Why I am a packrat

So, I have this annoying habit where I never get rid of anything. I have pretty much every homework assignment and test from every class I've taken at OU, and some from high school. I'm trying to get rid of stuff, really. A couple weeks ago, I found a copy of my high school transcript and random pictures from magazines that I had cut out for a project in 10th grade and then never used. I threw away the pictures but kept the transcript. Really, it's amazing that there's not more stuff in my room than there is.

Anyway...my OU email finally got moved over to exchange. I've never used an email client program before, basically because I refused to use Outlook. However, now that I have a mac and now that I'm not on the old OU email, I decided to use Mail. Well, in the process of moving emails around and sorting them, I deleted quite a few things, including my "sent mail" folder which included 4.5 years of sent mail. This was less than a week ago and I have since wanted 2 things specifically that I normally wouldn't have deleted, but did, without thinking, in an effort to get rid of excess "stuff". I now feel completely justified for never deleting anything else, because you really never do know when you might need something from years ago.