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Cleaning up your life/past

Does anyone else have a space where all their personal clutter collects? Between roughly 6th grade and 13th grade (first year of post-secondary), all of my clutter ended up getting stuffed into my desk's drawers. This included a wide variety of objects from casette tapes, school notes/tests, social/love notes (many of which were somewhat painful to review), old electronics, magazines for masturbation, guitar tabs, sheet music, magazines, books, a ton of photos (numbering over 500) and even more sports cards, computer discs and a ton of other shit.

Today, on a suggestion from my mother, I decided to take cleaning a step further and purge my desk of all the old life shit that was worthless. Basically, if it wasn't some kind of fact sheet, photo, art/office supply, or something currently worthwhile, it went in the garbage. Most of it was paper and glass, and I filled a garbage bag on the desk alone. I am definitely a type of hoarder so I shudder to imagine what a similar cleaning of my bookshelf, closet, and end table would show. However, my desk was definitely the most full of trash, so I thought that would make a good starting point. The stuff in those two places is a bit more recent and probably less personal.

So to give this thread a point, have you ever cleared out a space full of personal objects collected over the years? What sorts of things did you find? Did the removal of physical objects reminiscent of your past give you some kind of closure for those time periods, if you needed it at all?

Enough with the euphemisms. Just say porn.

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Originally posted by UWM Enough with the euphemisms. Just say porn.

that was deep, bro.

i had a box that i put stuff that i thought were valuable in while i was in high school, and i looked it over when i was on leave. i have hair from like 4 different people, some notes, a few parts of playstations from when my friends and i were bored. fond memories. a few not so fond, but mostly fond.

hair from 4 people?? wtfff

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Originally posted by vswede hair from 4 people?? wtfff

i had one friend that was a hippie, and she had dreadlocks, but cut them off, so i have one of those

and one girl dyed her hair like rainbow so she made me a braid and i have that

n then just some random choppings. i dunno, i think it has sentimental value.

the dread is like 3 yrs old and it still smells like hippie.

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Originally posted by vswede hair from 4 people?? wtfff

what? you're trying to say you don't collect a few strands of your close friends' pubic region when they are asleep?

well excuse us mr high and mighty!

how do you come up with these threads

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Originally posted by josh4 how do you come up with these threads

Because Im an idiot, right?

I was just cleaning out my desk today, that's all, and it was something I expected a stronger emotional response from, but i found I was able to go through my past almost indifferently, with a handfful of strong exceptions.

In my computer room I had 2 boxes that had stuff like that such as pictures, important school work, letters, and what not. I was able to throw those away easily now it's a matter of throwing away my journals. I tend to be a writer and I tend to become attached to my journals so it's kind of hard to throw them away. I will! eventually

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Originally posted by tribu Because Im an idiot, right? I was just cleaning out my desk today, that's all, and it was something I expected a stronger emotional response from, but i found I was able to go through my past almost indifferently, with a handfful of strong exceptions.

the reflective man makes an unsure prosecutor.

Re: Cleaning up your life/past

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Originally posted by tribu Does anyone else have a space where all their personal clutter collects? Did the removal of physical objects reminiscent of your past give you some kind of closure for those time periods, if you needed it at all?

You have personal problems and sounds like you still live with mum and mum is steering your life. I left that stage over 30+ years ago and my mum is dead anyhow. The point here is to tell you to hike up your shorts and start doing things on your own, foremost would be leaving home.


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He wasn't asking about moving out, or anything. He was only asking if there's people who have important belongings from the past.

Personally, I keep a few things. The stuff that really matters. The rest of the junk, I keep in some boxes in the garage. I don't see myself getting rid of most of what I have.

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Originally posted by Lotus He wasn't asking about moving out, or anything....

Agreed. Regardless of where you live, personal clutter is a mainstay of many people's lives. I have lots of little pockets of them, but this was a major one that was temporally proportional to an Egyptian tomb: it hadn't been touched in a quarter of my life. It was weird emptying all that shit out, but I expected it, like I said, to be highly emotional. I hadn't seen alot of those things, thought about them, or the people they related to in a long time. Imagine digging up a collection of high school papers Smoke, and tell me it wouldn't raise strong feelings including nostalgia, happiness, and disapointment. Even if you chose to lie to yourself and say that it was so, I wouldn't believe you.

Two side notes: Im on pace to move out of here by September. One year of living at home after 5 years of independence has been enough to destory every last shread of self-esteem and self-respect I might have once had. Also, nice attempt to peg me, but any issues I might have go well beyond my mother.

i have a box of memorablilia (sp?) that i keep in my room. but it's just a small box. Like i think its crazy that ppl keep truck loads of useless shit from like 10 years ago that they barely remember.

Oh, I love this. "Regardless of where you live". And you still live at home with mom? BWAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!

'nuff said....kinda breaks through the mystic aura...


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Of course I still live at home with my parents, so what?

I'd say trying to bring it up in a insulting context three times within 45 minutes is sadder. But I, of course, don't expect any analytical thinking from you anytime soon.

Shutup and go to your room!

HAHAHHAHAAAAA!!!!!

What a dweeb.....


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Bump!

Re: Cleaning up your life/past

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Originally posted by tribu So to give this thread a point, have you ever cleared out a space full of personal objects collected over the years? What sorts of things did you find? Did the removal of physical objects reminiscent of your past give you some kind of closure for those time periods, if you needed it at all?

Aye, done it loads of times.

Usually, I would incinerate whatever I felt I didn't need anymore (although some of what's become ashes had some sentimental value). However, I do have a small briefcase where I keep some stuff that reminds me of my past (e.g. the first birthday card I ever received).

Not only it was needed because of the lack of room (it would be impossible to keep it all), it felt like some sort of purification ritual - as if I was cleaning the "dirt" of my past and leaving only lessons and/or good memories

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