Are you a hoarder?

caustic 1

Today I am cleaning out the spare room/office/crafts/den. Having a tea break now. Everything that was in there a lot of stuff is now in the hall, and I just know I am going to end up putting everything back in only a little tidier.

Kids school stuff posters etc, two sewing machines, first aid kitt which I cleared out jeez there was stuff in from 2002 in there, Pictures and frames, filling cabinets, two photo copiers, pram, knitting stuff, cooler box for beach cot, washing for ironing, ironing board etc etc etc.

I think I need someone to come in with a skip and just put all in there.

Are you a hoarder?

The Backwards Man

I have all my notes and stuff from secondary school in a big chest. Not that I'm a hoarder or anything, just too lazy to get rid of it.

caustic 1

I have some stuff from school and that's 30 years ago, I mean why?

krudler

Used to be, then moved house and chucked everything, you could fit all of my possessions bar my car into my bedroom, minimal living ftw!

Ruu

The mammy keeps all my stuff from school at the house in one of the empty rooms. Not much of a hoarder myself.

AnonoBoy

Given that I'm very peckish right now I'm more interested in hors d'oeuvres than hoarders if you catch my drift.

*chuckle* *chuckle* *pushes glasses up nose*

kylith

I am a bit. I cleaned out my junk room and found two bags of recycling that had been put away for safe keeping when I missed the collection one week. They were behind a dismantled bed and some old cupboards.

Canis Lupus

This:

**Vai**

Ruubot2 wrote: »

The mammy keeps all my stuff from school at the house in one of the empty rooms. Not much of a hoarder myself.

Cleared my childhood room a while back and my own house is free of clutter. When something becomes useless I throw it out. Can never understand why people dont. The OH has a touch of clothes/shoes hoarding but I think thats women in general.

WoollyRedHat

I'm an internet hoarder.

SuperGrover

What's the opposit of a hoarder. A get-rid-ofer? That's me.

IvySlayer

I'm a hoarder, still have my sea monkey tank from when I have a child

mattjack

IvySlayer wrote: »

I'm a hoarder, still have my sea monkey tank from when I have a child

You had a child with a sea monkey ?

kylith

IvySlayer wrote: »

I'm a hoarder, still have my sea monkey tank from when I have a child

It might come in handy yet

mike65

I still have artwork going back to school/college, magazines from the late 70s to the early 2000s and loads of books and stuff from the year dot (inherited). I refuse to throw out any media material so I have things like a copy of the first "the European" newspaper and the last edition of Today newspaper.

DaveDaRave

How many whores would a hoarder hoard if a hoarder could hoard whores.

Turtyturd

Hordor Hordor.

El Guapo!

I just don't like getting rid of stuff.

As we speak I'm playing with a vtech computer that I got in 1991. Seriously.
I just found it the other day and it still works perfectly.

partyatmygaff

Boxes of old notes and books going back to Primary school. Too attached to the older stuff to throw it away.

pragmatic1

No as a consequence of my father having a serious issue with hoarding. Does my fcukin head in. Hate it.

DoozerT6

No. Bit of the opposite going on with me. In fact my apartment is a bit spartan! My parents moved from the family home a good few years back and basically everything that I wanted to keep from my childhood that was in the old house, I put into two of those pretty cardboard-y storage boxes you can buy, and they took those to the new house (attic ftw!). I then took them when I got my own place.

I have very few ornaments in my apartment (I think a direct result of my mother feeling that every piece of furniture had to be covered with trinkets!) and no pictures on my wall (ditto), in fact I think the place could do with a bit of warming up must get onto that...

Having said that, every so often I have looked through the boxes that I kept - old letters, school reports, ticket stubs, souvenirs, etc...and it is nice to reminisce too

krudler

I used to hoard magazines and stuff but recycled all of them, dont buy books anymore since i got a kindle, stopped buying movies since i got a decent net connection and netflix etc. I used to think "oh i'll use that again" when I attempted to throw stuff out and you just wind up with even more stuff so was ruthless one time and lobbed everything away bar things I actually use and wear. never looked back.

IM0

parents are hoarders. so Im the opposite \o/ *breaths calmly*

DonkeyStyle \o/

I hoard computer cables and old magazine cover CD's.
Hey, you never know when I might need Acrobat Reader from 1999 or a 30-day trial of Flash 4.
Thankfully they don't take up much space.

starlit

Number one hoarder i say at this stage.... :O :O

Ace Attorney

I keep all the boxes of my electronic goods or whatever and store them erratically in the spare room, I cant bring myself to throw them out

I've been using a Kindle for a couple of years at this point, but I still can't throw out a book. My shelves are full of books I've read,and I can't bring myself to throw any of them out or pass any of them on. Even the ones I know I'll never look at again.

I don't have a problem with anything else, just the books.

emzolita

speaking of hoarders, turn on channel TLC, (UPC channel 121) atm, PUKE!

Odysseus

I worked with one client who's wife was a serious hoarder, it was the worst case I ever saw in all my years working. They where eventually evicted by the council over it. The poor guy had to rent a bedsit in order to have a shower, I think the bathroom was full of old magazines.

There was literally no available space left in the house, by they where where evicted. It is an interesting disorder, by it can have a severe impact on the lives of those who live with the hoarder.

Ruudi_Mentari

No; everything must go. Purge stuff

keith16

HODOR!

woodoo

SuperGrover wrote: »

What's the opposit of a hoarder. A get-rid-ofer? That's me.

I'm the same. I quite enjoy clearing out my stuff from time to time. Old clothes and bits and pieces. I'm so bad at clearing out my bedroom drawer of things i have dumped important letters a few times.

xzanti

No, I hate clutter..

delthedriver

Yes I am a hoarder.
Living ,commuting between locations, I find it hard to carry out a purge on things. Duplicate CD's, books, cassette tapes cameras, telephone chargers, remote controls, keys, clothes, shoes, suitcases, laptops both new and old......the list goes on.

Have tried over the years to offload clothes and shoes into Charity recycle bins, other than that I have never carried out an absolute clear out.

A clear out is badly needed, now where did I leave my laptop bag?:)

Odysseus

DaveDaRave wrote: »

How many whores would a hoarder hoard if a hoarder could hoard whores.

Remember that ad for milk, "Them bones, them bones need calcium" it started off with the line "How many bones as an adult got?"

Well try signing the above with that starting line sounds catchy

J. Marston

Does hoarding in Skyrim count? Because if it does, then I have serious problems.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Odysseus wrote: »

Remember that ad for milk, "Them bones, them bones need calcium" it started off with the line "How many bones as an adult got?"

For the under-30's who weren't exposed to that creepy fucking ad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

tomthetank

I'm the opposite, a chronic de-clutterer.

I HATE clutter, it makes me feel claustrophobic and unorganised and am pretty ruthless about chucking stuff out routinely, often to my detriment.

delthedriver

tomthetank wrote: »

I'm the opposite, a chronic de-clutterer.

I HATE clutter, it makes me feel claustrophobic and unorganised and am pretty ruthless about chucking stuff out routinely, often to my detriment.

I understand the fear of detrimentally throwing something out. Hence my loft spaces are full of stuff. If the weather is bad tomorrow I plan to attack one of the lofts........

starlit

I clutter everything even if it only a few things or a lot of things no matter the space!

Trebor176

Back in 2009, I had to get rid of 13 years worth of (weekly) car magazines, and some others that took up space in my wardrobe. They were in storage boxes, but I had to give in and just get rid of them. And, the magazines have started to build once again because I've been too lazy to do another clear out, but another load went out the other day. I'll get rid of the rest at some stage, when I actually bother to do so. Maybe if I had my own place, I may have found somewhere for them all, but I guess I came to the realisation that I'd probably not get a chance to read through them all again.

xzanti

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

For the under-30's who weren't exposed to that creepy fucking ad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

What was that thing even supposed to be? :eek:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Yeah I would be. Occasionally ill get into fits of rage and do a giant clear out but yeah - I keeps everything

kylith

Candie wrote: »

I've been using a Kindle for a couple of years at this point, but I still can't throw out a book. My shelves are full of books I've read,and I can't bring myself to throw any of them out or pass any of them on. Even the ones I know I'll never look at again.

I don't have a problem with anything else, just the books.

I couldn't even think of getting rid of my books. I genuinely don't understand how anyone would want to. Books are too precious.

MurdyWurdy

kylith wrote: »

I couldn't even think of getting rid of my books. I genuinely don't understand how anyone would want to. Books are too precious.

I have an ereader but horde books as well - I can't get rid of them and like seeing them on the shelves, even if I don't think i'll re- read them.

Tbh, I find it a bit weird when you go to people's houses and they've no books anywhere.

Ruudi_Mentari

I don't seem to have any room to store my Bape edition Optimus Prime, what with all the other Limited edition Japanese figurines and the, My Little Ponies.

Bet i can find space for holy grail that is the the Pink unicorn though, should I ever obtain it

DonkeyStyle \o/

xzanti wrote: »

What was that thing even supposed to be? :eek:

I think it's one of those artist's mannequins? Makes sense since they kids look like they're drawing in the ad.
Never seen a life-sized one before, and I sure as hell had no idea what it was supposed to be when I was a kid watching it.