I'm much closer to trash-it-all than a pack rat. I love order and minimalism, and I'd probably lose my mind if you locked me in a messy room for a while (or I'd clean everything up ;)). I find chaos very distracting and I have a need to have everything arranged.
However, it wasn't always like that; when I as younger, I hoarded everything. My desk was so piled with every possible item that I had to shuffle them about whenever I needed space for drawing or doing my homework. It's hard to say what caused the change, but I'm glad it happened :)
Same as Patrycja when I was younger I had a lot of stuff and actually I didn’t really know how to keep order in my room. But with every next year I would clean up my room (I had to do it more frequently don’t worry ;), but every year I went through all the cabinets and did more thorough cleaning)and threw away more and more stuff. So by the time when I became a teenager I had pretty much thrown away most of unnecessary things (of course I kept important souvenirs and some stuff I just moved to the basement (it’s a perk of living in a house)).
Sometimes my room is messy but I don’t gather unnecessary things so cleaning doesn’t take me too much time. On the other hand I’m in the middle of changing flats and I’m amazed how much stuff I have and how much things I have to pack and move. I should be moving tomorrow and I’m not even close to finish (of packing)!
It is a topic that is really interesting for me, because I am definitely a trash-it-all. I've watched a documentary mentioned in the article. I was really disgusted seeing all those houses. I feel really uncomfortable when I am forced to spend time in cluttered spaces – like sitting at someone's desk when I used to work in computer help-desk.
Just before writing this comment, I was cleaning my room and I trashed a couple of old cellphones together with their accessories – I won't use them so I won't keep them around and won't let the space to be wasted.
But I have to admit, that there is a "pack-rat –isch" part of me: I tend to collect electronic parts and everything that is connected with computer hardware. But I don't let those part pile up. They are neatly organized in a couple of labeled boxes.
This is a funny thing. Few years ago I was a person that was buying things that seems to be too ‘pretty’ or ‘cool’ to being used. So i kept them for years, either because I was afraid that I will use them up or because there will be visible marks of use. So after years some of things like food that I brought from different countries had expired date or clothes now seems to be childish.
Around 3 years ago it has changed absolutely. I was cleaning and I was in a mood of removing all things. At some point still I am a pack rat it term of for instance clothes, but finally I got rid of this stupid habit of buying souvenirs that later you anyway have to throw out.
This is another thing that differentiate people so much. And when to think about it is seems to be very funny. All of those quarrels because of throwing away someone’s thing are insane.
I have to say, as far back as I can remember, I always aspired to be a pack rat. Nothing has changed a lot, I'm still reprimanded by my mom, sometimes I bump into thing I haven't seen many years, well, my room is a museum :D I think I'm nostalgic person, I'm very commited to gifts, toys and things I rather don't use every day. I also make hand-made things like jewellery and I have a lot of materials, beads, textiles... so, everything is important for me, I think so :)
Sometimes it makes me want to laugh, and I wish someday I'll be closer to trash-it-all person.
I rather in "trash it all" group. I try to dispose things which i don't use... to make place for something new :) In fact I have a big locker of DIY things which somebody could call "rubbish" but I need it for my projects. I admit that sometimes is hard to sell or throw away some things but usually pragramtism wins.
People love to collect diffrent stuff and we all have in our houses something that we don't really need but we want to keep it. When we start to behave too extreme and start colecting objects and don't want to throw them away we can called it an illnes. In America it called compulsive hoarding and people need a lot of years to get cured. I saw a lot of rooms of collections of toys or figures or favorite character form games or movies but they try to keep it clean. In Japan they call people Otaku If they are collecting everything from anime and they try to look like they are from favorite animation.
I'm rather type of "trash-it-all" I don't have any problem with throwing objects out of my space except 3 items from my childhood. This items are pegasus video console, commodore 64 computer and my first mascot. I'm really attached to those 3 object from my childhood, because those objects had huge impact in my life. Thanks to pegasus and commodore I got interested in computer games and IT and now I'm a IT student who can make my own games. My first mascot is just first gift , which I have received from my parents in my life and I really like it.
I agree with Katarzyna Przybysz people love to collect. Unfortunately, all this things need to have place. People do not only collect but don`t clean. Personally, I`m don`t like perfect orders but without exaggeration. Everything has to have a place to put off. Clutter in the home from this article it is exaggeration.
Personally, I think that exaggeration in each direction is bad. In untidiness I don`t fell good. And when is too clean I'm scared to touch something. I like to find something in between.
In my opinion, I think that the safety system of voting for a president election or a major should be the most controled and most fair , which it is, but unfortunatly the most powerfull people in a given country have their ways of cheating the system in different ways. It will be like that and it always has been like that. But I think that you cant take control of the voting for sure (100%) even though I think it should be fair so that our votes count and so that we have a say in what is happening in our country and who should be the ruler.
I am definitely a trash-it-all type, because I can manage to pack in a half an hour and move to another place :) I don’t like to have too many things because in that case I can’t find anything.
I like very minimalistic approach, but on the other hands, as a engineer everything is allways everywhere. I like it that way. simpler to grab things on the go as You need them, rather than spend precious time to find it somewhere stuck in a drawer of some sort. Labeling is also useless in my case. My things come and go (I sell a lot on allegro and ebay) so most of the time it's old stuff getting sold and new stuff getting in.
I'm definitely not a packt rat. I don't like to store many things, but it doesn't mean I trash everything. I'm also quite sentimental and like to keep things that have special meaning to me.
I also think that making your home totally sterile is as bad as extreme pact ratting. It just feels and looks like you don't really feel at home.
I'm much closer to trash-it-all than a pack rat. I love order and minimalism, and I'd probably lose my mind if you locked me in a messy room for a while (or I'd clean everything up ;)). I find chaos very distracting and I have a need to have everything arranged.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it wasn't always like that; when I as younger, I hoarded everything. My desk was so piled with every possible item that I had to shuffle them about whenever I needed space for drawing or doing my homework. It's hard to say what caused the change, but I'm glad it happened :)
ReplyDeleteSame as Patrycja when I was younger I had a lot of stuff and actually I didn’t really know how to keep order in my room. But with every next year I would clean up my room (I had to do it more frequently don’t worry ;), but every year I went through all the cabinets and did more thorough cleaning)and threw away more and more stuff. So by the time when I became a teenager I had pretty much thrown away most of unnecessary things (of course I kept important souvenirs and some stuff I just moved to the basement (it’s a perk of living in a house)).
Sometimes my room is messy but I don’t gather unnecessary things so cleaning doesn’t take me too much time. On the other hand I’m in the middle of changing flats and I’m amazed how much stuff I have and how much things I have to pack and move. I should be moving tomorrow and I’m not even close to finish (of packing)!
It is a topic that is really interesting for me, because I am definitely a trash-it-all. I've watched a documentary mentioned in the article. I was really disgusted seeing all those houses. I feel really uncomfortable when I am forced to spend time in cluttered spaces – like sitting at someone's desk when I used to work in computer help-desk.
ReplyDeleteJust before writing this comment, I was cleaning my room and I trashed a couple of old cellphones together with their accessories – I won't use them so I won't keep them around and won't let the space to be wasted.
But I have to admit, that there is a "pack-rat –isch" part of me: I tend to collect electronic parts and everything that is connected with computer hardware. But I don't let those part pile up. They are neatly organized in a couple of labeled boxes.
This is a funny thing. Few years ago I was a person that was buying things that seems to be too ‘pretty’ or ‘cool’ to being used. So i kept them for years, either because I was afraid that I will use them up or because there will be visible marks of use. So after years some of things like food that I brought from different countries had expired date or clothes now seems to be childish.
ReplyDeleteAround 3 years ago it has changed absolutely. I was cleaning and I was in a mood of removing all things. At some point still I am a pack rat it term of for instance clothes, but finally I got rid of this stupid habit of buying souvenirs that later you anyway have to throw out.
This is another thing that differentiate people so much. And when to think about it is seems to be very funny. All of those quarrels because of throwing away someone’s thing are insane.
I have to say, as far back as I can remember, I always aspired to be a pack rat. Nothing has changed a lot, I'm still reprimanded by my mom, sometimes I bump into thing I haven't seen many years, well, my room is a museum :D I think I'm nostalgic person, I'm very commited to gifts, toys and things I rather don't use every day.
ReplyDeleteI also make hand-made things like jewellery and I have a lot of materials, beads, textiles... so, everything is important for me, I think so :)
Sometimes it makes me want to laugh, and I wish someday I'll be closer to trash-it-all person.
I rather in "trash it all" group. I try to dispose things which i don't use... to make place for something new :)
ReplyDeleteIn fact I have a big locker of DIY things which somebody could call "rubbish" but I need it for my projects.
I admit that sometimes is hard to sell or throw away some things but usually pragramtism wins.
People love to collect diffrent stuff and we all have in our houses something that we don't really need but we want to keep it.
ReplyDeleteWhen we start to behave too extreme and start colecting objects and don't want to throw them away we can called it an illnes.
In America it called compulsive hoarding and people need a lot of years to get cured.
I saw a lot of rooms of collections of toys or figures or favorite character form games or movies but they try to keep it clean.
In Japan they call people Otaku If they are collecting everything from anime and they try to look like they are from favorite animation.
I'm rather type of "trash-it-all" I don't have any problem with throwing objects out of my space except 3 items from my childhood. This items are pegasus video console, commodore 64 computer and my first mascot. I'm really attached to those 3 object from my childhood, because those objects had huge impact in my life. Thanks to pegasus and commodore I got interested in computer games and IT and now I'm a IT student who can make my own games. My first mascot is just first gift , which I have received from my parents in my life and I really like it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Katarzyna Przybysz people love to collect. Unfortunately, all this things need to have place. People do not only collect but don`t clean. Personally, I`m don`t like perfect orders but without exaggeration. Everything has to have a place to put off. Clutter in the home from this article it is exaggeration.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that exaggeration in each direction is bad. In untidiness I don`t fell good. And when is too clean I'm scared to touch something. I like to find something in between.
In my opinion, I think that the safety system of voting for a president election or a major should be the most controled and most fair , which it is, but unfortunatly the most powerfull people in a given country have their ways of cheating the system in different ways. It will be like that and it always has been like that. But I think that you cant take control of the voting for sure (100%) even though I think it should be fair so that our votes count and so that we have a say in what is happening in our country and who should be the ruler.
ReplyDeleteI am definitely a trash-it-all type, because I can manage to pack in a half an hour and move to another place :) I don’t like to have too many things because in that case I can’t find anything.
ReplyDeleteI like very minimalistic approach, but on the other hands, as a engineer everything is allways everywhere. I like it that way. simpler to grab things on the go as You need them, rather than spend precious time to find it somewhere stuck in a drawer of some sort.
ReplyDeleteLabeling is also useless in my case. My things come and go (I sell a lot on allegro and ebay) so most of the time it's old stuff getting sold and new stuff getting in.
I'm definitely not a packt rat. I don't like to store many things, but it doesn't mean I trash everything. I'm also quite sentimental and like to keep things that have special meaning to me.
ReplyDeleteI also think that making your home totally sterile is as bad as extreme pact ratting. It just feels and looks like you don't really feel at home.