HOARDING.....what kind of things do we keep

[Katie77]

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!

 

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.

[injest]

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.

[Katie77]

just for a minute, I can still feel his little head and his soft hair that smelled distinctly like MY baby against my cheek.

Only a mother knows Jess.........

[Kerry]

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!     

[injest]

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!     

maybe that is what is wrong with THIS place! 

too much clutter!

[David In Indy]

I hoard Cody's toys. I can't get rid of them. I buy him new toys and keep all the old ones he no longer plays with. He has his own toy box, with the new toys on the top and the old ones down at the bottom.

That dog. He has about 100 toys and he only plays with a dozen of them. And my cat packs an old dish rag around with him. He has toys too but he prefers that nasty old dish rag. I don't understand it.

[David In Indy]

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?

[injest]

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!

[David In Indy]

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!

Remember the cougar that climbed all over the top of the Mercury Cougar? I have that one on tape too! The cougar growls real loud at the end of the commercial! lol

It's fun sometimes to watch all those old commercials again. Brings back memories.

[David In Indy]

Oh, and remember the gorrilla that jumps on top of the Samsonite luggage? I have that commercial on tape too!