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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're saying you use every single thing you possess? You don't have a junk drawer? Never inherited something you feel weird about giving away/getting rid of? 
I'm pretty quick to get rid of things I don't use/need, myself, but still... there's many things in my possession that would probably take more effort to rid of than to ignore for a while longer. No one's that ascetic. |
I may not use them right now, but I either did in the past or plan to in the future--I wouldn't have the things otherwise, and I absolutely wouldn't have deliberately acquired them. Catlady seemed to be saying that she has large quantities ("thousands") of e-books that she never intends to read. After my comment, however, she did clarify her statement to say
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Because I feel I should read them, and at the time I acquired them, I thought would read them. When I got my e-reader, I purged a lot of those sorts of paper books and replaced them with digital files. There's no real reason not to continue to keep those files.
In general I keep things because I might need/want them someday.
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So that seems to be saying that she may want to read them someday, even though she had originally said that they are ones that she was "happy to leave unread".
So I guess never mind my question?
Shari