. The rest will be sold off, as charities refuse to take electronics.

[TBird55]

I was raised on a farm, and was taught to NEVER throw anything away, you may need that one day. Well after 40 years of saving, collecting, stashing, needless to say I may need an intervention. My wife and I have begun taking box after box to Goodwill, but hardly putting a dent in it. I think it will take the next 40 years to get rid of all the "treasures" that we have accumulated. 

[BlackFriar]

Heck, I still have stuff in boxes from the last two moves.  Afraid to open them at this point.

[Akela3rd]

We cleared out the loft and garage last year and filled an 8 yard skip. Loft now has 'storage space' hidden behind false walls, full of stuff (half of which I don't know what it is but Mrs insists it's worth keeping). Garage doesn't look any different a year down the line.

May have to order another skip this year...

 

 

[Lotusguy]

My divorce took care of most of my extra stuff

[ayepatz]

We moved house two years ago. We were merciless, and cleared out all our junk.

When I say “our”, obviously I mean “my”. ?

[Zigatoh]

My stuff has stuff. But it's OK, I'm currently collecting books on hoarding disorder.

[Duxnutz]

Ya never know when you’ll need it fuzz! Zombie apocalypse, crazy nut takes leadership of the country etc. 

[Fuzz]

I have stuff from my old house, still packed in boxes, when I moved into this current house... 24 years ago. Have been de-cluttering the past week, but haven't really made much of a dent.

3 hours ago, Duxnutz said:

Ya never know when you’ll need it fuzz! Zombie apocalypse, crazy nut takes leadership of the country etc. 

Don't worry, I got that covered when I take over the country.... and I'm not crazy! Just a little eccentric....

[gweilgi]

12 hours ago, Fuzz said:

You never realise how much stuff you have... till you have to move it!

I'm doing renovations to my house (painting and replacing the flooring upstairs) and basically have to move everything. I have come to realise that I am a borderline hoarder! I keep finding junk that is old enough to vote!

On the plus side, I have found things that I thought I lost, like my Jim Lee signed volume 1 X-Men comics (all five alternate covers).

Anyone else a borderline hoarder?

Depends: from which side are you approaching the border?

 

Ours is not a hoarding family -- the family motto is "oooh, this could come in handy one day!".  We collect and tie together bits of string to make longer string.  We have jars of rusty and bent nails, because you can always straighten them out and re-use them some day.  There are drawers full of junk mail cut up into handy note-sized bits for shopping lists etc. The drawer above is filled with hundreds and hundreds of old Christians cards, ready to be cut up and re-used as decoration or gift tags when the opportunity presents itself.  My mother has the third-largest collection of used plastic bags in Europe.  I am right now looking at stacks of empty cigar boxes because they are too good to burn and yes, might come in handy some day.  We have a large jar with nothing but old keys -- from drawers belonging to furniture that has long ago been given away, from suitcases that were used half a century ago, from padlocks for bicycles that we used to get to school several decades ago, etc.  Could all come in handy some day, right?  In a corner of the cellar, there is a stack of boxes with hoover bags for hoovers that went out of production in the last millennium ... they cost money, you know, and you can't just throw this stuff out!  Small electrical appliances used to come with detachable cables and boxy little transformers, so of course, when we throw out the old answerphone or radio alarm clock, we keep these cables and transformers, never to be used again.  

But, and this is important: we are NOT hoarders!  All of this stuff is *useful* and could come in handy.  Some day.

 

 

[Ken Gargett]

13 hours ago, Fuzz said:

You never realise how much stuff you have... till you have to move it!

I'm doing renovations to my house (painting and replacing the flooring upstairs) and basically have to move everything. I have come to realise that I am a borderline hoarder! I keep finding junk that is old enough to vote!

On the plus side, I have found things that I thought I lost, like my Jim Lee signed volume 1 X-Men comics (all five alternate covers).

Anyone else a borderline hoarder?

i am most certainly not a borderline hoarder. i am full on, completely committed, save absolutely anything that ever came near me hoarder. 

you want my grade 5 school projects... 

it runs in the family. many years ago, the old man and some of his mates were cleaning up the garage as we were moving. one found a roll of wire netting. it rang a bell. he and dad had each bought a roll back when they each kept chooks 30 years earlier. dad had kept his because you never know.

another 30 years on, it sits in my garage. you never know...

[Thig]

I am not a horder but things do accumulate without you even realizing it. I read once if you run across something you haven't used in a year let it go.

[Fatshotbud]

I don't hoard but Wife ......
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[Fuzz]

I see I am not alone!

Things I have found this past week:

A broken jockey whip from when my grand uncle used to ride at the Hong Kong Jockey Club back in the 1930's, a few old lighters from when my parent used to smoke in the early 1970's, an 1892 10 Reis coin and a 1936 20 Centavos coin, a Grundys Surfer's Paradise amusement token, a stack of payslips from 2005, toys from my childhood, a 1960's Yashica TLR camera, a 1970's Hanimex game console, a 1984 Canon video camera and tuner combo, a bunch of mini DV video cassettes, the original box (empty) for my Sony Discman D-250, a 1980's Radio Shack Ni-Cad battery charger, countless AC chargers and old headphones, comic posters that were never taken out of their plastic sleeves, and the list goes on...

[anacostiakat]

I realized this last week when I came home and my next door neighbor had been evicted.  The amount of rubbish that lined the curb from corner to corner of our block was amazing.