Are You a Pack Rat?

YEP! Big time! I come from a long family line of Pack Rats. It is hereditary, you know. Just plain genetics. I really can't help myself. It never fails, that whenever I finally give in and throw something out that I have been saving "just in case", then I NEED it. So, you see, it really is better to just keep it. Right?

Hi Pose123! I am not a pack rat but my husband and my father is. haha..You should see their stuffs! Oh my, I wish that I can all clean it up, threw or donate whatever can still be used. But I can't even go close to their stuffs without being looked at with dagger eyes! lol.. Take care and have a great day! lovelots..faith

That is a very correct observation of human nature, especially Africans. At least in Europe and America, there is a culture of disposing off unwanted stuff but here we never do that, so we simply end up getting unreasonable attachment to things rather negatively. I think it is foolish to old onto things for the sake of it. In my country, we have a certain tribe that never sloughter their cattle, animals live until they die of natural casues!

I had a friend back home, she still had the coffee table that had a stereo in it that they bought when they got married 45 years ago, on top of it was 2 tvs that did not work and she had vcrs up the butt, anything she got when it broke she kept it. Her house was piled up with junk, and the garage was the same way. She once told me that when she was small they really had nothing but the bare essentials to get by on, so when she married she just kept adding to the pile, she didn't want to get rid of anything, it was like taking a part of her away. The hurricane fixed that, when it took her home. They are in a new place now and she said it was time to live in the future now instead of the past. I know how she felt, after the hurricane when we got a place to live, I went and bought the same canasters and the same dishes and the same type of everything, I guess I was trying to hold onto a life that was gone. Now I hate the dishes and the canasters, I want new and to get away from that life we had there, it is gone and need to move on.

I am a huge pack rat. I have so much stuff that I have nowhere to put it. I just have such a hard time parting with things. I do think it is important to hold onto things that remind us of another era in our lives especially if it was good memories.

I think I may be a pack rat as I have trouble parting with things that I have amassed over the years.I cant help but wonder if there will come a time when I will need the item and it an emotional time for me to dicard some items that I have .Granted if I am running out of space or it causing a rat infestation then I will discard the item like I have recently had to do with some of my old notebooks

Somewhat. I keep things that I really love, and I stock up on a lot of stuff. I think that there are other people in this world who are bigger pack rats than I am.

I can only keep stuff for so long then it starts getting on my nerves. In fact I'm in the process of sorting out some stuff right now. Some times it takes a while for me to decide that stuff is getting to be too much. I've seen some of those who are packrat on TV. those have a garage full of stuff. That would drive me crazy. My granddaughter lives with me and sometimes her collecting stuff really gets to me. She collect pop bottles, Superman memorabilia and Tigger stuff. some doesn't bother me but there is a point that enough is enough. I used to collect craft magazines and ideas but usually ended up tossing them because I wan'r doing them. Now I've learned not to collect them because I know I would not do them.

I can be a packrat but eventually I determine when it's time to throw something away. I see no point in wasting something that you can use later. I mean, why make it more difficult or make yourself spend money on something that you can use later if you save things? However, if after awhile I realize that it's not going to be of any use, I will get rid of it in some way.

I think I am but I don't hold on to something for a really really long time unless I needed it. I don't easily throw things away but after I realized that it doesn't have any worth then I will eventually throw it away.

I live in the present ,and I always try to donate items that are no longer useful to me ,but they might be usuful to somebody else. I hate clutter ,so this is a way to prevent my house from ending up invaded by too many items.

its not really healthy to keep alot of old things i really dont keep old crap around i mosrtly sell it away for easy cash on hand , my mom on the other hand doesnt i swear she keeps crap , everything from old plates to old clothes , and wont sell her own clothes from the 80s and 70s lol ughh its just a mess of things