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Cleaning up your life/past
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| tribu |
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 .
Today, on a suggestion from my mother, I decided to take cleaning a step further and purge my desk of all the old life 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? |
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| UWM |
| Enough with the euphemisms. Just say porn. |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | 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. |
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| vswede |
| hair from 4 people?? wtfff |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | 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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| Basstard |
| quote: | 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! |
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| josh4 |
| how do you come up with these threads |
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| tribu |
| quote: | 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. |
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| requiemofnanqel |
| 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 :p :p :wtf: so it's kind of hard to throw them away. I will! :tongue2 :tongue2 eventually :wtf: :tongue2 |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | 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. |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | 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.
:D
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| Lotus |
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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