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[C.Ann]

 

[browneyes]

If you find out how to reform, let me know. My dd is a packrat.

 

[Serena]

A friend of our hires my oldest to help her around her farm and house. My dd throws things away without her seeing them. She is a serious packrat. she has never thrown a newspaper or magazine away, ever.

 

[DocRafiki]

Donate anything usable and take a tax deduction.


I have one room dedicated solely to boxes and the litterbox. I throw things out in phases. What I may keep this time around might get tossed the next time, even though I haven't used it in 10 years. I think I have to have a certain comfortable level of JUNK around or I will feel uneasy.

Now who wants my collection of SPIN magazines from 10 years ago?

 

[cmbelle]

After our fourth move, I finally made my DH throw away a saved Hardee's steak biscuit wrapper. He saved the wrapper because he had eaten a steak and egg biscuit with mayo on his senior trip in high school - ah, what memories. But IMHO, we are all pack rats because of "The Antiques Roadshow". Goodness only knows how we'd feel if we sold some piece of junk for $1 at a yard sale and it turns out to be some $100,000 one-of-a-kind artifact!!

 

[C.Ann]

 

[JasonLyons]

wheeeew I thought you where the camp murderer

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by JasonLyons
wheeeew I thought you where the camp murderer

Makes you wonder what she's got packed, doesn't it.

 

[C.Ann]

Shhhhhhhh.. I already said this "stuff" is hard to get rid of..

 

[browneyes]

LOL! It's a good thing you buried the hatchet with those chair stealin' neighbors of yours.

 

[Serena]

But where exactly did she bury the hatchet?????

 

[browneyes]

Good question, Laurie. C.Ann, where DID you bury the hatchet?

 

[WillyJ]

Well, you could go through all the trouble of sorting through things and cleaning it all out. . .

. . but I would think the easiest way to deal with it is to light the house on fire and collect the insurance money. .

 

[glo]

 

[DocRafiki]

I finally made my DH throw away a saved Hardee's steak biscuit wrapper.

LOL! I thought only girls did that! I've got equally silly stuff, but that's what scrapbooks are for.

 

[jimmybop]

Now who wants my collection of SPIN magazines from 10 years ago?

how can u throw away spin magazine from 10 years ago? that is when music was good... Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam...