#62

^100% this.

I can’t ever see us getting rid of our CDs and DVDs.

#63

It’s an improvement over the days when you used to go around to friends’ houses and they’d have walls full of Star Trek VHS box sets. At least DVDs are thinner. But DVDs are worse than books for this, because you feel the need to keep them in your main living area, whereas at least a bookshelf can go in the loft or spare room.

Really should bin off some DVDs to the chazza.

#64

Haha. My girlfriend is the same.

We put in a whole wall of shelving in the living room, for CDs, records and books, but my girlfriend was adamant that no DVDs should go in there as it would make it look like we were nerds, apparently.

#65

that’s actually a much nicer motivation for getting rid of things than a weird obsession with minimalism which I had assumed was behind it (and it probably marks me out as selfish and ‘materialistic’ that that didn’t even occur to me a reason!). In fact, I can almost approve

#66

All my CDs went when we moved in 2014. I only ever listen to Spotify / Podcats now so it wasn’t worth it. Unfortunately my husband has since picked up a vinyl addiction which is rapidly replacing the space we acquired when getting rid of the CDs. Don’t do this.

#67

i’ve got in the habit of paying for downloads rather than buying CD’s this year (also illegal download some stuff but always done that). still think it’s worthwhile buying them sometimes but will probably hold on until i live in a proper place.
books are the easiest thing to accumulate cos they’re so cheap and readily available 2nd hand, again nice to keep ones that i really like but no point stockpiling stuff that i only bought on a whim in the first place

#68

Nah, people are way, way too precious about books. Literature is amazing, books themselves are worthless vessels. Chuck them with impunity, they’re very rarely anything other than utterly disposable.

#69

The orderliness of this is quite calming

#70

We have to keep ‘stuff’ to a minimum because we have so little storage space in our house (a little bit of eaves storage above the eldest’s bedroom, a couple of under-stairs cupboards and that’s it).

Typically:

  • mine and Mrs CCB’s old clothes go to charity shops
  • the girls’ old clothes go to nieces / family friends etc
  • old toys / bric-a-brac etc either go to charity shops or to friends.

One thing I’ve never been arsed with: eBaying or car-booting old clothes and things. I’m sure there’s an appeal but it’s not for me.

#71

that’s fair enough - I keep most of my DVDs out of sight in a chest thing, and limit purchases to cast iron classics only

Moving DVDs to one of those big wallet things would be ok - and ditch all the boxes

#72

I just hide it all in the garage.

#73

Oh yeah, and I slimmed down my CD collection by about 100 CDs last year. I think I got about £50 for it.

#74

That’s what I did.

I took all of our DVDs out of their cases, put the discs in a wallet book thing from Muji, and the cases went in the recycling.

Then I realised we no longer have a means to play them after selling the PS3, so ripped them all then binned them too.

It actually gets quite addictive.

#75

We had a mini clear out at the weekend - books, clothes and dvds mostly. All went to the charity shop. Thing is, we had a similar clear out about 6 months ago and we haven’t bought much in between - I think we just decided we could actually do without the things we didn’t want to part with last time. Also, moving in a couple of weeks so we’ve decided to be ruthless.

#76

I’ve moved in a back of a Corsa a bunch of times, so have traditionally not had much “stuff”.

I should be (fingers crossed) emigrating next year, which ups the stakes a bit. I’ve also lived in my current place for a couple of years, so I think I’ve acculumated a lot of things in that time.

Gotta decide what I’m doing with music, DVDs, books. Guitars are gonna be a big thing. Probably give my acoustic away, dunno about the electronic ones with the gizmos.

#77

There are very few physical objects I like more than books, probably none. When I’m in a sensible mood I understand your point of view! But I probably think the same kinds of dubious things about books as some people do about vinyl - that the ’ experience’ is different, that they have a history and all that…“analogue warmth”!
(having said that, as far as collecting goes, book collecting is in my opinion a perfectly acceptable pathology)

#78

I am terrible for this. I like ‘stuff’. Not for the sake of it, but music/books etc. are passions of mine and I like to hold them/own them.

Because I am 41, I started buying vinyl and so own about 5,000 records. Too many clothes that were impulse buys as well. Even though I quite like clothes. I’ve got a lot better recently to be fair. It’s just now a backlog as I work through giving stuff to charity. Books I am happy to give away, but I have some first /signed editions of ones I love that take up room as well.

I had a bit of a eye-opener recently as my mum died suddenly and going through her stuff I found clothes that were new and unworn. So this impulse buy gene is in me.

#79

Having a clear out at this very moment as we’re (hopefully) moving to a new flat soon, just waiting for the last mortgage gubbins to go through. Three massive bin bags of charity shop stuff up to now even though we’ve been pretty conservative with stuff we’re getting rid of. I think I was vaccinated against having loads of stuff by seeing how much crap my mum hoarded and how useless most of it was, especially the clothes from the 80s that she had to keep in my wardrobe as she’d run out of room in hers and the one in the spare room.

I was having a chat with someone a lot older (50s? 60s?) who I know through work recently and she mentioned that she collected furniture, Who the fuck has the money to collect furniture??

#80

I put things I don’t need into boxes in the garage - eventually the damp ruins them and I can throw them out.

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#81

My mum loves to get cheap second hand furniture off ebay and later get rid of it again. It’s her hobby. It’s a crap hobby, but she loves an ebay bargain.

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