Stuff & Things

[Brainwrong]

Do you hoard? Do you form emotional attachments to objects? Has it been or is it debilitating?

I've been accused of this, have fought it internally myself but came to the conclusion that often, what really matters is the memory associated rather that the actual object itself.

If it's in your life but in your way, be ruthless. You want to remember it or the memory associated? Take a photo. Then chuck that shit out.

This is fresh in my mind as I just had to get rid of a couch. One that I have/had a very strong emotional attachment to; my daughter was born on it.

So, I took some photos and approached the issue in the only way a man should; with a hammer.

I carefully removed large sections of the fabric so as to facilitate the possible upholstery of a new, smaller chair. Then, I smashed fuck out of it.


Possibly a new branch of the combination of couches & therapy?

Thoughts?

 

[vasco de gama]

Do you hoard? Do you form emotional attachments to objects? Has it been or is it debilitating?

I've been accused of this, have fought it internally myself but came to the conclusion that often, what really matters is the memory associated rather that the actual object itself.

If it's in your life but in your way, be ruthless. You want to remember it or the memory associated? Take a photo. Then chuck that shit out.

This is fresh in my mind as I just had to get rid of a couch. One that I have/had a very strong emotional attachment to; my daughter was born on it.

So, I took some photos and approached the issue in the only way a man should; with a hammer.

I carefully removed large sections of the fabric so as to facilitate the possible upholstery of a new, smaller chair. Then, I smashed fuck out of it.


Possibly a new branch of the combination of couches & therapy?

Thoughts?

Geez, I thought you were maybe meaning stuff like postcards, magazines, entry tickets, your kids first drawings etc but an old and probably smelly couch!!!!

I regret some of the things I have thrown out over the years - posters I designed for clubs, some old school books, photos etc but not an old couch or the even the pants I was wearing the night I first got my Nat King.

 

[Brainwrong]

Geez, I thought you were maybe meaning stuff like postcards, magazines, entry tickets, your kids first drawings etc but an old and probably smelly couch!!!!

I regret some of the things I have thrown out over the years - posters I designed for clubs, some old school books, photos etc but not an old couch or the even the pants I was wearing the night I first got my Nat King.

Ha!

Well, to be honest, the couch was fine. In my opinion.

I also resent spending thousands on feckin' couches

I've got all the stuff you listed. Well, not your stuff. That'd be mental. I have become more ruthless though and do throw out the bulk of crap.

You've moved countries though, man. That must have facilitated a refreshing purge?

 

[vasco de gama]

Ha!

Well, to be honest, the couch was fine. In my opinion.

I also resent spending thousands on feckin' couches

I've got all the stuff you listed. Well, not your stuff. That'd be mental. I have become more ruthless though and do throw out the bulk of crap.

You've moved countries though, man. That must have facilitated a refreshing purge?

By that you mean when Bianca told me to 'get rid of all those tatty old books you never read' and screamed 'why the feck have you got photos of your ex-girlfriend still!'.

I reckon I got shot of about 3/4 of my stuff but did still ship about 1,000 records, 500 CDs, 500 books (most of which are still sat in boxes in our garage). Regret every single piece of vinyl that I left behind but don't care about any of the Cds / DVDs/ Videos or the Delorean* I had to sell.

 

[ZemmamasBarnet]

I've got a wad of receipts and other stuff in my wallet that if I looked through now would find is wholly unnecessary for me to have retained as long as I have.

Just for fun, here's a list of the unnecessary things in my wallet:

A receipt for a cheque I banked in January 2015
A receipt for the trade in of my PS3 for a PS4 from May 2014
A receipt for my MOT in August 2014
A receipt for 9.40 for I've no idea what dating back to September 2013
A receipt for Frankie & Bennys for dinner from January 2015
A receipt for cash I put into the bank in December 2014

I wouldn't say I had an emotional attachment but back when Call of Duty was good and I was good at Call of Duty, I spent many (wasted) hours on my Playstation 3 until it unexpectedly but very abruptly decided to die on, of all days, Friday 13th while I was watching a DVD with the burd (Joey Tribbiani's expression as the motherboard died is burned into my memory).

Incidentally, there's a curious correlation between Call of Duty's increasing shiteness, my waning skills at it and my girlfriend coming into my life but that's another story for another day.

For reasons unknown to me I held onto that worthless piece of plastic and metal for far longer than the couple of hours of YouTube videos I watched of possible fixes revealed that it couldn't be fixed. So like you I did the only thing left to me; I got the tiny phillips head screwdrivers out and took the bloody thing apart.

 

[Doc Shrink]

By that you mean when Bianca told me to 'get rid of all those tatty old books you never read' and screamed 'why the feck have you got photos of your ex-girlfriend still!'.

I suggest that you post the pics of your ex, and then post pics of Bianca.


Then we can vote to see whether Bianca has any cause to worry.


If the result goes her way, you could then refer her to this thread for re-assurance that you have traded up bintwise, and that she is in no danger of you reverting to a relationship with the previous incumbent.
:approve:


Unless of course she thinks that you are on some sort of 'shagging ladder' and that you are already aspiring to something better.
:hmmm

Stick the pics up anyway, and we can worry about the outcome later.

 

[vasco de gama]

I suggest that you post the pics of your ex, and then post pics of Bianca.


Then we can vote to see whether Bianca has any cause to worry.


If the result goes her way, you could then refer her to this thread for re-assurance that you have traded up bintwise, and that she is in no danger of you reverting to a relationship with the previous incumbent.
:approve:


Unless of course she thinks that you are on some sort of 'shagging ladder' and that you are already aspiring to something better.
:hmmm

Stick the pics up anyway, and we can worry about the outcome later.

As soon as I typed the word photo I knew it would grab your attention. You must have sort of App that alerts you to this stuff.

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Here's today's favourite picture of Bianca.

Obviously I destroyed all images of the ex bandit

 

[blue toon hibby]

I used to hoard old football programmes but managed to part with them to a couple of real enthususiasts many years ago - now I'd kinda like to be able to thumb through them again. Still have over 250 vinyl albums boxed up in the loft which I know I'll never play again and 3 guitars taking up house room to which I don't do justice but I'm not really a hoarder any more - unless you count the biscuit tins full of screws, nails, nuts, bolts and washers which "might come in handy some day".

On the subject of receipts - I recently found an old wallet (I never carry one nowadays) and in it were all the hotel receipts from our honeymoon in 1980 - I've still kept them

 

[1 Mcnamara]

When I was younger , I definitely didn't hoard a certain type of magazine, just in case it came in " handy" again one day. :smoke: