Emotional/psychological attachment to objects/belongings

I was wondering today if this is an autistic thing.

I've spent several decades collecting objects and the last decade+ trying to rid myself of the majority.

However, I have given up on the idea of ever being minimalist.

I notice that I remember where everything came from, even, when purchased, which shop in which town.

I try not to be sentimental about things, but sometimes I can't help it.

My mother, who I believe was autistic, was a hoarder in quite an extreme sense.

My autistic friend finds it very hard to part with belongings.

Everything has an association.

Are others like this and are there contributors here who are genuinely minimalistic and don't have an attachment to things?

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  • I like that these old threads from before my time are being bumped.

    I have got less like this over the years, but I really had it strongly to start off with.

    I would keep travel ticket stubs, flyers, museum programmes and all sorts of holiday reminders. You would be surprised how much space these paper things take up. They are stored in year numbered envelopes under the bed (It's funny how I have just realised another obvious example of my autism that I have never thought of before - thanks  Joy) I stopped collecting these in such an obsessive way in the past few years, but can't face throwing away what I have.

    To spin this in a positive way, on me and my wife's tenth anniversary of getting together, I actually made a big scrapbook of those ten years, and it was super romantic and was really appreciated much more than any metal trinket. We still get it out every so often.

    I have some really strange stuff, like shop catalogues from Japan which I can't actually read and wouldn't be interesting anyway. Japan is probably the biggest space taker for this stuff.

    The things that I would never be able to get rid of would be my vinyl, CDs and DVDs.

  • To spin this in a positive way, on me and my wife's tenth anniversary of getting together, I actually made a big scrapbook of those ten years, and it was super romantic and was really appreciated much more than any metal trinket.

    Sparkling heart

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