[LiteraryLark]

My first place to ask this was Yahoo Answers, but this question is too complicated to ask there and I know I would just get stupid "idk, whatever, trololol" answers. So I'm going to try here and hopefully get some helpful answers. So here's my dilemma...

I'm moving out soon and I have very limited space. I'm trying to think of things I want to keep and things I need to leave behind, but not sure where to put them.

There are certain sentimental things I have to keep: My two sentimental stuffed animals, a senitmental porcelin doll, my goosebump books, some CD's, and my Steve Irwin autograph. I don't know where I would put them, but they must come with me when I move.

In my room I have an entire wall of autographs, a Twilight poster, a Rocky Horror Poster, an Alice in Wonderland poster, two Eminem posters, a huge Johnny Depp shrine, a giant Mix 104.9 banner, and several stuffed animals of varying importance. I have no idea what to do with them.

I will most likely be sharing one bedroom with my best friend, but I am going to try to convince her to find the money for a two-bedroom apartment. I guess if we got a two bedroom I can bring all my posters and what not and just put it in my new room. But when I think of moving out I think of being more adult-like since adults move out on their own, and I don't see most adults having Twilight posters and Johnny Depp shrines in their houses. If I have to share a bedroom, I don't see her agreeing on keeping my johnny depp posters or my autographs. I don't think we could split up one wall being mine and one wall being hers because all my stuff takes up the whole room. I don't know about putting my johnny depp posters outside of my bedroom because I'm sharing an apartment and I have to decide what works out for both of us.

What should I do with my stuff? I'm not sure where to put them. =/

[Winter Moon]

If they're really important to you, and if you really like them, you should definitely keep them. (unless you start hoarding, but this doesn't sound like hoarding) You can always split up the halves of the room and put your favorite/most important things up, then put the rest in storage. Or put it all in storage and take it back out when you have a room of your own.

[Trippin2.0]

Doesn't sound like you're ready to let go of your stuff yet, so don't. See for me, I just knew it was time to clear my walls, Johnny Depp is brilliant, but a shrine just wasn't appropriate anymore... I can understand why you wouldn't want your tween stuff in your adult space, I wouldn't want it there either. It would feel like too much of a contradiction to me.

[LiteraryLark]

Well, there's one REALLY nice picture of him I framed that's pretty mature, let's see if I can find it:


My parents had posters of the Blues Brother's when we lived in an apartment, and they had a Star Trek collection and a bunch of autographs on the walls, so I could just pick my favorite ones and take them with me.

[Miss Laura]

When I moved out of the family home for the 1st time I found it really hard to say good bye to things. However I popped all my stuffed animals in a black bag and popped them up in my parents loft. I also put stuff that I wanted to keep into storage. It was pretty cheap. Now that I am back living with them I have them all back lol!

[Trippin2.0]

Originally Posted by DrSkipper

Well, there's one REALLY nice picture of him I framed that's pretty mature, let's see if I can find it:


My parents had posters of the Blues Brother's when we lived in an apartment, and they had a Star Trek collection and a bunch of autographs on the walls, so I could just pick my favorite ones and take them with me.

Very nice mature pic indeed, and IMO, frames make ALOT of difference.

[LiteraryLark]

My Rocky Horror pic is framed too, and my roommate and I are both huge fans, so we're keeping that one too

[Fresia]

For the things you are not going to have out and not quite sure if you are ready to part with yet, a friend suggested getting a chest or nice box to put the other things in as a keepsake/memento/treasure chest until either I knew I did not want them or to look at them once in awhile for the memories. Perhaps this is something you might be able to do with the rest.

Do what you want to do with your space, don't be afraid to do you. If you want to keep them put them in a tub. I have a tub for each of my children and as they grew I put stuff in their tubs, favorite toys, shirts, posters,books etc... Be kind to yoursel, if it is no longer you,but it was once a part of you , you may want to reflect on someday. Beat to your own drum, life is your movie and you get to write the soundtrack as well as the script!

Originally Posted by Fresia

For the things you are not going to have out and not quite sure if you are ready to part with yet, a friend suggested getting a chest or nice box to put the other things in as a keepsake/memento/treasure chest until either I knew I did not want them or to look at them once in awhile for the memories. Perhaps this is something you might be able to do with the rest.

Sorry I didn't read your post first, great minds think alike.

[Perna]

I would first narrow everything down, kind of like they use to do on the Clean Sweep http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/cl...leansweep.html TV show; I remember one woman having and wanting to keep a zillion pairs of shoes so she had to choose only one out of every five or ten pairs (arranged so the "like" pairs were together) and another similar situation where the person had to do a "toss" game and got to keep the ones she tossed the rock or whatever into it's box from X feet :-)

If you could save one of each item to remind you, that might not be too much. I've recently drastically gone through all my family heirlooms; my brothers and/or their children don't want them so I decided to sell a bunch of stuff. Another friend without a job recently sold a lot of his Star Trek stuff he'd bought/saved from an earlier time and made a bit of money.

[LiteraryLark]

Originally Posted by Perna

. Another friend without a job recently sold a lot of his Star Trek stuff he'd bought/saved from an earlier time and made a bit of money.

hehe my parents have Star Trek memorabilia (sp?) that they want me to sell on ebay.

Well, I'll still have to ask my brother what to do with my eminem posters, I kinda outgrew them, but I don't want to hurt his feelings because they were Christmas presents.

Breaking dawn, Alice in Wonderland, and Pirates of the Carribean posters could all go to ebay.

Hmmm not sure how to part with my johnny depp shrine...I will at least keep it and save it for later until I can figure out what to do with it.

I'm starting to get a pretty good idea of what to keep and what to toss.

I think clothes are going to be a little trickier, because my best friend and i want to share clothes and give the rest to Goodwill or Plato's closet.

Thanks for all of the wonderful advice!

[LiteraryLark]

A little something funny for my Johnny Depp lovers hehehe

[lizardlady]

Dr. Skipper, what about storing the stuff you're not sure about at your parents' for awhile?

[LiteraryLark]

I'll have to ask them, but I know I have a whole storage bin/time capsule of my high school memories that I want to keep there. That could be a good solution.

[Tenrou]

I think there's a certain grey area between when you think you should be an adult and when you start feeling comfortable acting as you think adults do. Over the last five years, every year I've cleaned out a bit of my old sentimental stuff, but there are a lot of things I'm not ready to toss yet. I keep them in boxes or bins, out of sight but I know where they are if ever I want to peruse them. Maybe I'll keep it all forever; maybe most of it will end up in the trash over the net ten years. The main thing I'm finding, as I grow up, is that mentally, emotionally, it's a very gradual process.