What junk/stuff do you find you can't throw out?

Old R/T and C/D mags from the 80s.

 

My magazines, I just can't let them go.

 

i have moved soooo many times... the latest time just 3 weeks ago, and i STILL have several boxes of... CRAP that i haven't sorted through since like 5 moves ago.

so yeah, i never seem to be able to throw anything out

 

T Shirts! With the exception of plain white ones, they all have a story.

Jeans, too, to a lesser extent. I had one pair of jeans that I wore until they totally disintigrated.

 

Old ticket stubs and stuff. Each concert or game or event has some special meaning to me. Post cards, I have a box full of them.

 

My girlfriend.




j/k.... really.

 

I can throw away/ eBay anything except Cavallino Magazines.

 

Fortunes

...from Fortune Cookies, that is.

Cables, Jacks, Plugs, Wires. Just can't do it. Too many "what if's."

I was pondering chucking some torn and frayed blue jeans last week. Didn't happen. They don't even fit. "What if."

I got brave and no longer have 1/20 the T-Shirts I had a year ago. But the 2-sizes-too-small Johnny Rotten shirt stays, as does the practice Track Team T-Shirt from my alma mater. It's just over 30 years old. Good, thick stock, sleeves got chopped long ago, though. There's this one shirt I've got hidden away at my folks place - remember when mesh shirts - (like football players) first started hitting retailer shelves in '71? Still got it.

Also up thereabouts is a Pioneer Supertuner underdash cassette player circa '77 - round dial - FM only. Savin' that for a ride that's just screamin' for it. My old friend's'll freak.

 

Old cell phones and other electronics. Most of them don't work but I still have them. I've got a box full of old analog cell phones. I wish I could get service for them. My 3 watt phone would work everywhere.

I guess all that stuff was expensive at the time so I don't want to throw it away.

 

An envelope containing four tickets to Nolan Ryan's 5th no-hitter at the Astrodome in 1981. A great-uncle gave them to me, he had season tickets but chose to watch that particular game at home on TV. He held onto the tickets since they were pseudo souveniers and he gave them to me shortly before he passed. I moved, and didn't find the envelope for 5 years. I thought for certain they had been inadvertently thrown away, but found them in the only box that had remained unpacked!

 

dead bodies. if I do, they'll catch me. so it's better to just take them with me whenever I move.

 

Books, records, CD's, & some magazines

 

I cant throw away a lot of magazines I have, I must have 150+ magazines in my closet.

 

Car memrobilia (sp?), magazines, automotive brochures (never know when I'll need info on that 1995 Ford Mustang). That's about it, tho. Everything else, I pretty much throw away....unless it has some significant sentimental value. I do keep ticket stubs. *nods* I'm such a pack rat.

 

Anything in my house that has not been used in 8 months gets tossed.

 

VHS tapes of mid to late '90s Grands Prix.

Dane

 

I have a box filled with A/C adaptors......

 

Welcome to the club!!!!

 

Boxes.

 

My R&T and EVO magazines.

I also have Legos that I can't part with. To many hours spent with those things when I was little to just throw them out, or even sell them.

I used to keep movie ticket stubs but then months later I would see them and wonder why I still have them. I throw them out now.

Anyone remember the Hardy Boys? I have most of those books. Can't part with those either. They are way below my reading level but I love them.

 

I am obsessed with taking loads to the dumps, so anything not fixable, gets tossed. No boxes of mystery a/c adapters or old paint cans or excess scheisse for me.

 

old girlfriend stuff