I've been known to have a fair bit of clutter. There are three reasons I keep things: sentiment, potential usefulness, and laziness.
Sentiment: I have a variety of things that may not be particularly useful that evoke memories for me. For instance a scrap of paper or a plastic trinket. If I got rid of these items I would lose easy access to these memories. I have relegated most of these items to boxes that I rarely look through. Though I occasionally go through them to see if there's anything I want to purge, or just for fun. I enjoy having old memories evoked when I do this.
Potential usefulness: If I think that some day something that I have no obvious use for might come in handy, I like to keep it. Though I do occasionally drop things off at goodwill just to get rid of them. At least someone else can potentially find a use for them.
Laziness: As the months and years go by, crap just starts accumulating. Eventually it bugs me enough that I go through a purge phase and spend a week or two going through everything and throw out things, put things in boxes, and generally clean and organize.
So, yeah. My two cents.
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