I found stuff from 2010 in my room

Started by Altairis March 13th, 2015 10:59 PM
  • 482 views
  • 21 replies

Altairis

take me ☆ take you

Female
database database
Seen December 29th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2018
5,170 posts
11 Years
I just did this massive clean of my room and I had so much crap in it. So much. I found some art piece under my bed that I did it middle school (that was five+ years ago) and some papers from last year's classes this is embarrassing

do you guys leave as much crap around as I do? do you, unlike me, actually throw things away before they accumulate into a massive pile?

ORAS/XYBW

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
Yeah I do, although I don't have much "old" stuff in my room at the moment aside from some plushies that I've had since the early-mid 2000's at least, and maybe a few books from that long ago as well that I never even read these days.

Even when my mother (who's always unhappy with my room) tries to spring clean it, she never even gets around to dumping my junk because I'm always trying to hold onto it.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
Visit my Tumblr page if you wish to contact me.

http://daikenkki.tumblr.com/

Aslan

she/her
Seen 6 Days Ago
Posted 1 Week Ago
3,108 posts
10.2 Years
I have loads of old crap lying around in my room. Scrapbooks, work from primary school, drawings, school projects, exam marks, whatever. There's a huge pile on my desk for all of them.

And while I do think it'd be nice to sort it all out, my want to clean it is outweighed by my laziness so yeahhh I'll just leave it how it is. ):
paired with Austin

Foxrally

ya boi
a Torterra's back
Seen 2 Days Ago
Posted 4 Days Ago
2,784 posts
10.1 Years
I do that a lot with exam papers and school stuff. I still have my seventh grade exams with me *shudders*
Ex-mod of RPT - Pairs: Gligar & gimmepie
Friend Code
SW-5146-5893-7210
I make memes and other carcinogens
I'm chaotically organized - my crap is strewn everywhere, but I know exactly where everything is. Well, where the important things are. The rest is a surprise I frequently rediscover. I throw out scraps of paper and irrelevant documents and whatnot, but rarely do I throw out anything else. I'm not a hoarder, but I am loathe to toss stuff out...or keep things tidy. Keeping things tidy means packing them away, and if you pack something away, the second you're done you're going to need it again, and it'll be right at the bottom of the pile. It ALWAYS happens. It's a universal law.

Jayce

x-kid

Age 28
Female
Portland, OR
Seen February 25th, 2016
Posted November 9th, 2015
204 posts
8.4 Years
I cleared out my room a couple of months ago, it was quite a chore. So much crap... I have a tendency to shove things I don't need into my closet, and I've been going that for like 5 years. So, yeah.

And I found a movie ticket (Chronicles of Narnia) from 2005. I didn't even live in this city in 2005 so idk how that was still floating around, but there ya go.

[ tumblr | goodreads | last.fm ]

I poured my aching heart into a pop song
I couldn't get the hang of poetry.

starseed galaxy auticorn

PC's Resident Auticorn

Age 34
she/he/they
the land of magical unicorns
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted 1 Week Ago
6,648 posts
18.9 Years
omfg yes. I have so much stuff in my room like you wouldn't believe. My bedroom is small, yet there's all this crap cluttering it. I can't clean it because I have no other place for it to go. It's so bad that even my closet is cluttered. I don't like throwing muk away because I seem to have a habit of getting emotionally-attached to just about everything. It really sucks because I know a lot of it could just be thrown out.

Nolafus

Aspiring something

Age 27
Male
Lost in thought... again
Seen March 3rd, 2018
Posted March 11th, 2017
5,722 posts
10.9 Years
Once I moved out on my own, I had to decide whether or not it was worth it to keep some of my old stuff. A fair amount went to some random storage spot in my parents' house, some I threw away, and the rest I brought with me. My parents made me deep clean my room every summer, so I guess I didn't have too much stuff to throw away. Although, I guess it was bad enough to warrant the nickname, "packrat" from my parents, haha.
PairPC sister

Melody

Banned

Female
Cuddling those close to me
Seen March 4th, 2018
Posted March 2nd, 2018
6,459 posts
18.6 Years
I'm chaotically organized - my crap is strewn everywhere, but I know exactly where everything is. Well, where the important things are. The rest is a surprise I frequently rediscover. I throw out scraps of paper and irrelevant documents and whatnot, but rarely do I throw out anything else. I'm not a hoarder, but I am loathe to toss stuff out...or keep things tidy. Keeping things tidy means packing them away, and if you pack something away, the second you're done you're going to need it again, and it'll be right at the bottom of the pile. It ALWAYS happens. It's a universal law.
Chaotic Order Organizers Unite! :D

This is something I do. While how I may organize may look busy/cluttered/insane...it's also addressed very specifically in a very precise map in my mind. Moving it tends to cause temporary loss of the object until I LEAST NEED THAT OBJECT! (yet another Universal Law) Usually when I'm looking for something else entirely. No; I don't need no organizers; I often cannot visualize them as well; strewn out in a visual/logical pattern of ordered chaos is very much easier for my brain to browse.

I hate it when people move things around in my living/working/operating/temp spaces. Drives me nuts!!!! I really hate people who insist that things must be neat. *hiss*
Age 31
Male
Seen January 1st, 2016
Posted March 27th, 2015
270 posts
9 Years
I've thrown out practically every bit of school work I ever did because I get embarrassed about it. It might be the sort of deal I regret later in life (as I know plenty of people that literally keep everything they've ever done including my brother), but to me it's like why would I ever want to read a crappy essay I wrote when I was 15? Space and time are a bit of a premium in my life right now, so I don't really want half of my closet space filled up with crappy work I did in high school. University work on the other hand I do keep as I'm paying good money for my education, and the vast majority of it is digital, so I can just keep it on a hard-drive. So I guess I technically do have some stuff from 2010 lying around from my first year of Uni.
Seen January 1st, 2023
Posted March 23rd, 2022
3,316 posts
9.2 Years
During the summer of 2012 I was out of high school and changing rooms so I decided to go through everything and just throw away what I really didn't need. I had a lot of things saved from past friends and just childish things. I threw out almost everything I had, but it was a really good feeling. I started in my new room with almost nothing besides my clothes and jewelry and I've built up the rest of my stuff since then, but now that stuff actually applies to me

gimmepie

Age 27
Male
Australia
Seen 10 Hours Ago
Posted 13 Hours Ago
24,970 posts
11.1 Years
I have two crates and a large under-bed drawer pretty much full of assorted crap from various stages of my life that for some reason hold some sort of sentimental value.
RPWLA&MVGGaming Journal

Tsutarja

Age 28
he / him
Florida
Seen 4 Hours Ago
Posted 13 Hours Ago
27,327 posts
13.2 Years
I have crates of Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars under my bed that I used to actively play with when I was a child. Same for those educational puzzles.

Sonata

Don't let me disappear

Age 27
Male
Indiana
Seen 7 Hours Ago
Posted March 25th, 2023
13,619 posts
10.2 Years
Nope. I am all about letting the work pile up and then tackling it in one swift movement. I can't stand doing a thousand things individually. I don't have stuff from 5+ years ago just laying around in piles though. I go through a complete room remodel just about every year or two. Take all of my stuff out of my room, clean the ceiling, clean the walls, sweep the carpet, clean the baseboards, and then throw in some of those bug grenades to make sure there's nothing crawling around.

Aurora

seven years here and i finally figure out how to delete albums

Age 24
Female
Amsterdam
Seen October 26th, 2020
Posted September 10th, 2019
859 posts
10.1 Years
I am a pathologically awful organiser and this, naturally, extends to how much stuff I leave around. If I were to dig around my room enough I'm sure I'd find a boatload of stuff from several years ago just because I never threw it out or stored it elsewhere.

Sylphiel

Between your fantasy and my reality
Seen March 28th, 2023
Posted January 9th, 2023
13,114 posts
18.5 Years
I only just moved into this current place as of 5 years ago, so there's not too much I have that could have piled up that's really old. Although I will say that I drove my mom absolutely insane at times in the past because I, too, am the kind of person who just seems to throw everything anywhere but I actually have an idea where it is. Always drove me nuts whenever she cleaned my room for me, because then I had no idea where anything was then, but anyway...

Even so, I do still have some stuff from almost 20 years ago that I brought with me that had been hiding out in my old room. When I moved I took a bunch of my old sketchbooks with me - I never throw out sketchbooks, so those have piled up over the years - and one or two are easily from back in 1998.

And then I still have some old college coursework - basically more artwork, but it was some other paper stuff as well - from the mid-2000s because I never cleaned out the trunk currently in my closet that I used while I was there.

I'm pretty sure I could look around here and find other stuff from five years ago after I moved in, though. There's bound to be some hiding somewhere!

moon

they/them
Seen 10 Hours Ago
Posted 6 Days Ago
37,443 posts
15.5 Years
Nah. I'm the kind of person who prefers to throw things away than keep them laying around. You won't find many old memories around my home.
paired with Ivysaur

Meadow

Clustering Wishes

Road to Tomorrow
Seen June 10th, 2021
Posted May 15th, 2021
10,718 posts
15.9 Years
This actually happens quite often in my case. I mean, I'm already in college and I still have some homework saved from my freshman year of high school. O_O

I throw away most stuff, but some things manage to survive the test of time, for reasons I don't even know anymore. (Like, what the actual hell was I thinking when I decided to save 'em, y'know?)

"Anyone can connect with anyone, just as anything can connect with anything. That's all there is to life—an endless series of connections. Even when there's no solution, people grow stronger to keep searching for connections."

PMD ClubWright Anything Agency#TeamTrivia

Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
Nope. I am all about letting the work pile up and then tackling it in one swift movement. I can't stand doing a thousand things individually. I don't have stuff from 5+ years ago just laying around in piles though. I go through a complete room remodel just about every year or two. Take all of my stuff out of my room, clean the ceiling, clean the walls, sweep the carpet, clean the baseboards, and then throw in some of those bug grenades to make sure there's nothing crawling around.
Apparently that's the best method to cleaning and keeping things organized. Instead of gradually getting rid of things, you have a day where you think to yourself, "I'm going to spend the entire day reworking everything."

I probably go through those phases several times a year, both my room and closet, but more often the latter. I do identify myself as being a sentimental person so I become attached to items such as cards given by friends, gifts, etc. so there's a number of them littering my room. Though I try vehemently not to become a borderline hoarder like my mom. Whenever I reorganize my room, I always seem to need an extra box here-and-there or if I'm lazy, I'll simply resort to throwing them out.