What kind of stuff do you keep?

While cleaning out my apartment for a move, I've discovered that i'm a packrat...

someof the things i've elected to keep..

my kayak, rollerblades, 100 feet of static rapelling rope and a harness, 6 tennis balls, 1 p-90 laptop , 3 kayak paddles, 4 old boxing gloves, an old guitar, a broken 52 inch projection tv, a broken drying machine and 16 non-matching socks.. I threw away alot of other junk!

btw, i cant play the guitar, rollerblades hurt my feet, i cant put a kayak on top my car.

I collect all the tickets from every movie I have ever been to.

No, in fact my wife always complains that I throw everything away if it doesn't have much immediate need to me.

Originally posted by Meowloud
I collect all the tickets from every movie I have ever been to.

i do that by girlfriend...if i break up with one, then i throw away the tickets until the next one comes along and i start saving up again....it's a GREAT way to keep track of dates and what you did on those dates

EDIT: oh yea, and i collect Marlboro miles....some day...SOME DAY i'll get that pool table!!!

Oh, I just threw away a few thousand in old Computer books, but I don't think i'll have a need for NT4, and Netware books ever again.. and they are HEAVY

my wife is the worst packrat ,i did have a two car garage now i have a built in shed.every time she goes on a trip i take atleast 2 truck loads to the salvation army.she leaving in may to go to philly for two weeks i'm having a yard sell

BRx8, I like the mini discussion going on in your sig :)

I keep sentimental items from ex's also.. letters and cards mostly

Originally posted by JasonHamilton
BRx8, I like the mini discussion going on in your sig :)

thanks...the molestor of my signature will one day be apprehended and justice shall be brought forth...or until i think of something clever to replace it with

i'm a horrible packrat. Clothes and shoes mostly.
My husband is bad about computer and R/C stuff.

i still have some of my old underwear from the 6th grade

Originally posted by Winning_BlueRX8
i still have some of my old underwear from the 6th grade I knew I smelled something.

Originally posted by Winning_BlueRX8
i still have some of my old underwear from the 6th grade

were they Underoos? i had Batman, Superman, and Spiderman Underoos...i also always used to tuck my t-shirts under my underwear so i could be more like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman

Originally posted by BRx8
were they Underoos? i had Batman, Superman, and Spiderman Underoos...i also always used to tuck my t-shirts under my underwear so i could be more like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.


Teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half shell, turtle power!

Originally posted by bluesunlion
i'm a horrible packrat. Clothes and shoes mostly.
My husband is bad about computer and R/C stuff.
WOW, the clothes and puter things are exactly our problems.
We both horde these! No wonder we don't have children, we wouldn't have a closet for them!! HA HA!
Not that we ever wear the close or use the electronics... you just never know when you'll need that exact item, therefore, you just can't get rid of it!!!! :D
(My favorite nonsense was the STP sleepers when I was 5ish. They even had the feet in them!)

packrat here. save everything. old concert/sporting event ticket stubs, magazines, electronics, etc.

I have a garage, I just can't get into it. It's like, everything has value to me, except garbage. My wife, on the other hand, is a person who throws it all away. I want to have a garage sale, I just don't have a garage to do it in. :D

I'm genetically a pack rat, one of my dad's uncles was one of those people you read about who lives in an apartment that's packed floor to ceiling with junk with only a narrow aisle to get through the place. When he died they filled 3 dumpsters with junk from his apartment.

My dad inherited the "pack rat gene", and I think I did too...so I tend to have to force myself to throw things away.

My rule is, if I haven't used it or thought about it in a year, then I don't need it. I wish I was better about following it. My most embarrassing example: bought $600 snow skis marked down (and down, and down....) to $19.99. Haven't been skiing in a few years, never bothered to put bindings on them, and they are 10cm longer than I have ever used. It was just too hard to pass up that deal.

Just part of my collection of crap.