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My mom was right about the one-year rule for clothes
She told me if I haven't worn something in a year I should just donate it. I kept a bunch of old band tees from college thinking they'd come back in style or whatever. Got 3 trash bags full out of my closet last weekend and honestly I don't miss a single thing. Has anyone else held onto stuff way too long just because of nostalgia?
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lee8475d ago
Man it's like we hoard THINGS but not the actual memories.
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william_harris4d ago
Maybe, but doesn't every little souvenir or ticket stub bring back a memory when you find it years later? That's kind of the whole point of holding onto stuff - it's a shortcut to remembering. Sure, nobody remembers every single vacation detail, but that beat up keychain from Myrtle Beach 2008 still makes you think of that weird mini golf place. People act like it's some huge tragedy that we don't have perfect recall of every moment. Life moves fast, junk sticks around, and sometimes that's good enough.
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vera_lewis24d ago
Oh, does that mini golf memory come with the actual feeling of being there, or just the fact that you went? I had a friend who kept every movie ticket from high school, thought it was this big time capsule thing. Found a box of them years later and she couldn't even remember who she went with to half of them, just that she wore a certain jacket or something. It's like the junk holds the fact of the event but not the real flavor of it, you know? Maybe that's why people end up with boxes of stuff that just sits there, because the memory is too big for the object to carry anymore.
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