I'm a tosser. I can't stand old magazines around. If I buy something new, the old thing gets tossed. I hate clutter.

My husband on the other hand is a complete lunatic. He likes to save everything, and I mean everything. He saves the boxes that things come in. I'll save the box to a toaster, hair dryer, air conditioner or whatever for a couple of weeks to make sure it's working, but that's it.

I call my husband Fred Sandford. I usually joke about it, but sometimes it really bothers me.

I guess I'm a packrat. :lol: I still have magazines going back to the late 1980's. However, they are magazines I kept for a reason. It wasn't that I was just too lazy or messy to throw them away.

I guess I'm a packrat. :lol: I still have magazines going back to the late 1980's. However, they are magazines I kept for a reason. It wasn't that I was just too lazy or messy to throw them away.
Oh yeah, I have special magazines and newspapers I've saved too.

I'm not a packrat.

I'm a collector.

;)

I guess I'm a Packrat. I've been saving TV Guides since 1983 and I got boxes of them. :lol:

I am definitely a reluctant tosser. It's very hard for me to toss stuff for sentimental reasons, but the neat and clean side of me, always wins out over my sentimental side. My mom and brother are pack rats, while me and my dad are tossers, so I guess I take after him in that regard.

i'm a hopeless packrat - i have receipts from pizza I ordered in 1987.

(the cats LIKE all those boxes anyways)

The only items I collect are videos and TV-DVDs...the rest I toss after a while. I am a confessed anal retentive neat freak and I hate having a lot of unless stuff around...

Definetly a packrat,lol.And I've never heard that expression before.
I buy magazines and keep them.There's one I buy every week,and I have about 200 of them.I still look through them ocassionally,and they are good,so I keep them.

I'm a pack rat but only because I attach some sort of memory to every little thing. It's not that I can't throw anything away but I'm very reluctant to and like to save things. I have a rock, a rock!, that I've had for close to 10 years now because I picked it up from a street in Canada. :lol:

I'm with TJL - I like to consider myself a collector!! :lol:

'Course the avalanche of People magazines in the washroom says otherwise!

I still have the Life and Time magazines from the assassinations of JFK and Bobby Kennedy so it might payoff someday.

I'm a pack rat but only because I attach some sort of memory to every little thing. It's not that I can't throw anything away but I'm very reluctant to and like to save things. I have a rock, a rock!, that I've had for close to 10 years now because I picked it up from a street in Canada. :lol:


I don't blame ya - Canadian rocks....well - they rock!!! :happyface

I guess you could say I'm a selective packrat. In recent years, I've gotten better about it. A few months ago, I found a box full of owner's manuals and the like that dated back to the early 90's. It was full of receipts as well, dating back to 1994. Except for a few receipts/owner's manuals my mom wanted me to set aside, I tossed out all the other stuff in that box.

If I go on a trip somewhere, I save the receipts from wherever I made purchases at. Same goes for ticket stubs. It's pretty neat having an Underground stub that says I paid like £20 to ride on the tube unlimited times in one week. Generally, I hold on to receipts for up to 3 months and after that, I toss 'em.

However, I'm bad, REALLY bad with magazines. I could furnish a library with all the ones I have. :faint: I have EVERY SINGLE ISSUE of Seventeen dating to January 1999. I have magazines dating to 1995. My mom has the same problem, so I guess I got it from her -- she STILL has magazines from 1984!!!!! :eek:

The only items I collect are videos and TV-DVDs...the rest I toss after a while. I am a confessed anal retentive neat freak and I hate having a lot of unless stuff around...

That's pretty much the same as me. I rarely ever get rid of DVD's, and cd's, and I never get rid of old tapes of stuff I taped off tv. Everything else though always goes.

This Summer, instead of just throwing stuff away, I'm going to be having a garage sale instead. Might as well pass my crap onto someone else, and make a little money out of it!!

I'm a tosser. .


Believe me Janice - you are NOT a tosser, lol, your a nice person

I still have the Life and Time magazines from the assassinations of JFK and Bobby Kennedy so it might payoff someday.

I have the People magazine from the 9/11 attacks. I'm probably going to sell that in the future. Anyway, I am most definitely a packrat. I keep almost everything, from magazines to stuffed animals. Stuffed animals are the worst for me, especially those Beanie Babies. I keep ticket stubs too, like from Yankee games and concerts. Movies too :lol:

I have the People magazine from the 9/11 attacks. I'm probably going to sell that in the future. Anyway, I am most definitely a packrat. I keep almost everything, from magazines to stuffed animals. Stuffed animals are the worst for me, especially those Beanie Babies. I keep ticket stubs too, like from Yankee games and concerts. Movies too :lol:


Oh yeah - I forgot - I've got the People mag from that too, along with several newspapers, etc.. Also, the royal weddings of Chuckles and Andrew and then of course, the death, funeral, etc. of Diana.

I guess I'm the worst with magazines and clothes (I JUST threw out an outfit I got when I was 14 - could still wear it too, but it finally fell WAY out of date - not even good for retro now).

I'm getting better at tossing other stuff, but for some reason, I hold onto the magazines. I hope my home insurance company doesn't get wind of this or our fire coverage is going to double!! HA! :lol: :crazy:

I'm a tosser. If it doesn't have a purpose and it ain't being used - get rid of it! (Hmmmm. That could apply to some of the women I know! :D )

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I'm a major tosser! Goodwill every 6 months ;)

I am a total TOSSER. I HATE clutter lying around. If I'm sick of looking at something, I throw it away. When I was little kid I used to clean my room by getting rid of toys I didn't like or was sick of looking at. I don't put much emotional value on objects so I have no problem with throwing things out.

I'm very sentimental about things, which I know isn't bad - but there was a time when I was a serious packrat. :lol: I've since learned to be a tosser.

I'm a packrat! I have tons of old magazines from over the years that I saved. It's not because I really like them but if I throw them away I feel like I'm wasting a lot of paper and it's bad for the environment. My dad has tons of old Sports Illustrated mags from as way back as the 1960's and it was worth it to save those all these years becase now he's going to try and sell them on Ebay. I have a feeling he could get some good money for those. My magazines are no more than like 5 or 6 year old.

i'm a packrat just because i'm too lazy to get up and clean my room

Major packrat here.

I'm a packrat! I have tons of old magazines from over the years that I saved. It's not because I really like them but if I throw them away I feel like I'm wasting a lot of paper and it's bad for the environment. My dad has tons of old Sports Illustrated mags from as way back as the 1960's and it was worth it to save those all these years becase now he's going to try and sell them on Ebay. I have a feeling he could get some good money for those. My magazines are no more than like 5 or 6 year old.



Ahh, studying to be a dentist and supply your office eh? :lol:

I thought I kept just special story mags for more than a couple of years, but I just remembered that I have a box of Readers' Digests that date back to the late 60s and early 70s. Its fun the odd time to pull one out and look at what the major medical breakthroughs were....."I Am Jane's Uterus" or "I Am Joe's Prostate" come to mind :lol:

I throw all paper into the blue box for recycling, so I can't say I'm concerned about hurting the environment, but its more of "what if I need to go back for a reference for a conversation I'm having". It's a little nutty I know.

At least I'm not at the point where I'm going to be a Dr. Phil topic about not wanting to part with things. I do go through every couple of years or so and toss. God help me if I ever move again though - its going to have enough semi-trailers full to look like a Rolling Stones tour! :rolleyes:

I guess I'm a Packrat. I've been saving TV Guides since 1983 and I got boxes of them. :lol:

I have them dating back to 1993. But I've started recycling them because I'm not all that interested in today's TV anyway.

As for everything else, I'm pretty much a packrat. But I'll get in these cleaning moods and I'll throw all sorts of stuff out.

I'm a tosser. If it doesn't have a purpose and it ain't being used - get rid of it! (Hmmmm. That could apply to some of the women I know! :D )

That applies to a guy I know...so I did toss him.

I am definitely a packrat.
I started saving TV guides every week from 1980. But I recently stopped that.

Remember those "Carnation Breakfast Drinks?" (They are still available.) I saved a box of one from either 1974 or 1975 (not sure of the year). See photo below.

I cut out the TV ratings printed in the paper since late 1978. Don't have every week, though.

Also save the weather section from 1980 and on (not every day).

Newspapers, too. Let's see... 1979 Skylab, 1981 Reagan assassination attempt, 1983 Coalinga earthquake, 1989 San Francisco 6.9 earthquake, 1994 Northridge 6.7 quake, etc. (Too many to list.)

Some supermarket receipts from the mid or late '80s (don't know the year for sure- they are stored away).

A local radio station (93 KHJ) "Top 30" music lists from 1972-1980, the year they stopped printing them.

I even have a bicycle tire I saved from about 1978- heck, I even have my *bicycle* from around 1974! A Schwinn Stingray.

A couple of phone books- 1967 and 1979.

A Sears catalog from 1975.

Etc., etc.

One of my brother's former bedroom now holds most of my stuff.

Also Enquirers, Stars and Globe (used to be called "Midnight") magazines from the mid-'70s to the late '90s. The oldest I have is an Enquirer from Aug., 1975.

And, many many car magazines and Popular Science and Popular Mechanix, dating back to the 1940s.

I'm definitely a packrat.

I even have a bicycle tire I saved from about 1978- heck, I even have my *bicycle* from around 1974! A Schwinn Stingray.

Here is my bike, posed in my backyard. A single-speed.

It was actually built from different parts. Someone gave me a Schwinn frame, and I added the other parts... seat, rims & tires, seat struts, rear fender. It's a girls' frame because, back then, it was thought that the girls' frame was stronger than the boys' frame.

You can tell it's from the '70s by several things:
- The long "banana" seat.
- The "dirt-bike"-type handlebars.
- The rear seat strut
- The long rear fender, secured with the top half of a "sissy bar" cut to length.

We "dirt-bike" guys also removed the chain guard- it was considered "undesirable" (I have no idea why.) These dirt bikes were quite heavy- I think mine weighed 36 lbs. I started riding it around 1974.

Funny looking back... my brother used to "jump" down 6 or 7 foot hills on his bike without a helmet. These days, I see kids riding with helmets even when on a flat sidewalk in front of their house!

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I'm a packrat. I keep everything in case I will need it. I also don't like to spend time going through things to throw things away.

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I'm such a packrat that it's not even funny... Well, I don't pack EVERYTHING I own. I usually keep a lot of papers I obsessively print out and love to read stuff from forums and emails. Weird habit of mine....

I seem to later throw away some of the stuff thinking to myself, "Why did I ever keep this?" I never realize it then until later... sheesh! :eek:

I'm not a packrat.

I'm a collector.

;)Yea thats the ticket mate!

We are colelctors and love having older books and all!!


I guess I am a packrat..... Ya dunno what ya might be throwing away!

Semi packrat. I have an overabundance of yarn, sewing/knitting/crochet supplies, knick-knacks, dolls, and pillows.