[Closed] Hoarding things...who is guilty? why do we do it!?

Guilty 😥

Guilty as charged.

I'm a terrible hoarder of any old crap 'just in case' I might need it in 25 years time. I get this from my dad. Mind you, he's better stocked than B&Q for all those wee hard to find things, so there's method in the madness.

i do it.
i hate throwing anything out, i detest wasting anything coz it ****s the planet, and i try to make things last as long as possible.
in my case, it comes from the part of my life in my 20s, when i couldnt find work, and therefore had no money.
ive just got into the habit of not wasting anything where possible.

A friend said "If you haven't used anything for 6 months it is not yours"

I'd smack him in the face for being stupid.

Hoarders law say: The moment you get rid of an item, you will need it within 2 weeks.

Try freecycle.
You haven't a liquidizer/blender have you? Really fancy one...

This is the part where I have just come back in and want to scream.

Ringing the charity shops at lunchtime 2morro and hope/beg they want a table and chairs lol

I do have a veggie juicer somewhere...but I might need it...slaps face.

A whole box of kettle cables??! aghh!

If you've furniture & it's not completely rubbish, then charity shops or the likes of Mary Steven will happily take it off you.

Simple it's because it might be useful.

A friend said "If you haven't used anything for 6 months it is not yours"

I'd guess that he's not someone the makes stuff or mends stuff?

kettle cables might be useful to any musician friends you may have?

z1ppy
Hoarders law say: The moment you get rid of an item, you will need it within 2 weeks.

Happened to me many times

Kettle cable.. I assume you mean PC cables... eBay and 'some' make money off the postage? (if that sitll possible)
Actually try a car boot, these 'apparently' sell any type of tat...

I don't have space to hoard anything so don't buy anything I don't need and if something new comes in, something old has to go. Works for me and means you you don't have to live with a load of clutter clogging up cupboards and drawers.
I likes a good chuck out.

guilty as too.

I have cleared a load of bike and camping gear in the past month as I had duplicates and triplicates of things. Plus lent out a load of baby gear to friends.

Really need a good blitz of everything and get the house in some sort of order, stuff for stuffs sake it crazy. Hoping we can sell some stuff if not the charity shops will be getting car loads of stuff if not.

I aim to get the house in order and break the hoarding instinct over winter fingers crossed 😀

Just moved house and was actually staggered at the amount of 'junk' I had squirreled away all over the old place. Have taken the opportunity to have a really good purge but I have still got a garage, shed and attic full...

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Mike your only a beginner on the clearout, last year I sold over £3000 of parts like that at mates rates!!
I still have loads of stuff & 9 bikes 😳

Guilty. Amongst my other squirreling sins, I've enough cabling to connect anything to anything. If you need a mains charger for a Psion 5, need to hook up your tumble drier to the Internet, or plug a Blu-ray player into a 1977 Ford Fiesta, I'm your man.

no, i am the complete opposite.
cant do with clutter, old or new.

House is full of crap, garage is the same... I keep thinking I should hire a skip, throw most of it out and start again! Especially if I decide to sell up and move at some point!

I had the idea of selling things I didn't need but don't have much time free for a year but need space now.

I'm going to donate my stuff to charity. I don't normallly pay out over £20 per a charity, so donating a table and chairs I could sell is £50 for charity and makes me a happier person plus more space!

The bikes+1 all stay though!

Yeah - i even hoard empty boxes. You know, just in case I sell any of the other stuff I can' t bring myself to get rid of 😕

Just took down a set of light fittings which were crap and falling off the wall ten years ago when we bought the house. Have they gone in the bin or a box in the garage? Yep.

Guilty. Garage is full to overflowing. My pile of kettle flexes, audio cables and chargers & PSU's for unidentified items grew to the extent that it had to be accommodated in one of those massive removal flip top boxes. In a moment of madness I got rid of the lot (most on feecycle, the rest went to the tip) only to end up 5 DAYS LATER I'm in Maplin buying an emergency kettle cable. Never again!!

My nan was literally a female Mr Trebus, kept everything. Dad has been clearing the house this week and has emptied 7 fridges/freezers, all completely rammed with horrendously old food. House was packed with newspapers/trinkets/vouchers/tinned food all sorts. Completely crazy as none of it needed. I'm terrible for keeping crap 'just in case' but I do have more brutal periods where I clear everything out and have never regretted it.

I'd been getting a little cluttered out until a couple of years ago when my parents died within 2 years of each other and I had to use 7 skips to empty their three bedroomed single garage house.

I vowed I'd not let my kids have to do the same as I had to do and I have started clearing all my clutter out!

I'd been getting a little cluttered out until a couple of years ago when my parents died within 2 years of each other and I had to use 7 skips to empty their three bedroomed single garage house.

😯

I'm not as bad as the mrs but I do hoard things. I won't throw anything away until if it's got useful elements ie stripping nuts and bolts etc. The mrs has a collection of boxes, 'good quality' bags [superdry type things] and general tat without going inti shoes and hangbags which have past their use by dates!