Do you have things you never use?

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Now, I love pretty hair accessories. Barrettes, combs, clips, many things. However, I don't wear them.

Same with dolls. I love dolls, but I never play with them.

Both the dolls and the hair accessories are just things I enjoy collecting. However, I never use/play with them. I like to have them more on display.

Does anyone else have such things?

I have a lot of things I never use. I'm right on the border of being a pack rat and a hoarder. I forced myself in January to throw away some broken appliances that had been sitting in my cupboards for over a year.

Everyone does.
I mostly have books I don't read anymore.

Yep, and I don't bother keeping track at this point...

Yeah. I own an iPod Nano that I never use. I originally bought it to watch movies, but I decided I liked collecting DVDs better. Speaking of DVDs, I rarely ever sit down and watch them, contrary to the impression I give on here. For example, I've only watched my favorite movie, Alice in Wonderland, twice since I bought it over a month ago.

I have one thing I never use: a nice Meade telescope. Large aperture, tripod, computer, set of lenses, etc... I really need to take it out one of these nights.

Some "normal" girly clothes my mom said I should wear about 2 years ago, but that I have never done so besides trying them on because they were uncomfortable.

I also have some books I read once or twice, but haven't touched again, and music CD's that I bought, listened to, and passed on to my iPod, and afterwards stored them in a CD box.

Dolls are cool. I have Rainbow Bright ones. I like costume jewelry, too. I have stuff that I am fixing to sell in a garage sale. I just lost a drawer and shelves to a water heater, so, I need to find new homes for the stuff that was inside, fast.

I don't like a lot of clutter.

Its a common Aspergian behavior to compulsively collect - not hoard - hoarding is a disorder all its own, that involves keeping EVERYTHING, until your space is stacked floor-to-ceiling with junk and garbage.

Collecting is an obsession with a particular type of item, and like obsessive special interests, its not unusual to have several collectible obsessions. I have quite a few: Batman, Superman, Vampirella, Betty Boop, The Beatles, Antique Radios and radio promotional memorabilia, tattoo flash art and recorded music.

I don't really count books, since so many people collect books there's nothing especially unusual about that. I do include music, because I collect that waay beyond the extent that 'normal' people do.

If this was in response to my post, I gotta say I agree. I'm not so much a collector as I am fighting hoarding tendencies. Though, I do go through phases where I collect specific things. I've got quite a large porcelain doll collection.

You don't have an issue #1 of the first run of Vampirella comics do you Willard? I ask because i'd be interested in purchasing if you're willing to part with it
I have the complete set of Fangoria horror movie magazines since 1979 that just sit in their boxes all neat and organized. My wife hates it.

I didn't think of that. I did used to think I was hoarding. My parents accuse me of that very much, yet I do throw things away, and don't buy things have nothing to do with my collections. One example is that I don't buy clothes much. The reason my closet is full is because my mom buys them in the hopes that I will forget how uncomfortable they are and wear them. I also don't buy dvds or books I have no interest in. The ones I buy are because they are part of my collections. Snow White because it is part of my Walt Disney Platinum collection, En Nombre del Amor because if it part of my telenovela collection, etc, Queen of this Realm(although I despise Elizabeth I of England), because it is part of my Jean Plaidy collection, like that.

I didn't think of that. I did used to think I was hoarding. My parents accuse me of that very much, yet I do throw things away, and don't buy things have nothing to do with my collections. One example is that I don't buy clothes much. The reason my closet is full is because my mom buys them in the hopes that I will forget how uncomfortable they are and wear them. I also don't buy dvds or books I have no interest in. The ones I buy are because they are part of my collections. Snow White because it is part of my Walt Disney Platinum collection, En Nombre del Amor because if it part of my telenovela collection, etc, Queen of this Realm(although I despise Elizabeth I of England), because it is part of my Jean Plaidy collection, like that.

My tailbone.

Yes, and it really bothers me. I'm working on getting it to a level where I feel comfortable.

Already, I've sold or given away around 80-90% of what I owned a year ago (by volume). Still got a ton. Perhaps, tons!

I'm jealous. I try to do this about once a year and never get very far. I just can't bring myself to part with my stuff. I even save old cards people give me because I worry they'll ask about them and want proof I received them. :-\