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> The items don't have to be large or important. I have OCD (which isn't hoarding, but manifests in similar ways), and it's as if there is not filter. _Everyth
by stordoff 8y ago
> The items don't have to be large or important.
I have OCD (which isn't hoarding, but manifests in similar ways), and it's as if there is not filter. _Everything_ is of equal value. That wrapper I just discarded, or this photo of my parents - they're of equal importance.
Yes, I _know_ they're of no use, but it _might_ be (is my OCD thought process).
- mirimir 8y ago> Yes, I _know_ they're of no use, but it _might_ be (is my OCD thought process). Hey, I know that "wrapper" is intended to induce eye roll. But I do save some bags and packaging. For example, laminated packaging with an Al layer + Al tape = temporary repair of a cracked roof slate.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI only recently threw away a (unused) Starbucks paper cup from ~2010. Life circumstances around the time it came into my possession made me particularly attached to an image printed on it, and thus the cup changed apartments with me twice before I finally realized it's just a dust collector and I don't care about it that much anymore. People are weird. Myself included.
- mirimir 8y agoYeah. My wife has a couple PBS "Downton Abbey" paper cups in the cabinet.
- stordoff 8y agoI wasn't meaning to imply that saving some packaging isn't rational (my mother does it - if nothing else, it's useful to reuse) , but when it's things I _know _ have no use (such as an individual sweet wrapper - I know rationally it has no practical use, but it still causes the same internal debate), and it's _everything_, that's when it becomes a problem. Similarly to TeMPOraL's point - saving things that have no practical use for sentimental reasons (or just because you like them) isn't a problem (or unusual), but when every piece of paper that comes through your door feels important, it's problematic.