Useless things?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:10 am

Do you save or collect any useless things? Things you really don't use, and probably wouldn't even notice if they were gone?

Old love letters? Totally outdated computer parts? Business cards from people you don't remember any longer? Every pair of pantyhose you have torn with your teeth?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:16 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Do you save or collect any useless things? Things you really don't use, and probably wouldn't even notice if they were gone?

Old love letters? Totally outdated computer parts? Business cards from people you don't remember any longer? Every pair of pantyhose you have torn with your teeth?

Emails, i have nearly every single email i have ever recieved, it is crazy

I also have loads of old games, none of which i play (or intend to) but still i hoard them

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:28 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
Emails, i have nearly every single email i have ever recieved, it is crazy
<snip>

OMG

- I would need a new harddisk just to contain all emails I've gotten

That is crazy

McBane · Post by **McBane** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:39 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:

Every pair of pantyhose you have torn with your teeth?

And how many of these do you have CE?

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:45 am

I keep all my old games - I can stand some 2nd hand shop **** saying "I'll take them off your hands if you pay me"

And I keep all the pantyhose I tear with *my* teeth

(its not *my* pantyhose

)

I also collect Guinness memoraba..bea... stuff).

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:51 am

I tend to keep old stuff only if it still serves a purpose, but I think that's more in reaction to my wife's packrat mentality than any virtue on my part. She keeps college medical texts--Coronary Artery Medicine and Surgery: Concepts and Controversies, is right now lying on top a box of hardware supplies in the garage. After much pleading, she finally agreed to move a few goods to Goodwill, but she won't give up books like that.

She still mulls over the loss of her Kaypro 2 which was accidentally left behind when we did a move six years ago. And she still has the disks for it. Never know when you're going to find a replacement Kaypro 2, after all.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 10:16 am

I am a pack rat; messy but not dirty. I save old love letters, the packaging from Star Wars figures, drawings I made in kindergarden, and lots of other assorted junk. My wife hates all of my boxes that fill the attic and the basement.

Most of the stuff I have is in and of itself, utterly worthless, but that's not its value to me. I save things because each item has a memory that goes with it. I have a "Monorail Driver's License" from the first time my wife and I went to Disney World, bracelets from youth conferences that are fifteen years old, my grandfather's Bluejackets Manual from his days in the US Navy and just about every birthday card anyone has ever sent me.

I know a lot of it is junky and worthless to anyone but me, but since I don't take a lot of pictures and don't keep a diary, it's my way of holding on to memories.

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 10:26 am

I have an old hand-crank telephone from the last community in the US that still operated on the crank system (in Maine). It belonged to my great-Aunt. Its pretty useless. I have a cut nail (square) made by my great great grandfather when he worked in a nail factory in 1863. I could still use it, but I wouldn't.

Yes, I still have a few old games that probably wouldn't work on today's computers, some old newspapers, and college textbooks that I only crack open whenever C. Elegans asks me hard questions.

I am a minor pack-rat. I've heard of people who are pathological pack-rats, that never throw anything out.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 10:26 am

Ohh - I totally forgot to say what I "collect".....

Rejections on job-applications is what I keep collecting

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 1:05 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave:
bracelets from youth conferences that are fifteen years old

Heehee, I always managed to eat mine before the youth conferance/youth camp ended.

I rarely through out the packaging to stuff. I've got packaging to toys I got when I was in 1st grade.

I also don't like getting rid of books. Never know when I might want to reread one, even if it is a text book. I also keep empty bottles of Dr. Pepper until I'm forced to throw'em out. I've also got all the system CDs that came with my first computer that I got rid of about 3 years ago. Never know when a System Restore CD for a 6-year-old Packard Bell computer might come in handy.

I also keep my old clothes. I could still wear most of these clothes but there 5-10 years old and worn out. I also keep the instructions for stuff I don't even have anymore.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 2:51 pm

Well, We Keep Gruntboy around SYM... He's kind've useless....

Alex Slavich · Post by **Alex Slavich** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 3:22 pm

I have some old 1 meg ram chips...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 3:48 pm

@Youghford- well with admission like that you belong in SYM

Welcome btw

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:08 pm

1 Meg ram... thats so old...

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 6:09 pm

Originally posted by Aegis:
1 Meg ram... thats so old...

I'll top the 1 MB chips with a Colecovision and raise with an Apple IIc.

Mr Snow · Post by **Mr Snow** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 6:10 pm

I used to keep all sorts of crap, Still do with books (Can't seen to throw books out - even highschool text books) even totally useless items like bank statement from 8 years ago

.

Crap I used to keep is cars and parts, worst case was 13 cars on our property, of which only 2 were registed and only 4 ran. But have since gotten rid of them all and most of the misc. car parts

Numerous trips to the dump later

Also very rewarding watching three of your cars being taken away on the back of a truck (an these were large cars too - bigger than merc 5 series - two cars on the bottom and one resting on top, all only held by two slings, ah... wreakers at their best

)
Furniture is another bad case of useless items for me.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 6:20 pm

Originally posted by Mr Snow:
Crap I used to keep is cars and parts, worst case was 13 cars on our property, of which only 2 were registed and only 4 ran.

I had an uncle like that, though the vehicles that littered his yard were all racecars.

Mr Snow · Post by **Mr Snow** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 6:35 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
I had an uncle like that, though the vehicles that littered his yard were all racecars.

No, I wasn't that good, most were just old cars that had been driven to the ground

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 6:41 pm

Originally posted by Mr Snow:

No, I wasn't that good, most were just old cars that had been driven to the ground

IIRC, he hadn't driven any of these racecars in at least 2 decades.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 7:13 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave:
I'll top the 1 MB chips with a Colecovision and raise with an Apple IIc.

I see your Colecovision, and Apple IIc, and raise is with a Commadore 64...