Pack Rats

[jim 44-40]

Granddaughter came over to help Wife clean-up a little for the holidays.She told my wife Grandma your a hoarder. Wife replyed no I'm a pack rat.And both of them laughed.
Now today I've got my living room floor covered with bags of shotgun hulls, am I a pack rat.Yes indeed.

[MUSTANG]

I am the equivalent of a Pack of Pack Rats today. My wife is away with friends from her College Days on a Cruise ship. The Living room floor is full of Cartridge Rifle and Pistol boxes, bags and piles of Numerous Caliber Brass collected from Range Pick Ups over the last few years, and other "Saved" boxes to hold the Cartridge Boxes and Brass. Been sorting, filling cartridge boxes with brass and segmenting into larger boxes by calibers.

Yep I am a Pack Rat - but I am a Brass Wealthy Pack Rat. Oooops - better get back to sorting, repackaging as it has to be done and the entire house cleaned before her ship hits the Docks this coming Sunday.

[hc18flyer]

My wife and I are both 'pack rats' and hoarders. My mother-in-law passed away 7 years ago, her house is still half full. Somehow we need to start selling or throwing stuff out! Unfortunately, we each want to throw the others out!

[Slugster]

My two storage sheds are full and I have trails between all of the stuff in my garage I'm going to use 'someday'. I'm not a hoarder or a packrat, I'm a nuclear powered chipmunk with high capacity storage.

[blackthorn]

I am neither pack rat or hoarder, I am an individual with selective OCD/accumulator syndrome!

[super6]

I am not to big on pack ratting reloading supply's, But I can not through away glass jars, car parts that I have no clue what they go to, And any thing that I think I might I might need 100 years from now! The minute you get rid of it you WILL need it.

[Hossfly]

I built a large shop 40’X50’ to store and work on old Jeeps, its full 1 1948 cj under rebuild. Moved all reloading equip to barn tack room, now it’s full. Not a pac rat I’m a historian.

[Outer Rondacker]

The only reason these young ones get to enjoy the older stuff is because we are pack rats. Stack it deep and tall.

[popper]

Been working (3 weeks) to clean the unused misc junk out of the garage and my closet (old tax and finance stuff). If I really need it I'll go buy another. If I kept it, I'd forget where it was stored.

[Rockingkj]

I’m a pack rat and proud of it. The down side is when the wife wants a left handed foowanger she is certain I have one and new in the box to boot.. Does not believe me when I say I have never had a left handed foowanger. I had a right handed one but broke it changing the muffler bearing on on the Rodeo..

[45workhorse]

I only need an empty Kmart building to store my tras...er....treasures, I might be happy.

Super6 you are 100% right, it has happened to me more than once.

[35 Rem]

Back in 2020 Pack Rats were sitting comfortably at home while everyone else was taking off from work to drive all over looking for toilet paper. I look at it more like the old story they used to tell kids in school about the ants and grasshoppers. You can go through life with the bare minimum as if nothing will ever go wrong but if you are older than maybe 30 you should know better.

[gwpercle]

In my wallet ... Along with my "Certified Cajun Card" , " Basket of Deplorables Card " and my " NRA Membership Card" , I also carry my " Pack Rat of America Card " ... I think I became a member in 1954 when my Momma emptied out my pockets to wash my pants and found a vast collection of glass marbles , pretty rocks , steel washers , a dead frog , a flat nickle I put on the train tracks and the train ran over it ...an assortment of fired brass pistol shells , 7 - 22 shorts and one 32-20 round , two pocket knives and a broken file ... She Exclaimed ... "Lordy Have Mercy Chile ... Look at all this in your pocket's . you must belong to the Pack Rat Club ... So from that day forth ... I Been a member of the Pack Rat's !

You know what they say ... If the shoe fits...you gotta wear it !

Gary

[contender1]

I guess I can admit to being part of this eclectic group. I too keep & store a lot of stuff,, that has value (to me) and for the "just in case" work,, and "Don't throw that away,, I can recycle it somehow."

My Dad lived through the Great Depression. He would straighten old nails to re-use. He didn't believe in waste. He would keep a lot of stuff he might need,, or whatever.

But my two boys,, they keep telling me; "When you die,, we are gonna get a large dumpster, and just fill it up!"

I'm gonna have the last laugh. I'm gonna leave a big note,, in my will paperwork. It will say; "In all my odds & ends stuff,, I have hidden $100 bills all over. If you don't look,, you will throw out well over $10,000.00.

[Finster101]

I R one

[1I-Jack]

Pack rat...you've acquired enough stuff that you needed to rent a storage unit to "temporarily" store stuff you know you want to make room for it in your house by getting rid of stuff you decide you want less than the stuff in storage.

[firefly1957]

I am "saving" a lot less today then in the past I even gave away a gallon bag of 30-06 and .223 brass I picked up at the range last month . But I did save every .350 Legend case and they will be trimmed for use in the great grandfather gun a Winchester Model 1907 I should shoot more!


Note if you have one of these great old guns make sure you take it apart and check the buffer I did mine during covid and Buffers were as dried up in supply as mine was in my 1916 gun! I am still using one made from the face of a rubber hammer it has a 8 mm 5/16" hole in the center of a 16 mm (very slightly over 5/8") and I made it a bit longer at .4 inch then the originals . So far so good with the material .

[ascast]

A good friend on mine bought an old farm with 4 barns/sheds. Two fell down so he built new to replace. Both are much bigger. One holds 6 to eight cars. It has one tractor he can't keep running. He wants it gone. Too much clutter he says? One Farmall C, a milk crate of hippie records from the sixties, a couple random oil cans. 60' x 22' ! I wish people would stop using the term "hoarder" .
On the other side, my parents lived during the great depression. I inherited a lot of those traits/habits. I wont start that list...

[lightman]

I guess I'm one too! And I'm finding out that my late Wife was one too! I pity my Boys when I'm gone!

[Texas by God]

After dealing with a couple of estates, I use the Five Year rule;
If I haven’t used it, seen it, or thought about it in five years- it’s gone!


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[lightman]

After dealing with a couple of estates, I use the Five Year rule;
If I haven’t used it, seen it, or thought about it in five years- it’s gone!


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Thats not a bad rule to live by. I sort of used that rule when we mover 1-1/2 years ago.

[CastingFool]

My grandkids are going to have some fun looking through my stuff after I'm gone. Hopefully, they will smile when they're going through it.