Pack-rat-itis

[nimrodiel]

I admit it.

I am a pack rat.

Most of the unpacked boxes in the apartment are mine. Most of the clothing in the closet belongs to me. I see Reuben who has exactly enough clothes for a weeks worth of clean clothes and I wonder how he can live like that.

We spent the weekend past at my cousin's house. His cats have a small case of fleas. THey said that they haven't had problems with the fleas being anywhere but the cats. But just to be safe we washed the bedding we had brought with.
Which led to me doing a massive laundry run and washing everything I had in the needs to be washed and sorted through pile.

The closet seems to be bursting. But it's partly not my fault. See our closet is located part ly under the slope of the roof. Reuben has his six long boxes of comics stored under the low shelf so, I can't use it to hang my shirts and my skirts. SO everything is hung up on the taller shelf, thus leading to looking cramped.

This is the first time since I moved that everything has been washed (or rewashed) and hung up at once.

While I was sorting through clothes I was trying to get rid of as well as organize and hang up. And you know what? It was hard to do. Every piece of clothing I touched had memories to it. Shirts I remember finding at thrift stores, shoes bought for clubbing or bought for me by close friends, Jeans with a 32" waist that I've been holding onto for when I loose weight(if I get down to a 32"waist again I'll gpo buy new jeans, my current wardrobe won't fit by then), I've gotten rid of blankets we found at garage sales for incredibly cheap when living in the energy inefficient house on fourth st., tee shirts proclaiming slogans that I believed in high school and still hold close to my heart now.

I have a box of stuff for the next Amvets pick up, and more stuff to sort through. But it's hard. It was hard to go through the clothes and shoes, I'm dreading going through the boxes of *stuff* I've accumulated. Everything has memories or I might be able to use later on.

I've got too much stuff currently. I need to get rid of stuff. But I don't know if I can do it by myself. And I don't think Reuben will help. Or , well I don't think I can use Reuben's help. He is of the ïf it isn't being used, it needs to be tossed" mindset.

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I'm at least as bad as you

[linnapaw.livejournal.com]

I've got slips of _paper_ that I *can't* part with.. A receipt from an ATM in Denmark, a receipt/ticket for a bus trip to Venice two years ago, candy wrappers of Russian candy that Alex gave me over a year ago. They're tangible objects of people and things we remember, and of a times that will never repeat themselves.

I'm coming in on the 23rd, will be leaving again Dec 3rd. It would be cool if we could get together. :)