psychology.......why do people keep things answers the question why do people still keep things even if they are no longer in use or are considered to be trash by others because keeping them makes their place/home a pigsty

6. Empty cologne bottles
Notes
Letters
Tissues from restaurants
Candy bar/chocolate wrappers
Film canisters
Plastic bags
Torn up papers
Tickets/movie tickets
Money/coins
Disposable utensils
Test papers in HS

7. Old photo booth pictures
Old shirts/blouses
Broken cell phone
Notebooks
Folders
Flower
Computer
Scrapbooks in boxes
Deposit slips
Empty ball pens
Food boxes
Stuffed toys

8. Lamp
Handmade quilts
Decorations
Pocket watch handed down from
grandpa
Glassware
Grandpa’s violin
Medals
trophies
Picture frame
Century old clock, and many others

9. These things may at one
time hold some purpose
for us. We enjoyed
looking at them, playing
with them, displaying
them or using them.

10. Some memory
Some personal link
Some meaning

11. Monetary value
Sentimental value

12. If we are going to sell
the thing on a lower
price then we are lost.
The market values it
therefore we must also
value it.

13. There may be a fondness
for the place, the time
or the person we was
with when we acquired
it.
The item may be given
to us in commemoration
of some special events.

14. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Or we may feel the
association of the things
with a particular
person, makes it
important.
Someone we admire or
hold dear values it, and
so therefore we should
as well.

15. These things represent
our love as a couple and
as a family, as friends.
They also signify all those
people over the years we
have loved and who loved
us and each had stories to
tell

16. They tell of all we’ve
been through together
and where we were
headed.
They speak in the voices
off generation’s past-parents
and
grandparents.

17. We keep them because
we believe that every
item we have holds
memories that we’ll
never be able to get
back if we are to get rid
of them.

18. Utilitarianism
People keep things because it
has still its utility. These
things are utilized to serve a
purpose-that is to keep
memories always be
remembered and
unforgotten. They hold
memories and tell stories

19. Materialism
We keep things because we
want the memories to live in. It
can be associated to
materialism in which we only
remember people, the place or
the memories when we hold into
something or when we see those
things that really exist. We want
the physical things (physicalism)
to be present to keep that
memory lasting.

20. Axiology
We have dawned onto the
object’s intrinsic value. We really
don’t care about the appearance
of our old shoes and shirts, our
smelly pictures and rotten
gadgets because we consider
what is in each item-its intrinsic
value. They give us happiness, a
sense of comfort while
appreciating the fact that each
thing hold memories, and thus it
has value to us.

21. Aesthetics
We keep things because we want
them to be always part of ours. We
see it to be beautiful when we know
that our items are there in our reach.
To some people, it is some kind of
pigsty thing, but the way we judge it,
it has a distinct beauty that we love
to mingle with it. In this case, we
have the so-called separation issues
because we have already established
closeness or oneness to these things

22. Idealism
Keeping things is based on the
idea that if we put these
things, we will never be able
to get back the memories
that is contained in them. We
are blinded on the idea that
these things are really
important, and the idea of
importance is to keep those
things

23. Capitalism(Monetary Value)
We keep these because we think
of the money or how much we
actually paid for it. We don’t
want to lose them because we
think that we are lost if we sell
it at a lower price, or we may
value it because we know that
the market values it, and thus
we must also value it.

24. JESUS VALENCIA
BSE IV C