Hoarders

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I have pretty much every magazine I've ever bought or subscribed to (I did get rid of the Tiger Beats when I cleaned out Mom & Dad's house). That's the main thing. Oh, and the makeup and beauty supplies, although there are people online WAY younger than me with WAY bigger amounts of it. It reminds of the joke that I think Richard Jeni told about the Internet making you feel normal - that if you type in "sex with goat" it responds "specify type of goat."

It's all neat though, one of my friends said one time "your makeup is SO organized!" I was like hello, I couldn't find anything otherwise.

Out of sheer curiosity - because my hubby used to hang on to magazines that he never looked at ever again, and I couldn't stand piles of magazines - why do you keep them all? Are they of sentimental or collector value? Can you scan in articles you like then get rid of the rest? Does it disrupt part of your house?

I get nervous around too much clutter. I think it's bc I am claustrophobic.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Out of sheer curiosity - because my hubby used to hang on to magazines that he never looked at ever again, and I couldn't stand piles of magazines - why do you keep them all? Are they of sentimental or collector value? Can you scan in articles you like then get rid of the rest? Does it disrupt part of your house?

I get nervous around too much clutter. I think it's bc I am claustrophobic.

Sentimental value. Of course in the past few years it's been obvious that people will pay $$$ for this stuff, but I was holding onto them way before that was even a concept and my parents said "why on earth are you keeping those?" When I cleaned out my parents' house, I found that the things I just couldn't get rid of were my books (from all age ranges).

Scanner? Don't own one. And keeping an article or whatever is not the point - the point is having the magazine in your hands. (Needless to say, I won't be getting a Kindle anytime soon. The idea kind of makes my skin crawl.)

Everything's in one closet - very organized and not messy-cluttered - and if I ever needed to free up the closet so Clive Owen could come and shack up with me, it would be easy to do so. And yeah, I do go back to look for things occasionally.

I think this is part of only child-dom. When you never 1) need to make space for the new baby 2) never need to worry about siblings messing up your stuff, you tend to have more stuff. It'd be very interesting to do a study on hoarders/collectors and birth order.