Things you don't throw out.

I find it very difficult to get rid of clothes and it can take me years but once I decide, it goes only for me to want to wear it a couple of weeks later

I too have loads of plastic containers drives OH bonkers as they invariably slide out if he opens the door.
Also have a collection of those rubber measure thingys out of the liquid detergent bottles they are good for nothing but I save them for the pretty colours .

I also have a collection of plastic takeaway containers. They are really useful, especially when I have cooked chilis, bolognese etc and there are two/ three meals worth. But, in a kitchen drawer I have still got the piece of coal and some salt in a paper screw, that Mum gave us when we moved into our first home together. (Emerald anniversary was this Sept) It was an old fashioned token and something to do with never being cold or hungry? Perhaps someone remembers these things.

The lids to pyrex dishes that were a wedding present coming up to fifty years ago. Their dishes are long gone. Still got some of the dishes though, but never use the matching lid.

Mugs which I received as gifts over the years , never use them but they were gifts

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39 weird things that are found in every British home

My favourite is the fancy carrier bags that are too nice to throw away

The only one I've got of those is the grandchildren's heights on the wall.
And a set of allen keys, but they get used, so they are not weird.

I actually got rid of mmy boxful of dead batteries yesterday - there's a collection point in our local Tesco. And I had a purge of the old instruction manuals a while ago...

Janeainsworth I don't have a Sports Direct mug!

When we moved, I threw away a large bin liner full of plastic containers. So how come I seem to have accumulated the equivalent of another bin liner full which are filling up my cupboards? We just can't bring ourselves to throw away anything that might prove to be remotely useful - or not! My GS is now 10 and has lost interest in junk modelling, but I still keep "junk", overflowing in the garage, just in case he wants to build another Temple of Doom for his action men (which he has also lost interest in). We now only build Temples of Doom on Minecraft! I have a dustbin full of plastic plant pots that have not seen the light of day for at least three years - but I might need them next season.....

Various silver plated items of little value and which none of my family will ever want to take when I'm gone! Lots of cat ornaments which people used to give me when I was officially a 'cat person'. Real cats are long gone but it might offend friends and relatives if I gave away the wooden and pottery cats. Any number of jute shopping bags which 'might come in useful' ..... or not.

I'm feeling almost virtuous until I look at my collection of things which have been sent with flowers in them. There are very pretty baskets or vases but I will never ever arrange a bunch of flowers other than sticking them in a vase and giving the vase a shake.

Oooooo Jingle, can I have your lids?, I have dishes without lids and unfortunately my hubby has inherited the 'clatter gene' from his Dad and broken (well chipped) all ours! (You should hear him in the kitchen and filling the dishwasher (his job, I'm not allowed) the sounds that eminate from there are unbelievable, bang, clatter, crash, wallop, it makes me cringe and breaking pyrex is his forte!

That's funny Janeainsworth. I have about 50% of those things, better go have a clear out right now

I have 6 of those items in that link!, that is because I chuck stuff out, but I now have several various storage boxes and containers that are surplus to requirements - it is very liberating to get rid of clutter.

I've got most of them too, Janeainsworth.
I gave the garage a good clean out recently and threw out things that I now need.
I threw out a large container of empty compost bags. Today I have been digging the clay out of a waterlogged area and wish I had those bl..... bags so that I can dispose of the clay more easily.

Only 6 items that I don't have!
As well as used batteries I have a drawer full of unused ones of most types known to man, but most of them are so old that they have lost all power. I have a battery tester so must go through them.

I never throw away keys. I've lots of keys here and there in the house. It's just I can't remember what they are/were for.I might throw one away which I might need, doubt it though.

I'm afraid I'm a hoarder. I cannot bear to part with things inherited from loved ones. Ornaments, no longer fashionable, that my late father went to the china shop and chose for me, mostly Border Fine Arts which he loved. Items I bought for my late mother which she took such pride in and other things which belonged to my late eldest sister who emigrated to the USA when she was 21 and I was 11. I can still hear her tell me about each of them. Every time I look at or dust these objects it brings back memories. I kept my son's toys and it is giving me joy to now see his son playing with them.

I also have a wardrobe full of clothes that I really need to sort through and donate or sell on as I don't often go to the sort of occasion where I'd wear them. But you never know....

The world is divided into those who chuck and those who hoard – and never the twain shall meet. Mrabsent wanted to include umpteen metres of mini-trunking in the container of furniture when we were moving across the world. I, on the other hand, parted with 2,000 paperback novels to a charity shop (some of them first paperback Penguins) before we packed.

We were just talking about this to BIL & SIL yesterday - we have so much 'stuff' that we need to get rid of - cupboards full of cd's and dvd's we never use, boxes of parent's things too - ornaments my mother loved but I don't yet cant bring myself to get rid of, my dad's tools that are from the dark ages, silverware from my in-laws that is black and tarnished, things we packed away years ago as unwanted and still in the garage. With the house up for sale we were going to de-clutter but now thinking of staying put and I guess the 'junk' will also stay put! I do tend to get rid of clothing that I've not worn or doesn't fit any more - our local vet collects for the Blue Cross so I take it down there.

If in doubt Chuck it out.......recycle.or sent to.charity bins first of.course. hate clutter,

Anything that crosses the threshold of my workshop will not get thrown out, ever !