I've got a '69 quarter that I've had since '79.

DUISparky said…

I've got a '69 quarter that I've had since '79.

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Someone wouldn't throw away a quarter, so that doesn't count DUISparky :) 

Hmmmm ya never know. This one's in pretty bad shape and unspendable.

I am a pack rat.   A pack rat with anal organizational tendencies.    I have a lot of stuff and inventories.    I have a ton ton ton of craft supplies and fabrics - but, I've completely lost interest in doing anything with it.    I keep hoping.  I also have a dream kitchen and tons of great cooking stuff, but lost interest in cooking too.  and so on....

Maybe if I organized by craft room I'd get inspired.

Oh yeah! I also still have keys to the following vehicles that I no longer own:

• 1969 Mercury Cougar
• 1969 Chevy van
• 1981 Kawasaki 440 LTD (x2)
• 1985 Subaru Brat
• 1995 Toyota SR5
• 2001 Toyota Tundra

When I was in fifth grade, we had an assembly hosted by this man named Steve Max.  He specialized in balancing things...on his face.  I was the lucky person chosen to sit on the lawn chair that was balanced on his face.  It was incredibly terrifying, but I got a free t-shirt out of it.  It has a picture of a child sitting on a chair, balanced on Steve Max's face and says, "I was balanced on the face of Steve Max!"  It's my favorite t-shirt, even though now it's about five sizes too small.  I'd never throw it away.  Ever.

That's a great memory and worth saving!  Holy cow, I don't think I'd have the gut to do it :)

Yes, I have a purse that I bought from Kmart... I wanted an inexpensive purse for every day use.

 It  was handy and convenient, it had several zippers in the front, back, and the inside.

It had  room for everything I wanted to carry and I could find my  makeup, phone, wallet, checkbook, and pens with my eyes closed in just a few seconds!   oh how I loooved this purse!

I refused to carry any other.  It was black with a long shoulder strap and made of that false looking leather.   After two years it began to peel like something with a skin disease!  

Though I embarrassed friends and family  with this peeling monstrosity I refused to stop carring it.. throwing it away was not and option! Not at least until I could find another one that could match its caliber!

 I looked every where for a purse like this one, and thought it was Crazy! that I could not find another!  Not even at the place I originally purchased it from!

  I  finally stopped carrying it when the strap broke from it in the grocery store parking lot!  I stood staring at it in my hands in anguish!  when I got home, I tried to sew the strap back on... thus making the purse uglier then ever!

  I finally and reluctantly came to my senses and ....no not throw it away.. I put it in the attic...  I haven't found one like it since.

Vetsy said…

Yes, I have a purse that I bought from Kmart... I wanted an inexpensive purse for every day use.

 It  was handy and convenient, it had several zippers in the front, back, and the inside.

It had  room for everything I wanted to carry and I could find my  makeup, phone, wallet, checkbook, and pens with my eyes closed in just a few seconds!   oh how I loooved this purse!

I refused to carry any other.  It was black with a long shoulder strap and made of that false looking leather.   After two years it began to peel like something with a skin disease!  

Though I embarrassed friends and family  with this peeling monstrosity I refused to stop carring it.. throwing it away was not and option! Not at least until I could find another one that could match its caliber!

 I looked every where for a purse like this one, and thought it was Crazy! that I could not find another!  Not even at the place I originally purchased it from!

  I  finally stopped carrying it when the strap broke from it in the grocery store parking lot!  I stood staring at it in my hands in anguish!  when I got home, I tried to sew the strap back on... thus making the purse uglier then ever!

  I finally and reluctantly came to my senses and ....no not throw it away.. I put it in the attic...  I haven't found one like it since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm laughing over here. I actually did sew a strap back on one pocketbook and used it for at least another year. I finally did deposit it in file 13, but I think I got my money's worth!

These are such sweet stories.  Remember: One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I am contemplating donating all the Gap jeans and cute little Limited and Limited Too shirts that I wore while undergoing chemo.  I lost so much weight that I got bone thin, basically emaciated, and for 3 years I had a new wardrobe.  Once I quit chemo I regained about 8-10 of the 20+ lbs. I lost.  It was enough weight to make me "outgrow" the cancer wardrobe as I called it.  I still have all the jeans and sweaters/shirts and they only serve to remember me of 3 years that I suffered at the hands of cancer.  I used to think I would wear the clothes again but I know I can't allow myself to get that thin and still survive.  I am 5'3" and weigh about 94 lbs. soak and wet.  While undergoing chemo I went down to about 78 lbs. --not good but couldn't be helped. 

My family and I have discussed going to the flea market in the next few weeks to make some money off the clothes.  If I don't do that they will be donated to Goodwill and someone is going to make money off some namebrand clothes!   

That sounds like my husband who has cell phone accessories to all his past cell phones, even though he doesn't have 1/2 those phones anymore!

Definitely part with those :)  It will probably feel good to get rid of that memory!

I have several old cell phones in a box in the basement that were given to me about 9 years ago. I have no idea why I still have them since I abhor cell phones. I think I'll toss 'em when I get home. Thanks for the reminder Suzi!

DUISparky said…

I have several old cell phones in a box in the basement that were given to me about 9 years ago. I have no idea why I still have them since I abhor cell phones. I think I'll toss 'em when I get home. Thanks for the reminder Suzi!

 

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If you haven't tossed those old cell phones, you may want to donate them to a non-profit organization. I know our local domestic violence office accepts old cell phones and are very glad to get them.

They also recycly old cell phones for those in armed forces.  My church collects old cell phones to send to missionaries.

I am a recovering packrat.  I saved all the dolls and stuffed animals from when I was young.  I even saved all of my sisters dolls and stuffed animals.  Whenever they would clean their rooms and throw any out I would sneak out to the can in the garage and take them out and put them in my closet.  I graduated from college a few weeks ago and am in the process of finding my own apartment.  I know they cannot come with me and I really do not want to have to explain to my sisters why I have all their old stuff in my room.  Our city cleanup day was last saturday so I bought some big black garbage bags and emptied my closet I probably have not looked at any of them in over 5 years but as I got each one out I felt attached to it fortunatly I had a friend helping me and she kept me focused and despite my protests convinced me I really did not need 23 cabbage patch dolls or 15 carebears or a dozen baby dolls and 5 bags full or other stuffed animals.  I did keep a few sentimental ones but my friend ruthlessly put all the others in the bags and once a bag was full she tied it shut and took it outside.  We borrowed her dad's truck and took the bags to the park where volunteers were collecting unwanted items.  Fortunatly things happened so fast I couldn't change my mind we just backed the pickup truck up to one of the garbage trucks and the volunteers unloaded it.  The truck was empty and the trucks compactor was running before I even got out of the truck to help them unload. 

I also have several pairs of my favorite Guess jeans that I no longer fit in after having a baby.  They are ridiculously smaller than I am now and will probably never fit me again, but I am holding on to them just in case!

I have a closet full of my great grandmother's clothes that I de facto inherited when I moved into her house 23 years ago. They'll still be hanging in the closet when I'm gone. I also have some cast iron pans that she used to cook with in the 30's and 40's. I recently decided that since I'm not going to throw them away I should refinish them and start using them.  They're cleaning up nicely and will be back on the stove soon.  

rustaddsflavor, those well-seasoned cast iron pans are every cooks dream!  You are very fortunate to have them and yes, should definitely use them.  You can think of her every time you cook with them :)

It's no big deal to me since I still use the dishes that were in the cupboards when I moved in. I don't know how old they are but the cupboards were lined with newspaper from WW2 and she never bought dishes. I'm thinking they're depression era since that's when she moved there. I still use her flatware too, probably just as old.

The old pans were pretty rusty but I've gotten a few of them clean enough to use (I hope). They were made by Crescent F'dy, which I can't find any info on. Long gone I guess. 

I also have my grandmother's cast iron skillets, and use them all the time. I have no idea what foundry made them way back when, as all the markings on the bottom are now indecipherable.

Uhmm I no longer have that old 1969 quarter though. I gave it away a couple weeks ago.

Good for you DUISparky, one of us can let something go!  It sure isn't me :) 

My Pepsi shirt mentioned at the top of the discussion board has deteriorated even more since then and the holes are getting bigger.  I'm still wearing it to bed!

I've let a lot of things go over the last 5 months or so...  d;-)

I have a christmas bears from when i was younger and i still to this day love to collect christmas teddybears that the stores comes out with every year

Oh I remember the Pepsi points rewards they had. I had gotten a beach chair with cup holder and a CD case, but I don't have it anymore. :(

I have old stuffed animals since I was a kid.

This is so appropriate for me right now because I have tried to bring myself to donate this item to Good Will for at least 20 years. I have even had it in a bag with other donations but each time I have taken it out at the last minute.

It is a medium sized purse that is red and has black Scottish Terriers on it. I bought it when I had my first Scottie. It isn't fashionable, it doesn't go with anything I own and I know I'll never use it again but I just can't get rid of it.

I know that it's because of the sentimental attachment and I keep telling myself that somebody else could get a lot of use from it. Still it sits in my closet. I'll probably be buried in it.

I just discovered a very large zipped plastic bag with what has to be about 75 to 100 Beanie Babies in it. I really don't even remember where I got them all but they are adorable. I don't need them and no one in the family  wants them. (I have two older sons who couldn't care less about that stuff.) But I can't give them away just yet. I have a ton of the McDonald's Beanie Babies too. I know in my heart that I should give them away but I can't. So I put them back where I found them. Sigh. I am not getting very far in my rid the house of clutter efforts.

Patty, I have a TON of Beanie Babies too!  They are sitting in a large zip bag waiting for me to do something with them.  I looked them up on eBay in hopes of selling them, but they are worthless right now!  Maybe if we hold on to them for 25 years, they will be cool again and valuable :)

I (with hand up) am a pack rat!!! I hold onto way too much stuff. I have memories to certain items....like my husband...can't donate him....lol...J/K. I get attached and it brings back memories..I still have my daughter's first Christmas dress, it's only 23 yrs old., with needless to say a spit up mark on the white lace. But it is beautiful. My sister-in-law made my kids animal P.J.s when they were 1 & 5, still have them. Can't get rid of that either, because she made them just for the kids. My sister was in my wedding party, I have her bridesmaid dress hanging in the closet...Why? It's now over 27 yrs. old.

I did a few years ago purged, only kept the special drawings and spelling tests my kids took in school. I plan on putting a box together for whenever they move out, get married of little treasures from their childhood. Things that mattered, and hope they would be like "WOW" Mom kept this for me...(they will probably have the opposite opinion). Who knows.

Socks aren't an issue anymore, I just tell my husband if one sock is still good hold onto it, eventually it will make a matching set. Another one will end up in the garbage. (I use to darn them..what was I thinking??? ). Undies no issues there either.

I am surprised, my kids hold onto very few things. When they were little a made afghans for each of them, small for there size. They have kept them. I guess I do know what feels special to them. It warms my heart to know they have.

I am trying to get better, organized. One day at a time.