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  • [A Domics animation]

  • I am somewhat of a hoarder.

  • I don't even like pronouncing that word:

  • Hoarder...HoOoOOrRrrRrRDoOoOOORrrrrr...xd

  • And while it may not be to the extent of the people on the show "Hoarders,"

  • it still poses a problem for my storage space.

  • It may have stemmed from my upbringing of making sure not to waste anything.

  • Why?

  • Because you've saved money that way.

  • Mmhm.

  • Yeah, genius.

  • My parents always told me to finish my food.

  • If there was one or two pieces left of that longanisa,

  • "Someone better be finishing that either now or tomorrow when you pack it for lunch when you go to school.

  • I don't care if the kids make fun of you just 'cause you're not eating some lame-ass lunchables."

  • And that was the mindset I grew up with:

  • if you have something you don't need at the moment,

  • you'll probably need it later.

  • Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

  • I used to have a bunch of plushies that I've accumulated throughout my childhood

  • I had them all on display on my headboard shelf

  • But once I hit university I thought,

  • "Maybe it's time to retire these"

  • Except this one... I like this one

  • But I also thought, "These hold a special place in my heart"

  • "Maybe I'll save them until I get married and have kids and then I'll just give it to them!"

  • Therefore I'll save money by not having to buy new toys,

  • and assume that my unpredictable kids want my old ones.

  • Maybe one or two years pass and I find out my parents donated them without my acknowledgment.

  • I was a *little* sad,

  • but then I remembered that a lot of them were gifts from exes, so...

  • I got over it eventually.

  • Ok hold on, question for you guys:

  • Do you keep gifts from exes?

  • I know a lot of people like to purge everything they owned that reminded them of a preceding partner,

  • but I found myself keeping a lot of the things I got,

  • more so if they were functional.

  • But even if they were aesthetic like a ring or a bracelet,

  • I kept them too.

  • I didn't keep them to honor the gifter,

  • but simply because I thought it looked nice on me.

  • Is...is that weird?

  • Some people find that weird, but here is my opinion:

  • if you gave me something,

  • you've relinquished your ownership

  • and have transfered it to me.

  • It is now my possession.

  • And whether or not it means something deeper or more sentimental, is up to me alone

  • and no one else.

  • There was one time I got out of a relationship

  • of which I obtained a certain accessory.

  • I eventually met another girl whom I was getting to know

  • And during that time I've already moved on from my ex.

  • Like one hUNDEHRED PURR-SCENT.

  • Anyway, I often wore this Tungsten ring that was given to me by the aforementioned ex.

  • And the girl brought it up and asked where I got it.

  • Before I answered I already predicted the kind of response I would get.

  • So I tried to explain how it didn't mean anything and I just simply liked the ring.

  • Well she proceeded to deny my claim and tried to convince me I still had underlying feelings for my ex.

  • Bitch. You. Don't. Know. Me!

  • She was very upset.

  • And I understood why she would assume that and I was willing to stop wearing the ring if I knew it upset her,

  • but she just wouldn't trust my feelings

  • I didn't know how else to convince her otherwise.

  • Partially bad move of my end, I admit,

  • but the ring was technically mine, I just happened to obtain it from an ex

  • If she'd prefer I'd wear something that honored her, then she was welcome to get me something.

  • For me sentiment overrides aesthetic.

  • We weren't exactly dating but if a new partner got me a new ring

  • even if they didn't get the right size,

  • I'll still wear it over the old one

  • Anyway back to hoarding,

  • I'd say it was much worse when I was younger.

  • I used to find random crap on the ground that I thought could be purposed for something else.

  • I may not know that purpose at the moment, but I believed I would later

  • Do you guys remember...

  • Beyblades?

  • I mean they're still around, but when they were the new fad at every school

  • I used to find little metal pieces on the floor

  • *because I looked at the ground a lot when I walked around as a kid*

  • but I would always try and modify my Beyblades with these pieces

  • Granted, they may have made my tops a little more dangerous than they already were,

  • but I had a lot of fun customizing it with the trash that I found,

  • which I turned into my treasure.

  • But even after the Beyblade hype I still kept all those metal pieces in a box...

  • ...that's probably still somewhere in my parent's basement.

  • The same goes for cosplay,

  • which is odd for me, because I don't even cosplay that often.

  • But I'd find random things where I think:

  • "Hmm this might be useful for a future cosplay >;)"

  • For example my sister would walk into my room and would be like,

  • "Hey I found Velcro, do you need Velcro?"

  • And I'd be like, "No not at the moment, but I'll take it."

  • But the thing is, by the time I did need that Velcro *years* later,

  • I've already misplaced it--

  • and I would have to dig through boxes and bags of other hoarded objects

  • And if I needed that Velcro in a rush, I'd probably just buy new Velcro.

  • And then I'm just left with that lone-wolf Velcro that's somewhere in the house,

  • probably met up with the Beyblade pieces and became friends, because they had a common abandon-er

  • *Sigh*

  • ♪ I've got T-shirts and posters a-plenty

  • ♪ I've got headphones and coupons galore

  • You want charging cables that don't work anymore? ♪

  • ♪ I've got twenty

  • But who cares? ♪

  • No big deal

  • ♪ I want MOREEEEEEE

  • But I probably shouldn't, because my condo has limited space

  • The way I got around this was simple:

  • clean up every now and then.

  • "Oh my goodness Dom, you're a freaking genius"

  • "We're in 2017 while you in 3017"

  • I tend to keep a lot of the original boxing or packaging of products I bought,

  • thinking I might sell them on Craigslist someday

  • but really I know I'd be too lazy to do that, so I should just recycle them.

  • If there are clothes at the end of the closet or at the bottom of the pile in my drawers that I haven't worn in a year,

  • then it was probably time to retire them.

  • Donate them, something, just give them up.

  • I know it sounds easy on paper, but personally

  • if I don't use an item on a regular basis, then it's probably better that someone else does.

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  • I saw it on the front page and noticed that it involved video games,

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禁物 (Hoarding)

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    robert に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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