excell Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I'm cleaning up my basement, which is where I store pretty much everything I've ever accrued in the 23 years I've been alive. I have about 20 boxes of various things I've collected throughout the years, most of it dumb shit that I just have emotional attachments to from when I was a teen, that I don't want to get rid of. But as I sort and move things around my basement, I feel some remorse just sealing up box after box and stacking them in the corner. What do you do with all of the things you have collected through the years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Go ahead and box them up. Then, about once a year, get drunk and look through them all, and laugh at hoe much you have matured. At least, that's what I have been doing. A lot changes between 23 and 29. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan9381 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 ive got stuff like that. i hate to throw anything away for that exact reason. i went thru my room the other day getting it emptied for new carpet, and i was amazed at how much absolute shit i found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotarded1647545491 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ah yes....the baseball cards, crafts from summer camp, the powder blue liesure suit, your first Pert bottle............ACK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I had an assload of Garbage Patch kids cards.. I think I tossed them out a LONG time ago.. which sucks too . I bet they'd be worth something now. (doubtfully). Depends on what it is Chris. I'd hold on to the stuff like Vinny said. Get drunk one night and go through the stuff and start laughing at it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad is Dead Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Just get rid of them...i threw away a bunch of stuff about a year ago that I thought I would miss. I haven't even thought about it till now and I don't care that they're gone now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Consolodate, seal, and archive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31rx7 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ooh, you really hit a hot button with me! Please bear with me on this rant, as I have just spent the better part of a weekend organizing and boxing up and throwing away! I have been married to a wonderful woman for (coincidentally) over 23 years, and plan on staying married for another 50 or so, Lord willing. Her one flaw? She keeps EVERYTHING, valuable or not, for "...the memories". I love her dearly, but after 23 years of marriage, our house is full of crap. Our closets and cabinets are full. We have school papers from when the kids were in grade school - they are now 17 and 20. We have almost all their toys and games - most are broken and missing pieces. We have some of her grandmother's furniture - real junk that is pressboard with fake woodgrain. We have Christmas decorations that have not come out of boxes for years. And it goes on. Most of it ends up in the basement. It is not to the point where it is obsessive, but there are days I wonder! When ever she is gone for a few days, I go through and throw out stuff. She has yet to notice anything missing. Don't confuse keeping junk around with memories. At your age you have more to look forward to than to look behind on! Thanks for listening. It may have not done much for you, but I am much better now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 throw it away dude, the past is the past.... no since in harping on it... it will do nothing but depress you... the older you get, the more depressing it is. How can you move forward if you keep on looking back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I don't keep anything like that. If my parents what it, cool. Otherwise, if I haven't used it within the year I throw it away. I can't justify keeping crap just to move it from place to place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRN96WS6 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I don't keep things like that and I definitely do not have boxes if things from when I was small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ebay that shiznit! I do have some stuff that keeps hanging around though. Never get rid of pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 i agree with 31rx7. my mom and dad are both like that. anyone whos been to my house knows that i have to fight hard not to be like that myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wesxprs Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Chris, I don't know if you have seen my basement or not but the bottom line is, like someone said above, get rid of shit. Even boxing, archiving, saving, whatever you want to call it doesn't work. It all still collects dust and will eventually get in your way. Then when you move, guess what, you have to move it too. I vote trash can!!!!! Wes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble Maker Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yup, throw everything away. IIRC we moved everything I own to our new place in two trips with the van, plus two trips later in my car of stuff I didn't move when we first moved in that I don't use all of the time (ski stuff, hiking stuff, crap I need to sell, etc.). Every time I move somewhere I go through just about everything and throw a bunch of stuff away that I haven't used in a while, that way I don't have to move it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I havent saved anything other than tax records and receipts. I collect nothing nor do I foster sentimental attachments. Waste of time and space. If I cant remember it, it must not have been that important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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