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I say it ALL.THE.TIME that we will end up on that show someday because of my husband. The man REFUSES to throw anything out. He claims to be saving it all for a big yard sale which has never happened! It makes me crazy. Our third bedroom (which will eventually be the nursery) is FULL of his crap. I'm not pregnant yet but he already knows that once I am he has until I'm 12 weeks to sell or throw out everything in there!

We have a pact since getting married to nip clutter in the bud. We definitely have tendencies so we call each other on it with no defensiveness and we encourage each other by saying, That's hoarding!

For me, I mostly hoard clothes. I even try to get him to save his clothes. He puts it in our monthly donation pile and I have been known to dig out t-shirts.. What? You only had this for a year!? What do you mean you don't fit into it anymore? My dad gave you that!!

I think it's so much harder when you have babies/kids that outgrow things so fast, and you try to buy things on sale in advance. I've learned to self-talk myself into giving things away and considering it a major accomplishment. It's a continual process!

No, I love to throw things away or get rid of them. I can't stand clutter. My hubs has more clutter but I have rubbed off on him throughout the years and he doesn't keep so many things anymore.

@Rosie Girl: Are you in my head?! Holy crap. That is exactly my FI. He has a crap-ton of random car things. He might have sold one of his small-block Chevy engines today though. Whoohoo! haha. We're eventually going to build him a garage in the back, but for now he's cluttering up our attached garage and driving me nuts! And it's not even *that* bad because a lot of it is still at his Dad's house. *le sigh*

Seriously. My husband cannot throw things away. Our spare room (and future nursery) is full of junk. He has way more clothes than I do. We're working on it, but he has a hard time letting go of things. I'm sure it's to do with losing his family, so I get it but it still drives me crazy. I'm nearly 26 weeks and would love to feel like the room will eventually be ready for our baby!
I actually had to turn it into a joke about sending some of the things away "to a nice farm in the country where there's lots of room to play" in order to make him less anxious about it.

My husband jokes that the first time he entered my apartment it looked like a museum. I am a minimalist for sure and DH holds onto things for their sentimental value.

I have a hard time throwing things away, and he's the one who'll throw things away that we actually really should have kept. He'd make a good minimalist!

@AmeliaBedelia: HA! There is a bunch of our stuff at DH's father's too! We have it in the attic, crawl space, under our bed, in the garage, and alongside the house. Its horrible! We have had a cab to a '71 Chevy sitting in our garage for over a year. I don't even get to park in there!

@808love: I love those "someday" projects! Ha NOT!!!

I have a hard time throwing away magazines!

hubs and i are the complete opposite. we like to throw things away. we're minimalists.

@AmeliaBedelia: Thats what I say too!!!! I don't know what to do about it!

I LOVE do throw things away but I still have ALL of my binders/papers/lab reports, etc. from university. I think I feel that I pulled too many all-nighters to throw them all away. They are, however, taking up a lot of space.

haha. I responded to the "old crappy stuff" thread but I'll say it again here... I force Rob Sr. to watch Hoarders with me so he gets into the mindset of throwing things away or giving them to charity. This is definitely something I have changed about him. He used to be the biggest packrat and his college roommates joked that they never saw the color of his carpet until I came to visit. Now he's the opposite! That is, if I keep the Hoarders viewing consistent

@mrbee: Yay, good for you!

I like to keep things, but frequent moves have weeded a lot of those tendencies out. I don't like to hoard new things, but we're still in the process of getting rid of old stuff! Lots better, but still not perfect.

@mrbee: Good job!

DH and I joke that he is a hoarder but in reality he doesn't mind clutter and really isn't a hoarder but I'm completely anal about not leaving things lying around or holding on to stuff we don't use.

I don't think DH is a hoarder, I think he just has a MUCH higher threshold for clutter and mess. I'm pretty sure there are 8 or 9 empty water bottles on his night stand right now. He's not 'keeping' them, they just don't bother him enough to get rid of them yet.