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I'm somewhat frightened even by the amount of Stuff I've built up in my house at Uni, and I'm only here during term-time. But it's still under control, I don't think there's much here that I really don't use and that is pure clutter. And I hat a bit of a cull the other week.
At my parents' house is a different story, but even there I cleared out a tiny bit when I was last there. Still, there's a lot that there's not much reason to keep, but I'm bad at throwing stuff out. Especially if I'm only ever there quite briefly. On the other hand, it's all in the loft or my room, so it doesn't really get in the way of the others when I'm not there.
As for acquiring stuff... well, like any geek, I have a (moderate, compared to some I know) tendency to accumulate the shinies of all sorts, although I'm often more into retro technology and seem to gather obsolete-but-functional shinies I can get for free.
The other one is food - there are quite a lot of items in my cupboard that I haven't touched in more than a year, and I'm always likely to buy some exotic and exciting ingredient I spot. I'm actually trying to get through that now, checking which ones are still edible and feeding them to my housemates...
Oooh - digital Stuff anyone? Files on your hard drive that you haven't touched in years? The oldest I could find right now was a Word file of some school work from 1996, but I know I've got older stuff around. And this is on a laptop that was only actually built in 2003! However, what with the continuing inflation of disc capacities, I don't really see a problem with keeping this. These ten-year-old files, even if they were considered huge back then, now take up less space than a single MP3 song, so why bother deleting them? |
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