I'm weird! I want to save it, fix it , reuse it............

I always try to fix things but if I cant it goes inthe trash! and empty boxes are the first to go only ones we save is for printer and puter incase they have to taken back. Havee to go thru old bills and get them gone no used to keeping them if paid!

I completely relate to this. Hubby and I were watching hoarders the other day and we got to discussing some things in relation to that. It's really human nature to hoard. You want a safe place at home with everything you need. So, of course, you consider keeping some things you feel may later become handy! Right now we, too, have many boxes in our living room that we've kept for later usage. We figure they're very good boxes and we plan to do some eBay selling soon so they may come in handy. Otherwise, if we were to move or something then we would have plenty of storage without having to scrounge out places that have available boxes (we had to do that previously). There isn't anything wrong with keeping something that can be used, in my opinion. We were watching the hoarders and the only issue we had with most of the homes were the old foods, expired and rotted. THAT is not human nature, in my opinion, but hoarding a bunch of, say, tools even though you don't currently use them but they may become handy some time in the distant future? Nothing wrong with that.

Yes, but sometimes you're in a mood where you show great distane for that and sometimes you are acting like it's great so I never know what you're feeling when.

hi celticeagle you arenot weird and saving boxes is a great idea I keeo old favorite books and a lot of the stuff you mentioned as some older things are much better made than the new stuff so why throw it away. I do not hoard, bui I do keep things that have a real use again. I have tossed a lot of things that I later really could have used. I am like your mom I grew up during the height of the depression so I am also a saver, but never a hoarder.

i am like you. but all the things that i want to save, want to fix that i might use it the future are all kept in my mothers house. well that is our house. i still have my own room there. i am living now in an apartment with my wife and four year old son. unfortunately last year a great flood hit our city and the house of my mother was flooded up to the roof. all of the things that i want to use, want to fix and want to reuse are no longer around. well i still have my empty box and still be doing that again. weird? i dont think so.

No, you are not being weird or silly. You are being frugal. There is nothing wrong in saving a few empty boxes. You should have seen the bill I got from the packers for the cartons when I moved to a new city last time! They cost me more than my ticket there! As people grow they learn the value of money and will not let go of the smallest thing unless of course it becomes a liability. That is natural and very useful too! There may be occasions where you thought somethings were useless and discarded them, and then you had a real need for them and had to spend a fortune to get them. BTW I actually hoard coin money. When I was young, being from a large family, I never had enough money to actually clink in my pockets. I now have enough and more. So whenever I am nostalgic/sad, I put a fistful in my pocket and go for a brisk walk. The jingle of the loose change and the walk is really rejuvenating for me. So stock up and be happy!