I hate throwing things away

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Hi all,

Not posted round this way for a bit - thought i'd say hi and get something off my chest if I may, and to perhaps get a bit of reassurance!

I hate throwing things away.

I'm moving house soon from my parents' to my first house which i've just bought....and I'm currently in the process of going through old stuff to bin, keep, sell or send to a charity shop. I hate it!!! I never thought i'd have a problem with parting with old games, toys, medals, badges, widgery gadgetmagoos or anything, but I'm finding it hard to chuck stuff. Heck - I just spent serious consideration as to whether to chuck my N64's BOX or not!!!

I keep thinking one of the following,

a) I spent money on this, i dont want to throw it away or
b) I used to love this, i dont want to throw it away or
c) I might need this, i dont want to throw it away.

Please someone tell me i'm not on my own!
 
I think the same kind of thing, but i also think:

'Will I REALLY need this?'

if you can't see a use for it, be brutal and chuck it.
 
glad i'm not alone so far.

example: I dont know why I would ever possibly need a 56K modem again....but I remember that it cost my mum and dad £30 so I dont want to chuck it!! :(
 
chuck it. if you need another one (which i doubt) then they're cheap as chips.

I normally only keep something if its incredibly hard to find, and i would probably use it.
 
a) You bought it, you've used its 'value', you can now throw it away assuming it's reached a value of zero (otherwise sell it on fleebay!).

b) You used to love it, now you don't, throw it away.

c) You won't use it again.

I used to be exactly like you. Then one summer I came back from uni and started to tidy up my room. I ended up filling six bin bags full of items that I didn't really want to throw away and put them outside for the bin men. Looking back several years later, I can't name one thing which I wish i didn't chuck out.
 
NickXX said:
a) You bought it, you've used its 'value', you can now throw it away assuming it's reached a value of zero (otherwise sell it on fleebay!).
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not bad...suppose I could judge things on a "well I've had a good £xx.xx worth of this N64 box" <- (!)
 
I'm the same, especially with bits of paper and what not.

I have loads of college notes and letter lying around and occupying a drawer of a chest of drawers I actually have to throw out (as it's minging) and the only thing stopping me is it's full of bits of papers I might need and I have nowhere for them :(
 
Cybermyk said:
I still have my zx81, if people threw their old stuff away we wouldn't have any antiques.
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good point - the only thing i've never chucked away are consoles. I have SNES, Atari ST, N64 and I still use my cube. I was gutted when I had to have my (broken) Spectrum +2 taken away from me.
 
Im the same, iv just moved house and clearing out my old room was like a nightmare!!! I didnt want to throw anything away..Just incase i need it. Another thing that stops me from throwing things away is I panic that it was a gift from someone and they will ask if iv still got it lol
 
Landfill to be honest.

When we moved to the house we have now from our flat we had to *cough* recycle *cough* 48 bags of crap (some of the choices were hard)

Of and we actually did recycle a fair bit...
 
stokefan said:
cheers westy - I want some of that guy's throwing-away-attitude!
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:D works for me - I managed to get 5 binbags of rubbish from my room about a week ago.

Sorted the paper out - filled 2 more bags.

If you've used something and got all you can from it, take it to a charity shop. It can bring someone else a whole load more pleasure.
 
Haylee Jayne said:
Another thing that stops me from throwing things away is I panic that it was a gift from someone and they will ask if iv still got it lol
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yes!! good point!!! Aargh dont give me reasons to keep stuff :P

Welcome to OcUK by the way :D
 
I used to be really bad, but then I satarted working out what the stuff was really worth.

I.E. I cant throw this console away, it cost me £300! But then again I've had it 3 years and its worth effecively nothing, so thats a loss of around 27p per day(?)!
Time to cut losses and ditch the stuff!
 
i know what you mean mate, but im trying to be good over the last year or so and i am binning/selling stuff. Ive even got shut of my piles of college and uni work
 
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