Having had to clean out my deceased pack-rat parents' house, I try REALLY hard to not keep so much stuff. However, I had pack-rat parents and learned bad habits.
I keep concert/play/movie/sporting event tickets. I don't know why I would ever need to prove that i attended these events.
I keep Christmas and Birthday cards for long periods of time. (I will NEVER throw out the last one my father ever gave me though.)
I'll buy something useless because I think it's funny...ie Latke Larry who has the voice of Jerry Stiller and sings a song about Hanukkah. No, I'm not Jewish, but I love latkes.
I am a LOT better than I was, but I still have a closet full of clothes I don't wear anymore that need to make their way to a charity.
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Originally Posted by Plan9
Pictures of former lovers. They now all reside in a dusty footlocker I had in Afghanistan.
I put them in there and don't look at them. I don't know why I keep them.
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I do this too. I think it's because they helped mold who I am now. I like to look back on them and remember who I was at that time and who I am now... Reminders of the mistakes I made and how I will try to not make the same ones.