Hoarding?

gimmick

I just took it upon myself to tidy out my wardrobe a while ago. I thought it may take 30mins at the most. I only then realised how much crap I had stored away there, most notably magazines. Id say I must have bagged 100 mags a while ago, all to go to the recycler in the morning. Loaded, FHM, FourFourTwo magazines were the majority, along with the odd Esquire (godawful rubbish), GQ and Maxim also.

I also found a load of old match programmes. I forgot I have such a good collection. Must have 250-300 (small in real collectors terms i know), but happy with that all the same.

In addition, I must have about 300-400 old Hardcore (music) tapes from the early 90s, of which a good 100 have been culled in this spring clean.

Found some amusing notes as well from school days, wrought with teenage angst, and stroppiness. Cringe inducing stuff, which has been put away for me to find again in 8 years time.

Anyone else hoard???

Nightwish

i have loads of newspapers.i never seem to throw them out.i moved house recently and found all the sh!te ive been hoarding down through the years-primary school copies and communion cards and the like.saying that i brought them all with me-i never took the opportunity to throw them out, i just couldnt

DonkeyStyle \o/

I used to hoard all kinds of crap... for either sentimental value, or incase it could come in handy some day. <- Ah yes! the hoarders mantra right there!
You have to be tough with yourself and get rid of all the crap.
Questions that help in this process are:
1). If the house was on fire, what would I save from this room?
2). If the house was broken into and this stuff was robbed would I really give a shít?
3). Is it worth losing X amount of space in my home to this junk?
4). Will it ever really come in handy? It hasn't come in handy at all in the past 15 years it's been sitting there.

Or one method that really worked for me was when I was standing there with item x in my hand thinking "aaww, but I don't really want to throw this out"... I would break it, so then it would be 100% useless and I'd have to throw it out.
So the fun of breaking it was greater than my desire to hang on to it... strange, but it works.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Also try to think of it as making space for having new things come into your life... instead of holding on to things from the past.

kasintahan

Buy yourself a good Scanner, a digital camera and a DVD writer and 2 brands of blank DVD+R's.

Scan in (at high res) all your paper doucuments/photos that you could do without.
Photograph all the useless clutter that will never be used and isn't of MAJOR sentimental value.

Burn the scans and photos to DVD TWICE to both brands of disk (for saftey).

Junk the rubbish.