Who's the worst. "Hoarders" or those who chuck stuff away regardlessly?

[Accy cyclist]

I went round to my old marital home tonight. I wanted to collect my shoe polish and brushes,to be told by Mrs Accy that she'd thrown them away. The shoot hit the fan! She's thrown them away,saying i should've taken them with me when i moved out,if i wanted to keep them. We're talking about brushes i've had for decades that'd cost a fair amount of money to replace. Once again she said i'm a hoarder. She's always said that,in fact my mum who also threw stuff out regardlessly said the same. I remember her when i moved out,(when i got married),throwing away loads of my old football programmes. I don't think it's right to throw other peoples stuff away. I don't think i'm a hoarder. I just like to hold onto stuff that has sentimental value,or could be useful to me one day. I'm not like those you see in these tv programs who have rooms piled high with saved stuff. So who's the worst. Hoarders or those who chuck stuff away regardlessly?

 

[tyred]

I think you need to aim to be somewhere in the middle.

 

[I like Skol]

I can quite happily attack a cupboard/room from time to time and wonder 'Why do we keep all this shoot?' Although a large proportion of it can be mine

Some days the wheelie bin just isn't big enough, but I do like to keep stuff that still has life in it or may yield parts to repair something else.......

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm just glad i rescued my birth certificate and other such documents. I think they'd have been binned too if i'd have left them there! She also chucked out some bloody good Audi car mats,i now could've made use of.

From experience,i'd say men are the so called hoarders and it's the women who do the chucking out.

 

[Drago]

I'm pretty good for binning stuff, but Mrs D is a hoarder. It's a sort of uneasy "odd couple" situation.

 

[matiz]

I don't like stuff cluttering up the house if I watch one of them antique valuation shows I'm always saying what a load of old tat I would chuck it straight in the skip it usually turns out to be worth a few hundred quid.

 

[Flyboy]

I keep stuff for ages, then about twice a year get rid, then about a week later I find I could do with that piece of wood . As long as your happy do what ever .

 

[taximan]

I have never considered myself a hoarder but the other day, it took me a full hour to extricate one of my bike from the garage, so reckon I must be.

 

[Dirk]

I generally work on the theory that, if I havent used something for 6 months, I don't need it and it gets serious consideration of being 'decluttered'.
Only 'consideration', mind.

 

[snorri]

I think you need to aim to be somewhere in the middle.

People who sit on the fence are worse by far than hoarders and people who chuck stuff out.

 

[craigwend]

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I'm certainly not a hoarder. Doesn't everyone have a box of screws and bits?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have boxes and boxes of football programs here. So many that they take up far too much space. I don''t read them,even look at them. They've been piled together for years. Only a few are worth anything,so why do i feel the need to keep them?

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm certainly not a hoarder. Doesn't everyone have a box of screws and bits?

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I used to have, until I sorted them out into individual jars...

 

[MontyVeda]

...oh, and i've got a cupboard full of VHS cassettes, six shoes boxes full of audio cassettes, and one that would drive my mother round the bend, another cupboard full of empty cardboard boxes.