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I don't like throwing old shit out but eventually I will do it.
if I haven't used something in like, a year, or I haven't looked at it and felt some kind of sentimental value, I'll chuck it. It's like eventually I just get angry that it's in my space and I finally ditch it.
Most of the time I eventually wind up using every last little thing I have at some point.
i try to sell or give away things I'm not using or even like. I also try to make a conscience effort to buy things at a lower price than what I know it can be resold for.
Having things and having clutter are not the same. My place is about as organized as it could be most of the time, because if I'm not working on something, I put it away, along with whatever tools I had out. It's not difficult to put up some shelves and put your shit in plastic bins or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I can't stand having random shit strewn all over the place. It makes it hard to find things, clogs up usable space, and it just makes for an unpleasant environment.
I could take the time to poke holes in all of this, but if I do it will end in some sort of 2 page nerd battle between those that have OCD for keeping things organized, and those that really don't care either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
this is the key to how you feel about this and how you stay organized.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
EDIT: What I was talking about originally, wasn't people who have lots of shelves. I'm talking about room after room of furniture, but no full sized shelves and no "stuff" anywhere. Houses like off of MTv cribs. They don't look lived in.
There's really nothing there to poke holes in to begin with. I don't waste time with excessive and pointless organization. I just prefer to do things in a way that saves me time and trouble.
You're kind of implying that your way is best. Which is pretty subjective.
I get obsessive about my iTunes library. I am always fixing tags, looking for better artwork, getting higher quality rips of stuff I already had and then retagging those, etc. And I've only ever listened to half the stuff. I'm trying to get myself to go through and delete stuff, but... I have the harddrive space...
I am you or perhaps you are me?
My iTunes library is almost 200gb at this point. It is FUCKING PERFECT. Except for cover art... and you better believe I'm working on that shit.
Yeah, more and more my hobbies / collections are digital: web design, music, Japanese TV, music videos, stuff like that. So it would be very easy for me to have most of my hobby-type stuff sitting on a hard drive and not as physical stuff in my living space.
I'd love to have as few "things" in my life as possible. I hate clutter / messiness, yet I still allow myself to fall into it sometimes. If I could magically live a life where my living space looks like nobody is actually living there, I'd do so in an instant.
Yeah, I only have 100gb in my library... but I have another 100gb folder with unsorted music and videos that I haven't gotten around to importing (if I can't check the tags when I import, and they're bad, I'll never find them again).Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh