Why Do You Collect? because i got to have all toys

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

You're kind of implying that your way is best. Which is pretty subjective.

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The simple truth is that it's what works best for me.
I'm sure there are some people who are happiest and most productive in a cluttered environment. Maybe they find the chaos stimulating or motivating in some way. I really don't know. What I do know is that all of the disorganized people that I know personally are either pack rats, or are just too lazy to clean up their mess.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

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.

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Yes! I've been visiting with my folks in PA for a few days now. A little while ago I realized that I'm rarely more comfortable than I am when I'm here and I think that's a lot of why. Most of the living areas are so ridiculously clean and orderly to the point that you'd wonder if they were ever used. I kinda like that perpetual hotel feeling.

I'm completely indifferent. I can live in insane clutter for months, and then clean it, organize it, catalog it, and pack it away all in a day or two, depending on what else is going on.

I mean shit, right now I'm sharing a bed with 3 boxes, some notebooks, and a couple full size books. I could do that forever with out it bothering me. That alone would drive most people up a wall.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Houses like off of MTv cribs. They don't look lived in.

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If my apartment was seen by millions of people on national television, I would probably spend some time cleaning up.

My kitchen is consistently clean, but my bedroom, I only pick up every few days. Right now I have some clothes on the floor, a bag of weeds for a weed identification class, and school books strewn about. I will clean it all up when I don't have assignments to worry about, but it doesn't both me in the meantime.

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Originally Posted by Tones

a bag of weeds for a weed identification class

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wait, wait, wait

elaborate

Let's see, there's some Carolina Dichondra, Florida Beggartick, matchweed, globe sedge...

you're a beggartick

I'll let you in on a little secret... I also have a little stash of hemp sesbania. Don't tell anyone.

Weed science joke!

I have a tendency to keep everything that comes my way, but I have long since made a compromise that some how works for me. I sorted out things I could really stand to keep (things that would definitely be of use to me in the short term) and kept those, while getting rid of everything else, with one small caveat. I kept small parts, pieces or keepsakes from the things I would be getting rid of and attached them to a bulletin board which I still have. A cutting from a dust cover of a book, or cover of a magazine, DVD, CD or package. Sometimes parts of actual electronics, like the volume slider from a broken Genesis. If you're a bad packrat/hoarder, this small compromise could help. I'll take a picture of the board. I'm actually quite proud of it some how. It's also a repository of places I've been, things I've done, and so on. All the way down to movie ticket stubs. It's kinda neat to see a movie stub for Mars Attacks or tickets to the Astrodome or a trimming from GameFan.

Here's a large picture, I didn't manage to get the whole thing in the shot. O Well.

progpower usa bitches

oh and good choice with the golden axe pic