are you a packrat?

[toph99]

c'mon, fess up
do you collect antiques? computer parts? antiqued computer parts?

 

[Windogg]

Hey you never know when the 8088 in the ole IBM XT will make a comeback.

Windogg

 

[purplehayes]

No, I'm very good about throwing things away. I'm also very good about needing them later and wondering where they are.

PH

 

[IBhacknU]

yea... bout time for a garage sale!

 

[yakko]

Yep.

 

[prodigy]

Yup

 

[perry]

I hang on to EVERYTHING. My room is an absolute mess because of it. Uhh. Box for a phone that I bought 4 months ago. Matchbooks from restaurants even though I never use the matches. 2MB PCI video card is sitting on my desk collecting dust. Guidebook for my MS Intellimouse Explorer. Never opened it, but I got it.

Things that I don't save I always end up wanting later. All 2 or 3 of them.

 

[kranky]

I'm good about not throwing things away, and I'm good at knowing where they are. I'm not real good about needing them later, much to the dismay of my wife.

 

[compuwiz1]

I would say I have enough old system boards to completely wallpaper a 14x16 room. :Q

 

[dennilfloss]

I have grocery bills dating to the 80s and all the departmental memos about weekly meetings even though I quit teaching full-time half a decade ago. I just moved from a large two-bedroom appartment to another one that is about 2/3 it's size. I will have to throw away stuff and that breaks my heart. Yesterday I gave 8 metal chairs to a hostel for the homeless, which means I only have 7 chairs and a sofa left. I threw away 3 boxes of unsorted seashells that I had bought for teaching purposes 5 years ago. I'm going to throw away my first-year university notes from 1976, totally useless stuff that I held unto for sentimental reasons. Maybe I'll throw away the 2nd-year notes too. I gave away 3 boxes of adult magazines which I hadn't read since the late seventies, some with unread articles. Ack!!!

Hotel California (Eagles)

 

[ltk007]

I can't remember the last time I saw the actual carpeting of my room.

 

[Soybomb]

LOL sure denil, "unread articles".....we believe you

I'm with compuwiz, I could wallpaper my bedroom, and I can guarentee I could do it with mainboards uncapable of supporting anything higher than a 286 I think!

 

[MWink]

I am not a packrat!... I have a perfectly good reason for keeping those 25 computers in the basement. It's....ummm....errr...

Ok maybe I am a packrat.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

yea.... i love collecting comp parts.. and all kinds of other things.
my gf is much worse though

 

[BoberFett]

I'll keep things for a long time. Then every year or two I go stark raving mad and start digging through boxes of junk, throwing away anything that doesn't look immediately useful. We're still in our first house, so that must be helping somewhat.

 

[woodie1]

Who, me? Naw, I'm going to have a garage sale in the 2000s