Attachment to inanimate objects

[LVSteve]

I am posting this because my wife and I are trying to thin down our "stuff". Right now if we decided to move, a moving company would be rubbing their hands with glee, provided they had a pot handy.

Attachment to inanimate objects. Ridiculous, isn't it? Well, maybe not if that object has a connection to a person and a time in your life that you remember fondly.

I've just loaded my car with a bunch of stuff we have decided we should let go to the local charity store. Yes, we did talk about these things, it wasn't a case of my wife standing with hands on hips saying, "This **** has to go". But as I placed certain things in the car, I found myself tearing up a little. There was a big doll that my first wife used to put out at Christmas, a pair of ceramic parrots that I've had for years that wife#2 wanted to paint, but she never seems to have the time.

Most ridiculous is a HP V40 combined printer/fax. It's as old as the hills, slow, and I'm not certain you can get drivers to run it on a newer computer. I think my dad bought it for me in about 2000, so maybe that's the connection.

Anyone else have issues getting rid of "stuff".

 

[Rustyt1953]

I am attached to precious little as the Pearly Gates Placement Center lacks a U-Haul drop-off.

 

[rockquarry]

No longer hard to get rid of stuff. As I age, more things have no real or sentimental value anymore. And I come from a family of accumulators.

Years ago, right after he leased a storage unit, a friend told me he had just paid rent that was several times the value of the contents he placed in storage. That sums it up for many of us - a perverse attachment to what is often little more than junk.

 

[BigBoy99]

Attachment to inanimate objects. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Is that called "Collecting S&W Handguns"?

 

[rockquarry]

Is that called "Collecting S&W Handguns"?

I didn't know we were talking about guns here. There are always exceptions to the rules.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

My wife is like that. I have around 5 items of which I will never let go, a sterling rosary I got in 4th grade, a 10kt ID bracelet belonging to my father and my wedding ring, my grandfather's rosary and a picture of my grandfather all of which I can carry with two hands. The rest of it-meh let it go. My memories are in my head-the items are just triggers. If I had to, I'd let even these five things go

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

My church has a coat drive at Christmas, they go to a town in Maine. Sent some of my old Army uniforms, windbreakers, black top coat with liner, I outgrew them-the right way, pumping iron. Went through my closet, anything that was too tight in the chest-you're getting a new home, someone else can get use out of you. Dropped TV about 28 years ago, my TV and VCR went to a shut in.
Bought a beautiful near mint 1974 Raleigh Sports 3-speed at a garage sale a few years ago, only paid $30. Got it home, looked at it....it was the 23 inch frame, which is too big for me. Gave it to a friend who is the minister of a church, he gave it to a fellow who needed a bike to get to work.

 

[ladder13]

He with the most toys dies like all the rest.

 

[madmikeb]

My wife and I have been getting ready to move from Maine to Arizona. We've been in our present house for just shy of 32 years. The last 6 months have been non-stop runs to the dump and Goodwill. We keep asking the question "do we really want to pay to haul this across the country?"
Now that the move is on the horizon we will be thinning things out even more .

 

[zeke]

Have more than a couple items that were my grandparents, and remind me of precious few good childhood memories. They have little to no monetary value, but the memory's they bring back are priceless. It would be easier to try and steal cash money from me.

 

[UncleEd]

Used to work with a feller who said
"if you can't move with all your stuff
in a taxicab, you've got too much."

When his girlfriend started talking
about settling down, he called a taxi.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[mckenney99]

My last move was 10 years ago, post divorce. I got 3 days notice from my realtor that my house, of 20 years, was selling and the new buyers wanted occupancy on signing day. A whole bunch of stuff was pitched and given away in a real hurry, not much time for mulling over or remembrances. I still had to rent 3 of the largest storage units to hold all my "stuff" until I could take occupancy of my new home. A friend took all my guns and stored them in his reloading room. The size of my new home has limited the amount of "stuff" I can accumulate, but someone will still have a real job when I pass.

 

[BKLooney]

Yeah, I would guess I'm the hoarder of the bunch here...it can be tough getting rid of stuff...we (spelled me) have way too much stuff (spelled junk)...

 

[Ματθιας]

I'm a collector of all kinds of stuff. Most of it, small stuff like patches, insignia, books, manuals, ect. Then there's the stuff, tools that I inherited when my dad died...

I'm starting to think that I don't own stuff anymore, it, in fact, owns me!!!

I have an old, 35+ year old, top loading, wired remote, VCR! For some reason, I can't get rid of it.

 

[Bald1]

I tend to save things. But my wife and I are planning a move in approximately 2 yrs. So I’ll need to start getting rid of stuff. I had a sump pump discharge line break a few weeks ago. No real damage but some stuff got wet. Tossed a lot of stuff. Donated a lot of stuff. Maybe it was a blessing. Got me motivated to ditch more stuff. I also informed my son I had 4 big totes of his stuff that needs to go. He didn’t trust me to sort through it. I don’t blame him. My new attitude is, if it can be replaced I can probably let it go. With the internet nothing is hard to find nowadays

 

[MRB1]

I pity the poor soul that has to sort through my junk. Throwing something away is a last resort, and then only if it's broken beyond repair, which I'll never get around to. Simplest solution is when things get too crowded in one storeroom, add another storeroom. Who knows, someone might need a Dodge or Chevy distributer adjusted, and presto - problem solved. Just this morning I uncovered three Dearborn space heaters that I haven't used since the 70s.

 

[Maddog 521]

We moved in 2013. We had 4 garage sales in about 1 1/2 years before the move. We sold $10,000 of our "worthless stuff". Some of that stuff made it in the save and sell pile many times. I do remember and miss a lot of it but we're glad is gone. Good luck in your move

 

[jeffrefrig]

Guilty. I might need this multi-tap 100VA transformer some time.

 

[LoadedRound]

Emotions are complicated.

I think we're all attached to something. Doesn't have to make sense. I won't judge.