Are you a sentimental person?

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Focused had a post in another topic where he had four volvo's at his place of residence, which got me to posting this. Are you a sentimental person?

If one ever saw my room, you'd might comment as to how I could live in there. I have over 200 hundred video tapes of things I have recorded since about 1996, I just can't stand to record over anything.

I also have every national geographic magazine in my room from 1993 to 2001.

In my closet I have four large rubbermaid containers that are full of various things from the circuit boards to almost every piece of electronics that ever sat in our house, to school work from 7th grade. I also have every pair of shoes in my closet that I've owned since 1991.

In addition to that. I have three computers, two VCR's, a DVD player, A DISH network reciever, two TV's and computer monitors, plus hundreds of CD's and DVD's that I never really got around to organizing.

The reason I mention this now, is that when I move out this fall to finish up my college education, my dad want's to claim my room as his own, and I have to decide what I have to part with and take to the dump since I can't haul everything with me when I go off to school, and dad won't let me keep my stuff in the basement.

I can't stand the thought of parting with anything!

The dump is a horrible, horrible place.
I've tried to tell my Dad that one day terrorists may break into our house and only spare our lives if we can supply them with a certain tiny litltle piece of plastic thing-a-mabob that goes to some broken outdated useless space occupying treasure. Dad doesn't laugh. Don't touch my stuff Daddy. Errrr SO Mad.

wooaaah your place sounds like heaven scott

Nooo. Throwing things away is awful. Someone cleans my room for me regularly and it's painful to watch him throw my 'crap' out. I might neeed that some day. The worst is when there's memories attached to something but I can't explain. No touch! Get out! Stop that!

my stuff. my stuff. my stuff.

I love my little bits and pieces and everytime Mum tells me to get rid of some of them I'm like 'noooooooo!'

Pure horror, I totally concur. But... I moved out from my parents' home with just two suitcases - and survived. (Not that I had any choice - they don't allow any more on transatlantic flights.) It feels much easier to throw stuff out after that experience. I still collect some needless junk, though. Frugal person should not whimsically dispose of things that someday might be of use, you know. And my sister who now owns our parents' home reminds me everytime I am there to "make order" with all those boxes containing my things, but somehow I can never find time to do that.

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I'm kind of like that. I have TONS of stuff in my closet and under my bed. I also have some of the stuff from when I was a little kid, including two blankets from my baby shower and I think I still have that plastic ball that had a button on top that made a squeaky noise and that had three detachable pieces.

I have numerous collections of stuff, from stuffed animals (some are on my bed and others are in Granny and Pap's [Grandma and Grandpa's for those who have never heard anybody call their grandparents Granny and/or Pap before] basement closet, still others are on a shelf organizer [attached to the wall above my bed] in my room) to Crazy Bones (which I have in a jar behind a framed picture of my mom on my shelf organizer) to Animal Crossing E-Reader cards (in my backpack [I recently emptied them from my scrapbook {a photo album with stuff like 4-leaf clovers, my theme park map/souvenir collection, and a list of emoticons for the chatroom here in it rather than JUST photographs, although there are some photos in there} to make more room for other stuff {for it} and so I could organize it easier]).

Other items/collections I haven't mentioned yet:

All the crayons I ever made with my Crayola crayon maker (except for the one I lost)(on my desk)
Most of the Model Magic creations I've made (that include Gracie Jr., Azrael Jr., and Blue [three ferret figures I made {on top of my <wooden> bookcase <yes, I'm running out of parantheses to use, so I HAVE to use these HTML brackets>}], a name sculpture [on my desk], and Iggy [Don't ask. {on one of the 2 shelves in my room <not counting the sets of shelves also in my room>}])
A drawing of me when I was 3 (I did NOT draw it. I can't draw overly realisticly. [above my desk but below my Beanie Baby shelf])
Beanie Babies (location mentioned above)
A lava lamp (yellow[?] liquid, red lava) that I won at Chuck-E-Cheese's (with the help of my dad [on my desk])
"Zaddy" (a squirrel lawn ornament I had since I was 3 [on top of my {wooden} bookcase])
A pop bottle thing (it's kind of hard to describe) that I made last year(?) at day camp (on my desk, near the lava lamp)
AMONG OTHERS.

Mich

Don't worry. You'll eventually find a place to squeeze all that stuff into. Why not buy more suitcases/a wagon or two/a Uhaul (well, maybe not a Uhaul) so you don't have to worry about the dump (OBVIOUSLY not applying for most furniture [except for the plastic no-tool kind that you can easily take apart and the "improvised" furniture made out of crates])! Or you could try to squeeze as much into your car as you possibly can (if you have a car, that is). Don't worry. You CAN haul off everything using these tips (hopefully).

No, I attach virtually no emotional sentiment to possessions. Maybe that's why I care so little about money and wealth.

I'm the same way. I have just about every toy I've ever owned along with old TVs, computers, VCRs, remote controls, keyboards, computer mice... you name it I have it Some of the electronic equipment doesn't even work anymore but I still keep it. A few weeks ago my family switched from cable to the Dish Network and I had to keep one of the cable remotes

I wonder if pack rats are more common among Aspies

I used to get more attached to some things... but in life, I have witnessed, of course: things such as divorce and death and those sort of separations are sadly a part of lives everywhere. There are some things I can separate myself easily from, such as certain material possessions which are not particularly linked with fond memories. But I know if I ever had an emotional bond to a cat, I'd hate to go on vacation or ever have to give it up!

That's why you need to go places where you can take your pets When I used to go camping everyone went, even my birds

So true, yes that is... what kind of birds ya got? I figure if I had a cat, I could take it camping (not sure that might the best idea with an Indoors cat though), but plane trips would be a bigger difficulty.

I have Zebra Finches I used to only have six but they started breeding and I just couldn't give away the babies. I have about 25 now

Wow, quite the family you got there So how do you take them all camping?

In certain cases I am sentimental, but in most cases (involving people) I am not. I am not at all sentimental over important occasions (weddings, funerals, etc.), although I am a very loving person.

I am sentimental about:
1. My possessions and the possessions of others.
2. Suffering (especially physical, and I tend to be more sentimental towards animals).