Are you a horder or do you live in a junkless haven?

Cheese Head · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 11.52

I don't know why I ask, I'm bored I suppose.

But anyway, I hord. I like my junk and have boxes of it, I keep meaning to sell it but I get side tracked then start playing with it.

Whats even worse, all the junk I buy is pretty much worthless. Then, even worse than that, I dont learn from these "mistakes" and just "collect" more of it.

*sigh* So do you hord, or do you like to keep stuff down to a minimum?

Gavin Scott · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 12.22

Get rid or you will end up like me: 32 years old having to step over bags of assorted junk when you want to put the kettle on.

Bin it now.

Chris · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 12.30

Cheese Head wrote:I don't know why I ask, I'm bored I suppose.

But anyway, I hord. I like my junk and have boxes of it, I keep meaning to sell it but I get side tracked then start playing with it.

Whats even worse, all the junk I buy is pretty much worthless. Then, even worse than that, I dont learn from these "mistakes" and just "collect" more of it.

*sigh* So do you hord, or do you like to keep stuff down to a minimum?

Why don't you have some kind of garage sale or something?

What are the kinds of things you have?

If you have to get rid of it, then put it on ebay and write a little story about it - e.g. that it's haunted or some stuff like that. Usually drives people to your auction and can bump up the price significantly.

Cheese Head · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 13.09

we will have to when we move. I have diffuculty parting with my junk because I find it... then start playing with it...

I just have stuff like that onnet box I bought and bong i got in skegness (for display purposes only, mind). And stuff like those UFO lamps...

What sort of Assorted junk's in those bags, Gavin?

Gavin Scott · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 13.47

Cheese Head wrote:What sort of Assorted junk's in those bags, Gavin?

Mostly electrics in various states of workingness. Transformers, power supplies, cabling by the, well, bagload. More than that I also have a problem of not being able to throw certain things away. Like giant springs or nuts and bolts. I have no need for them but cant bring myself to bin them.

I just dont have the storage either. I did flog one of my bits of kit on eBay and got an astonishing £340 for it. I know there is money in the room, but I get all tired and lazy after the day's work. I spend as long moving piles of things around as I would just throwing the stuff away.

I have a leather high-back office chair. One of these executive dealies. I (and dont ask why) decided the base of the chair, complete with wheels, was more useful than a chair I have no room for. So I took it apart.

Suffice to say I now have the base of the chair in the living room (getting in the road), and the seat part sitting on the floor in the bedroom.

I despair of me, I really do.

cwathen · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 19.19

I'm a hoarder of all sorts of things, and even like to keep 'souveniers' of things that I've had eg. when I sold my old car I kept the handbook to the radio to 'remember it by', aswell as taking scans of the logbook before selling it.

More alarmingly, I've got boxes in the attic to things which I don't have any more, if I were to replace a faulty bit of equipment I generally wouldn't throw the old one away, but would store it. My house is full of my junk.

Square Eyes · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 20.39

Gavin Scott wrote:
Cheese Head wrote:What sort of Assorted junk's in those bags, Gavin?
Mostly electrics in various states of workingness. Transformers, power supplies, cabling by the, well, bagload. More than that I also have a problem of not being able to throw certain things away. Like giant springs or nuts and bolts. I have no need for them but cant bring myself to bin them.

I just dont have the storage either. I did flog one of my bits of kit on eBay and got an astonishing £340 for it. I know there is money in the room, but I get all tired and lazy after the day's work. I spend as long moving piles of things around as I would just throwing the stuff away.

I have a leather high-back office chair. One of these executive dealies. I (and dont ask why) decided the base of the chair, complete with wheels, was more useful than a chair I have no room for. So I took it apart.

Suffice to say I now have the base of the chair in the living room (getting in the road), and the seat part sitting on the floor in the bedroom.

I despair of me, I really do.

I think we need Kim and Aggie to come round yours Gavin.

I'm a minimalist kind of person, don't have clutter, everything put away in its place.

The problem I do have however, is what to do with documents, such as bills / bank statements etc. For some reason, I have a mistrust of banks and authorities and so like to hoard these documents just in case. Bit daft I know, and if I were to throw them away, I'd have to get a shredder.

Cheese Head · Mon 16 Aug, 2004 23.27

Any documents we know are disposable, we shred. Otherwise, they're filed. I keep all my wage slips, and empty my wallet of receipts (as am doing know) every so...often.