well.... My husband hoards string.
when we clean out the tool rooms and tack rooms I throw them away and he goes thru the trash sacks and gets them all back out. I mean, seriously, what can you do with an eight inch length of frayed thread??
Thats funny Jess....yeah, I think men are probably worse than us women. God knows what they have hidden away in their sheds and tool rooms. Oh and men who live on the land, are worse than anyone.
Now I bet your hubby could give you at least ten good uses for that 8" of frayed thread.
Hahahaaa.....I can see this is going to bring out some really funny stories......
Have you seen the shows on TV, Jess, about compulsive hoarders......i saw one the other day, where there was so much rubbish in the house that the husband had collected, that he and his wife bought a trailer to park beside the house to live in........NOW........the trailer is getting full of stuff and they are running out of room in that.
Talk about an understanding wife........she deserves a medal. (which no doubt her hubby has plenty of somewhere in his collection)
Oh, and just on a serious note, I am not laughing at the particular mental illness associated with these extreme cases, it is no laughing matter, and the "illness" is just as devastating as any other illness....but it is quite an eye opener and amazing just how it affects someone and to what extremes they get to.
We may laugh, I guess at these hubbys who save string, but I wonder what those hubbys would think if they saw all the stuff us girls have stashed away, just about things to do with our beloved Brokeback Mountain......(now tell the truth, we all have them) ::) ::)
I have fan fic stories I have printed out and bound with covers, an enormous collection of printed fan art, curtesy of Lucise's thread, not to mention the postcards that Brokies have sent me and little trinkets like cowboy hats on chains and little tents hanging on string. Not to mention 3 copies of the short story, and 2 copies of the dvd.
Now those things I will never throw out.....
Rubber bands and cardboard boxes. ::)
You never know when you're going to need a rubber band or a good, strong cardboard box. ... 8)
Rubbers,may I dare mention that ? !!
What kind of rubbers?
I know that is the term you use for condoms, but here in Australia, we call an eraser a "rubber"....so when we send our kids off to school we send them with pencils, pencil sharpener and rubbers.
And there are all different shapes, sizes and colours of rubbers so a lot of kids collect them too.
we have rubber boots we wear when it is wet and muddy out. we call them rubbers...
We call them "gum boots"........dont ask me why...dont know where the gum part came from....
we have rubber boots we wear when it is wet and muddy out. we call them rubbers...
We call them "gum boots"........dont ask me why...dont know where the gum part came from....
Well looks like "rubber" and "gum" have the same meanings all over the place.
Now I came in to tell you about the hoarding habits of my mum.
When she buys a new appliance, such as an iron, toaster, electric frypan, she finds it difficult to throw the old one away. So, what she does is take the new one out of the box, and uses it, and puts the old one IN that same box, and then stores it away in the garage or in a cupboard.
There you go Jess, you might have something useful in those old car manuals after all.
Another thing I've noticed that I have quite a collection of now, and that is computer discs.
I have them from my first computer, printer, mouse, keyboards, scanners, and any subsequent updates I have owned. They just seem too important to throw out.
Injest you say:
I have the owners manual from every car I ever had, I have user manuals for VCRs I dont' own anymore, stereos, cameras....
............
Sell them at auctions or one auction that will accept them ? Or on the internet ?
Some car manuals are needed, especially for old cars !
Au revoir,
hugs!
all this talk of hoarding got me motivated and I went thru my files and threw away a whole garbage bag full of papers (and that was just the FIRST cut!!) I need to got thru it all better but I wanted to cull things I KNEW I didn't need anymore. :P
I didn't throw away a paper I found where D had wrote "I luv yu vere lot" when he was a kindergartener though...I saved that!
*Jess's heart melting*
I have one of his masterpieces from when he first started drawing...He was VERY controlled no wild scribbling for him..he would get a sheet of paper, pick out a crayon and intently lean over the table, make a TINY little mark in the middle of the paper (sometimes a circle if he was feeling really uninhibited) and call it finished!
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I have one of his masterpieces from when he first started drawing...He was VERY controlled no wild scribbling for him..he would get a sheet of paper, pick out a crayon and intently lean over the table, make a TINY little mark in the middle of the paper (sometimes a circle if he was feeling really uninhibited) and call it finished!
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And that precisely Jess, is why we hoard things. Because when we look at those drawings our kids did way back then, we have them back, just for a moment, as they were then.
just for a minute, I can still feel his little head and his soft hair that smelled distinctly like MY baby against my cheek.
By nature, I'm not a hoarder. I hate clutter. It makes for very adverse feng shui. I like things to be neat and in their place. I'm not a minimalist, however. I like a room to be decorated, not barren. I like my cupboards to be neat and ordered, but I find that's sometimes very difficult to maintain. Out of sight, out of mind! ;) ;D
I also hoard old VCR tapes. I have hundreds of them. Boxes of them. Many of them are tapes of movies from HBO and Showtime I taped way back in the 1980's. Some of them are from local channels I taped and they still have the old commercials on them.
"You deserve a break today. So get up and get away.... to McDonalds!"
Remember that one?
yep!! sometimes the commercial are the coolest thing ON those tapes!
I kinda feel sorry for people today that skip the commercials...some of them were/are pretty neat!
Oh, and remember the gorrilla that jumps on top of the Samsonite luggage? I have that commercial on tape too!
What the HELL this conversation has to do with hoarding, I'll never know! ::)
Sorry about that everyone! It's just another example of one of those threads gone OT. :(
we are talking about hoarding ol commercials!!
;D ;D
Haha! Yup! :D
That's what we're doing! Remember Clara from the Wendy's commercials?
"WHERE'S THE BEEF? WHEEEEEERE'S THE BEEF? I don't think there's anyone back there."
I have that one on tape too Jess! :laugh:
I hoard pms and emails from my friends. ;D
So do I! Just after I read this post from you I looked up at the top and I have 1419 messages in there! Phillip isn't probably too happy about that! >:(
Oh I just thought of another commercial I have on tape Jess. It's a Coke commercial from the early 1980's. It's the Christmas commercial where everyone is standing with a candle, and they form a Christmas tree and they are singing "I'd Like to Teach The Wolrd to Sing". I LOVE that commercial! :)
So do I! Just after I read this post from you I looked up at the top and I have 1419 messages in there! Phillip isn't probably too happy about that! >:(
Gee......Ive got 208 messages there, and Ive been waiting for the "clear them or u lose your membership letter".......
You two have been having a wonderful time reminiscing about those old commercials.....Ive had a good giggle reading your posts here.
Okay I know I am off track but speaking of old commercials..well kind of. My second favourite restaurant is called the Fish n Chip Shop, its like a step back to the 70's, its got formica tables (trust ya know what I mean), patterned orange wall paper, ducks on the wall (please tell me you've seen Hilda Ogden's house from Coronation Street), all the decor from 60's and 70's basically. But what really adds to the "ambience" is the huge old brown box type tv's running black and white commercials from the 60's and 70's. Oh the memories... ;D
Now, mainly books.
And emails (I need to clean out some of my email inboxes).
I find that as I get older, I care less for clutter.. so I have forced myself to get rid of a whole lot of stuff.
That said, there are items in my basement right now that I could do without. :)
Oh yes.....my email......I dont think to clean out the inbox until I get a message from my server that my mailbox is nearly full....and then, all I do, is delete them, and they end up in my "deleted email box"....I always think, I might need that email for something....what?...I dont know....Maybe thats why my computer runs so slow, all the stuff I have collected and dont want to throw out........I have created my own cyber box of, "cant throw that out" stuff.
The thing with email accounts, I find, is that you get so much storage these days.
Because I am in no danger of running out of space, I never get around to cleaning out old messages...
that and the thought that I may need to go back to an old email for one reason or other (even though that happens very infrequently).. :)
THAT is EXACTLY what I mean.......sure as eggs, as soon as I delete it, I will need it....... ::)
well lets say I DO need one of the 20,000 emails I have saved...
how the heck would I find it?
Oh yes.....my email......I dont think to clean out the inbox until I get a message from my server that my mailbox is nearly full....and then, all I do, is delete them, and they end up in my "deleted email box"....I always think, I might need that email for something....what?...I dont know....Maybe thats why my computer runs so slow, all the stuff I have collected and dont want to throw out........I have created my own cyber box of, "cant throw that out" stuff.
well lets say I DO need one of the 20,000 emails I have saved...
how the heck would I find it?
Do what I did, Sue, and open yourself a Yahoo account. It's free and has unlimited storage. I have thousands of emails in my Yahoo account. :D