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You know you’re in a long term relationship when your better half starts throwing away your stuff without asking.
by FujiApple 4y ago
You know you’re in a long term relationship when your better half starts throwing away your stuff without asking.
- dougmwne 4y agoOof, no please ask. 15 years in and manners still matter.
- bckr 4y agoAnd it’s also important to keep your stuff in separate places so that there’s no question about whose it is or whether it should be tossed
- throwaway744678 4y agoOh, man. Our home has a two-stage "recycle bin" policy, though: some of my stuff "gets moved" to a random box in the cellar; if I don't ask for it for a few months, it gets "donated". You know.
- yojo 4y agoHaha. We do that with our kids’ old toys - rarely comes into play, but saves much heartache when it does. There’s a similar trick for papers covering your desk; without looking, shove them all in a Manila folder, date, and seal. If you haven’t felt compelled to open it in three months, throw it away without opening. Admittedly the utility depends on how much you/your office likes paper. Or if you go to an office.
- DavidPeiffer 4y ago> There’s a similar trick for papers covering your desk; without looking, shove them all in a Manila folder, date, and seal. If you haven’t felt compelled to open it in three months, throw it away without opening. My family moved into our house when I was 3. Around age 9 we were going to finish the basement and a stack of boxes from the move came into discussion. When I proposed the idea, it was not really considered by my parents. I've proposed it again to my wife after a move or two, and again she didn't take me up on it. Maybe someday I'll get to give the method a shot.
- InitialLastName 4y ago> without looking, shove them all in a Manila folder, date, and seal. If you haven’t felt compelled to open it in three months, throw it away without opening. This needs to be ~1 year, to make sure there's nothing important for taxes in the pile.
- yojo 4y agoThis was specific to work-in-the-office desks, which I never bring my personal papers to. But yes, don’t try this with your home office!
- ilyt 4y agoI thought about that Just put random crap in a box with a date in it. You can take it out if it is useful but you can't put new stuff in. Once the date is up, toss/sell it. Basically expiration date for stuff.
- agilob 4y agobut I might need this cable in 10 years!! fast forward 5 years, I needed a VGA cable and it was nowhere to be found
- OJFord 4y agoI have all my cables in (categorised) 5L Really Useful Boxes. It's probably too many anyway, but I reasoned if 5L isn't enough to contain them, then either the category is too broad or I don't need the cable I'm trying to fit in.
- ZiiS 4y agoreconsiders the 7 21L Really useful Boxes of cables.
- thrtythreeforty 4y agoI find it helps to think of this scenario as paying Amazon/eBay $4 to store it for you for several years.
- agilob 4y agobut then I would be giving Amazon money, when my drawer can do it for free.
- RealityVoid 4y agoIt's not really free of you can't find shit anywhere because of the many cables in the drawer, you meet to move it around if wou redecorate or move and you need increased home space to store all the stuff. I like having tools in my home, don't get me wrong, but storage being free is an illusion. I still think the cost to be worth it.
- agilob 4y agoOk I get it, but it's not a quantitative cost.
- balfirevic 4y agoThat's a good way to make me strongly reconsider being in that relationship.
- rjh29 4y agoIt wouldn't be acceptable to me in any length of relationship. Different strokes for different folks.
- Geloto 4y agoWhat? Never. I never would do that and my wife never did this.