I am somewhat of a hoarder
I don't even like pronouncing that word
hoarder [ __ ] door and while it may not
be to the extent of the people on the
show hoarders it still poses a problem
for my storage space it may have stemmed
from my upbringing of making sure not to
waste anything
why because you saved money that way
mm-hmm yeah genius my parents always
told me to finish my food if there was
one or two pieces left of that longanisa
someone better be finishing that either
now or tomorrow when you pack it for
lunch when you go to school I don't care
if the kids make fun of you just because
you're not eating some lame-ass
Lunchables and that was the mindset I
grew up with if you have something you
don't need at the moment you'll probably
need it later better to have it and not
need it than to need it and not have it
I used to have a bunch of plushies that
I've accumulated throughout my childhood
I had them all on display on my
headboard shelf but once I hit
university I thought maybe it's time to
retire these except this one I like this
one but I also thought these hold a
special place in my heart maybe I'll
save them until I get married and have
kids and then I'll just give it to them
therefore I'll save money by not having
to buy new toys and assume that my
unpredictable kids want my old ones
maybe one or two years passed and I find
out my parents donated them without my
acknowledgment I was a little sad but
then I remembered that a lot of them
were gifts from exes so I got over it
eventually okay hold on question for you
guys do you keep gifts from exes I know
a lot of people like to purge everything
they owned that reminded them of a
preceding partner but I find myself
keeping a lot of the things I got more
so if they were functional but even if
they were aesthetic like a ring or a
bracelet I kept them too I didn't keep
them to honor the gift er but simply
because I thought it looked nice on me
is is that weird some people find that
weird but here's my opinion if you gave
me something you've relinquished your
ownership of that object and have
transferred it to me it is now my
possession and whether or not that means
something deeper or more sentimental is
up to me alone and no one
there was one time when I got out of a
relationship of which I obtained a
certain accessory I eventually met
another girl whom I was getting to know
and during that time I've already moved
on from my ex like one Honda red @ %
anyway I often wore this tungsten ring
that was given to me by the
aforementioned ex and the girl brought
it up and asked where I got it before I
answered I already predicted the kind of
response I would get so I tried to
explain how it didn't mean anything and
I just simply liked the ring
well she proceeded to deny my claim and
tried to convince me that I still had
underlying feelings for my ex [ __ ] you
don't know me she was very upset and I
understood why she would assume that and
I was willing to stop wearing the ring
if I knew it upset her but she just
wouldn't trust my feelings I didn't know
how else to convince her otherwise
partially bad move on my end I admit but
the ring was technically mine I just
happened to obtain it from an ex if she
preferred I wore something that honored
her than she was welcome to get me
something for me sentiment overrides
aesthetic we weren't exactly dating but
if a new partner got me a new ring even
if they didn't get the right size I'll
still wear it over the old one anyway
back to hoarding I'd say it was much
worse when I was younger I used to find
random crap on the ground that I thought
could be purposed for something else
I may not know that purpose at the
moment but I believe that would later do
you guys remember beyblades I mean
they're still around but when they were
the new fad at every school I used to
find little metal pieces on the floor
because I've looked at the ground a lot
when I walked around as a kid but I
would always try and modify my beyblades
with these pieces granted they may have
made my tops a little more dangerous
than they already were but I had a lot
of fun customizing it with a trash that
I found which I turned into my treasure
but even after the beyblade hype I still
kept all those metal pieces in a box
that's probably still somewhere in my
parents basement the same goes for
cosplay which is odd for me because I
don't even cosplay that often but I'd
find random things where I think hmm
this might be useful for a future
cosplay for example my sister would walk
into my room and be like hey I
velcro do you need velcro and I'd be
like no not at the moment but I'll take
it but the thing is by the time I did
need that velcro years later I've
already misplaced it and I would have to
dig through boxes and bags of other
hoarded objects and if I needed that
velcro in a rush I'd probably just buy
new velcro and then I'm just left with
that lone wolf-- velcro that's somewhere
in the house probably met up with the
beyblade pieces and became friends
because they had a common abandoner I've
got t-shirts and posters aplenty
I've got headphones and coupons galore
you want charging cables that don't work
anymore I've got 20 but who cares no big
deal I want more but I probably
shouldn't because my condo has limited
space the way I got around this was
simple clean up every now and then oh my
goodness Dom you're a freaking genius
we're in 2017 while you in 3017 I tend
to keep a lot of the original boxing or
packaging of products I bought thinking
I might sell them on Craigslist someday
but really I know it'd be too lazy to do
that so I should just recycle them if
there are clothes at the end of the
closet or at the bottom of the pile in
my drawers that I haven't worn in a year
then it was probably time to retire them
donate them something just give them up
I know it sounds easy on paper but
personally if I don't use an item on a
regular basis then it's probably better
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