It is very difficult for me to part with my things !!!

On the contrary I am one person who would always give out any personal things like clothes that I do not wear. I hate crowded closet so all those I do not wear, I give away. Same is through with my bags, shoes and other belongings that I don't use but i feel could still be of use to other persons. Instead of letting them stand useless for long time, I just give them away for other to utilize.

No sorry, I do not go through this but im sure you are not THE ONLY ONE. But also i like to keep some things. but i just keep it till its gets on my nerves from being in the way. thats when i usually give it away or throw it away....

NOPE, I use to save a lot but I finally decided that life is too short and my house is not big enough....So I get rid of things, it is too hard to hold onto things now adays, I even will sell and if I can not sell I give away as fast as I can, I am a family of 4 now, when it was just me, it was different and I would save a lot but I also would have more room to save stuff thinking that i would use it in the future. But in all honesty, if I have not seen it and I run into it after a year, I just toss it!!!!

Apparently studies have Shown We're disposed to be packrats! Your possessions that you've bought or accumulated become part of your valued Items,and thus can be hard to let go of.. It's reckoned though,If You haven't worn something within the space of a Year,it's a good Idea to declutter and get rid of it..

It used to happen to me. I was a real packrat, holding onto things I didn't need and never would. I think that as we grow older we shed the chains of material things in favor of the freedom from "things". There is nothing in my house that I couldn't live without. I would love to keep the things my kids made for me and family photos but I have my memories and that's enough. Clothing and knick-knacks, decorations and such aren't important to me any longer. There is a lot of freedom in separating yourself from your material possessions. You're no longer tied down and realize that they're not important. You're free again, of worries as well as obligations. What really matters? Your clothes or your family? Your furniture or your family photos? It's a matter of priorities and maturity, I think. You are not wrong for clinging to "things" because we all go through that. But you'll eventually realize that they matter very little in your life.

Yup ! This happens even with me. I don't like to part with my favourite dresses, even my husband tells me not give few of my dresses which suit me the best. Though i don't wear, i just keep them as remembrance of certain events and occasions i have worn them in.

This has been happening to me too for a long time. I once liked to save things and didn't like to part with anything that I might use later on. However, lately I've been wanting to do the opposite and get rid of things that I feel are tying me down. Like old books and clothes and such so I plan to do just that. Now, I just want to let go of everything. I think after a while things change, attitudes, old habits, behaviors like on those TV shows I noticed people hoarding things because of past issues. They probably wanted the help to get rid of their stuff otherwise they wouldn't have said anything. You know what I mean. So, that's what I'm going to do by myself. Get rid of everything I really don't use or need right now. Sooner or later maybe this will happen with you too. Good luck.

My wife does not like to keep things and she gives away anything she doesn't like to see again. Sometimes I am surprised to see my clothes on some people that works for her and I discover she has given them away. Once, I bought a pair of shoes because I thought I would wear them when I went for a walk around the park in the mornings. My schedule being what it was, I only got to use those shoes once and I thought I would get the chance to use them for my intended regular walk the following month. I finally got the break from my schedule that I needed and when I looked for those shoes, they were nowhere to be found. She had given them away.

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I let my things go only when I am ready to let them go. To have someone else come in and dispose of my things ... not a happy scene! I am a pack rat. I will be a pack rat until such time as I am ready to stop being one. I keep things because: 1.) They are still useful. I hate the "throw-away" syndrome that seems to be so prevalent. My former boss would remodel her house from top to bottom and throw away so many household items (pictures, furniture, dishes, etc.) that were like new. She literally threw them away into the garbage. She never called any charities to pick them up. She just pitched them. I cringed at the waste whenever she told me what she had disposed of. Once I am finally able to let go of a good, useful item, I find a home for it. 2.) I have a strong, sentimental attachment to them. Whether it is an item of clothing, a picture, a trinket, a greeting card, even a piece of wrapping paper ... it carries a memory for me. I can see a certain item and I remember ... someone I love, something I enjoyed, something I did. Had I a better memory, I might not need to keep so many personal items as "memory storehouses". 3.) I see a potential use for them. For instance, cardboard boxes have such potential for storing things. And then the stored items can all be neatly stacked because they are in sturdy boxes. (Of course, I have way to many cardboard boxes because I just can't let them go!) I have lived with regret after I disposed of something that, at the time, I was not ready to let go of. And I have lived with regret after I realized I disposed of something that I will never have again ... letters from family members that I unthinkingly threw out. So I am very careful of what/when/where I move something out of my life. If I'm not ready ... it's not leaving.