Stuff/junk/ Crap/ Treasures/?

Tom Earp · #1 05-30-2003, 12:24 AM

This was mentioned on a previous thread so want to get an expoundation!

Where do you store all of this "stuff"?

Two bed room duplex:

Second bedroom full of computer Stuff.
Kitchen Table full of stuff
TV Tray by living room Computor stacked with stuff.
Two living room tables stacked with stuff.
Family room, full of stuff!

Now one must realize, all of this stuff is not crap, but treasures!

Hell all of the Stuff is LXA Treasures that I need to find a stuff place for

Damn, even my favs could not come in and do my STUFF Justice in less were here for 6-9 months!!

KillarneyRose · #2 05-30-2003, 12:50 AM

I'm not sentimental and I hate clutter, so I really don't have any excess stuff around the house.

My husband, however, is a packrat. So his study is the depository of all his junk. He has things in there like his record collection (but no record player), his college engineering text books, and a hideously ugly plaid blazer that is never, under any circumstances, ever to leave that room or it will be incinerated.

GMUBunny · #3 05-30-2003, 01:21 AM

I have rubbermaid containers full of ZTA 'treasures'. My room at home looks like an easter basket blew up because of all the stuffed bunnies I got when I pledged. I know my house will have zeta stuff all over whenever I get my own place. My husband (whoever the lucky fellow is) will just have to deal. I'm a total packrat and hold onto everything.

sherbertlemons · #4 05-30-2003, 01:52 AM

Try getting all my junk into a dorm room rougly the size of a walk in closet. Thank god our beds are raised several feet off the floor so we have storage underneath.

My desk is always piled several inches deep in junk, too. My friends also have speculated about the existence of carpet in my room.

Several of my friends are convinced I will someday be buried under a pile of books, cause they're everywhere. Beyond my fiction, which is paperback, I also have big huge heavy film books. So should I ever disappear you'll know where I'll be.

aephi alum · #5 05-30-2003, 08:41 AM

I'm a packrat... my husband is not.

Office/computer room... a mess. Papers, textbooks, and computer stuff everywhere.

Basement... a mess. Boxes and boxes of stuff my parents made me take out of their house when we got our own.

Kitchen counter... a mess. My spices tend not to stay in their cabinet

Master bedroom... parts of it are a mess. Mostly my old clothes that I have to go through and either mend or donate to charity.

The rest of the house is neat as a pin. I may be a packrat, but I confine my clutter to the above mentioned rooms. My husband closes the doors and pretends the clutter doesn't exist

AlphaFrog · #6 05-30-2003, 08:45 AM

Never underestimate the power of shelves....they're great for holding GLO stuff and can increase your storage space (and they don't take up much space themselves!

midwesterngirl · #7 05-30-2003, 09:45 AM

Having just recently moved,I made a commitment to myself.I am a reformed packrat.I decided when I moved,that anything I haven't used in a year,I wasn't going to,so I got rid of it.I thought it would be devastating.It wasn't.It was actually liberating.I too have shelves and shelves of books and cds.They are my weakness.I have 5 personal bookcases,one full of coffee table books,and over 700 cds that are overflowing their shelving.Some things I just can't bring myself to get rid of.

justamom · #8 05-30-2003, 10:17 AM

MY KIDS! MY HUSBAND!

I'm not perfect, (it was only 4 years ago I threw out my HS Pom Pons

) but DANG! I've had to take clothes my hubby won't throw out, hide them for about a year and THEN toss them. He has things from 1980-THIS IS FACT! My daughter is the worst. She has so much crap and she's kind of messy as well. My son goes through stages. It's hard for him, because he's in the phase of HS/Jr H memories and college.

Drawers and MY closet.

Laundry room, garage, under beds...

deltaphi94 · #9 05-30-2003, 04:54 PM

LOL JAM! I feel for ya! My husband has a closet full of things from the 70's. I finally talked him into going through it all, but the man has more clothes than any woman I've ever known.

Now, I have certain things that I'm too fond of to toss, but I can fit those things into a room. Hubby, on the other hand, has 3 rooms and a closet. Not to mention his trophies that are mounted in the garage.

Maybe it's a good thing we have an only child. I'm not sure I could have talked him out of another room.

josh8o · #10 05-30-2003, 05:18 PM

it seems that every year i have more and more crap...cups. pictureframes, random crap from sorority girls, etc. i can not bring myself to ditch it all because it is all kinda cool, and i am just like that...so i get those big rubber made storage contaimers and just fill them up. i have like 2 huge ones at my parents house...

Tom Earp · #11 05-31-2003, 01:04 AM

Even Tho I started this post,

I have no Junk or Crap!!!

All I have is treasures!!!!

Damn, do I need a bigger place house to have more room to put MY treasures!

One of these days, HA, I will have a sale, OMG I am sounding like a suburn type person! Sucks!!! Give me my Junk/Crap or give me Death!!!!!

justamom · #12 05-31-2003, 07:09 AM

George Carlin------STUFF

Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all, a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there. That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time. A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff. And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you're saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That's what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get...more stuff! Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore. Did you ever notice when you go to somebody else's house, you never quite feel a hundred percent at home? You know why? No room for your stuff. Somebody else's stuff is all over the goddamn place! And if you stay overnight, unexpectedly, they give you a little bedroom to sleep in. Bedroom they haven't used in about eleven years. Someone died in it, eleven years ago. And they haven't moved any of his stuff! Right next to the bed there's usually a dresser or a bureau of some kind, and there's NO ROOM for your stuff on it. Somebody else's shit is on the dresser. Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff? God! And you say, "Get that shit offa there and let me put my stuff down!" Sometimes you leave your house to go on vacation. And you gotta take some of your stuff with you. Gotta take about two big suitcases full of stuff, when you go on vacation. You gotta take a smaller version of your house. It's the second version of your stuff. And you're gonna fly all the way to Honolulu. Gonna go across the continent, across half an ocean to Honolulu. You get down to the hotel room in Honolulu and you open up your suitcase and you put away all your stuff. "Here's a place here, put a little bit of stuff there, put some stuff here, put some stuff--you put your stuff there, I'll put some stuff--here's another place for stuff, look at this, I'll put some stuff here..." And even though you're far away from home, you start to get used to it, you start to feel okay, because after all, you do have some of your stuff with you. That's when your friend calls up from Maui, and says, "Hey, why don'tchya come over to Maui for the weekend and spend a couple of nights over here." Oh, no! Now what do I pack? Right, you've gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The third version of your house. Just enough stuff to take to Maui for a coupla days. You get over to Maui--I mean you're really getting extended now, when you think about it. You got stuff ALL the way back on the mainland, you got stuff on another island, you got stuff on this island. I mean, supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain. You get over to your friend's house on Maui and he gives you a little place to sleep, a little bed right next to his windowsill or something. You put some of your stuff up there. You put your stuff up there. You got your Visine, you got your nail clippers, and you put everything up. It takes about an hour and a half, but after a while you finally feel okay, say, "All right, I got my nail clippers, I must be okay." That's when your friend says, "Aaaaay, I think tonight we'll go over the other side of the island, visit a pal of mine and maybe stay over." Aww, no. NOW what do you pack? Right--you gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The fourth version of your house. Only the stuff you know you're gonna need. Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hanky, pen, smokes, rubber and change. Well, only the stuff you HOPE you're gonna need.

tinydancer · #13 05-31-2003, 09:18 AM

HAHAHAHA
I was just thinking about that while reading that thread.

Yeah, I have WAY too much stuff. That's pobably one of the reasons that I lose everything I lay my hands on.

Tom Earp · #14 06-03-2003, 11:38 PM

I almost started to move some of my many treasures to a neat place.

Alas, I moved it from some places to others!

May try again this Sun. Maybe!!!

May try instead to drive to Topeka to see Eric Conard instead!!!!

Damn, anything to not have to move my stuff!

I move it, then I have to look all over for it again!

Oh, I do have some Junk, but just cannot part with it!