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I was inspired to start this when someone in another thread posted about hanging on to things you normally wouldn't just because it's MLP. My brain started firing off the many different things (MLP and non-MLP) I tend to keep with the intention of doing something with at some point. I think many of us do this to varying degrees and as obvious collectors of things we might have some natural magpie tendencies.
It can be so easy to blur the line of collecting and just having a bunch of stuff, especially when you collect multiple things. Do you ever get to a point where you're asking yourself, "do I really collect this" with true intent and purpose? or do I just happen to have acquired some of these things and casually like them? Maybe there will be someone else here who would truly love and use them more?
Then there are the things we "collect" to use at some point. We either have ideas for projects and crafts that some of us (like me) hope to some day get around to or we just hang on to things not with a specific idea in mind but because we might need it one day. For example, I will keep cute paper items for potential scrapbooking and my husband will keep random wires/cables/screws and miscellanea cause one day the toaster might break. At what point is this useful and realistic versus just wasting space and being clutter?
So I thought this would be a fun and maybe helpful thread to air out our dirty secrets and maybe get some ideas and motivation. We can share ideas for organizing the things we do decide to collect/keep, motivate each other and share progress. Do you have something you've amassed and you wanna get some ideas on if you should continue to hang on to it? Do you have something you really like and would like to craft something with but could use some motivation and/or ideas on what to do? Feel free to post it here and share pictures! Think of it like a challenge, what have you got versus what we can come up with to do with it and then let that motivate you to take action!
It can be anything, from collectibles you're not sure you should collect, to random things you just hang on to, to even having too many clothes. Whatever you think you could use help with. We can share our own hoard-shames and get advice on if we should Collect? Craft? or Recycle? it!
and hey, it's Earth Day! A great time to start thinking about taking control of clutter, recycling, reducing and renewing our space, life and planet
It can be so easy to blur the line of collecting and just having a bunch of stuff, especially when you collect multiple things. Do you ever get to a point where you're asking yourself, "do I really collect this" with true intent and purpose? or do I just happen to have acquired some of these things and casually like them? Maybe there will be someone else here who would truly love and use them more?
Then there are the things we "collect" to use at some point. We either have ideas for projects and crafts that some of us (like me) hope to some day get around to or we just hang on to things not with a specific idea in mind but because we might need it one day. For example, I will keep cute paper items for potential scrapbooking and my husband will keep random wires/cables/screws and miscellanea cause one day the toaster might break. At what point is this useful and realistic versus just wasting space and being clutter?
So I thought this would be a fun and maybe helpful thread to air out our dirty secrets and maybe get some ideas and motivation. We can share ideas for organizing the things we do decide to collect/keep, motivate each other and share progress. Do you have something you've amassed and you wanna get some ideas on if you should continue to hang on to it? Do you have something you really like and would like to craft something with but could use some motivation and/or ideas on what to do? Feel free to post it here and share pictures! Think of it like a challenge, what have you got versus what we can come up with to do with it and then let that motivate you to take action!
It can be anything, from collectibles you're not sure you should collect, to random things you just hang on to, to even having too many clothes. Whatever you think you could use help with. We can share our own hoard-shames and get advice on if we should Collect? Craft? or Recycle? it!
and hey, it's Earth Day! A great time to start thinking about taking control of clutter, recycling, reducing and renewing our space, life and planet