Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Alas... Listen Ye To a Tale o' Woe!

Yeah, we recently had to kill off the little packrats living inside us. Finally went through the back bedroom and closet and got rid of a ton of stuff. Fortunately, one of my coworkers was having a yard sale...

I keep boxes for some electronics as I will eventually give it away or sell it (PS2 and Xbox and iboox for example). However, you are right on the money there John. I use moving for cleaning out crap. "Oh, that's been unopened for 3 years." Or "That's been at the back of the closet for 3 years." "Time to go." Luckily, where I live I can leave anything on the sidewalk and it's gone within minutes, if not hours.

Oh and I graduated 89 too. Woot! Did you ditch school to watch Heathers too?

jr

Sorry bigjohn, I can't help myself. I come from a long line of packrats. My father still has the original carburetor he replaced in his 1973 Camaro - just in case he buys another one and needs the part!

I need "HELP!"

In all seriousness, it can be a very problematic psychological disorder. I wish more people could/would/ avail themselves of help for this one. It would minimize those articles about rescue workers not being able to get into houses filled to the brim with old newspapers...

Mark, I remember you oogling the M80s in that high gloss finish awhile back. Maybe that is the way to go?

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In all seriousness, it can be a very problematic psychological disorder. I wish more people could/would/ avail themselves of help for this one. It would minimize those articles about rescue workers not being able to get into houses filled to the brim with old newspapers...

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Ken, this reminds me of my first job right after the Army with a local pesticide company, we had jobs in apartment buildings and condos where the association contracted us to do the whole building, we held the keys to each unit...some of the stuff I saw. I remember going into one particular aprtment and I couldn't barely walk in the front door, the bathtub was even full of crap, and I do mean full to the rim.

I was actually surprised how much of this I saw. Needless to say that is one job I didn't have for long.

Hi kcarlile

You're right of course. I didn't mean to be frivilous or make light of a potentially serious psychological condition or dangerous situation.

Dad keeps his junk in a small barn well away from the house. And we don't accumulate paper products - we recycle them.

Oh, I wasn't objecting to you making light of it, I was just bringing it up as a topic for dicussion.

just SHUTTY, ya dang packrat!!

bigjohn

Hey, Martha Stewart has a great solution for boxes! When you buy something new, you take a sticky note and a thick felt-tip pen, and you write the 'throw-away' date on it. So if the product has a five year warranty and you buy it today, you'd write 'May 2010'. You also staple the bill of sale to the box at the time, so if you do need to do anything you have what you need right there. Then when you're in your basement putting a new box in, you check the dates on the other ones. Seems like a good idea!