I hate throwing things away

[steinooo]

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!

 

[steinooo]

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!!

 

[steinooo]

cheers westy - I want some of that guy's throwing-away-attitude!

 

[steinooo]

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!).

not bad...suppose I could judge things on a "well I've had a good £xx.xx worth of this N64 box" <- (!)

 

[steinooo]

I still have my zx81, if people threw their old stuff away we wouldn't have any antiques.

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.

 

[steinooo]

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

yes!! good point!!! Aargh dont give me reasons to keep stuff

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