You Might Be A Pack Rat If...

You actually think you'll wear that ugly piece of clothing one day.
• You have more than 20 keys on your key ring, but live in a one-entrance apartment and have only one car.
• You rent 4 units in a public storage facility that are packed with "essentials" that you haven't visited in over 5 years.
• You get sued by your best friend because she tripped and broke her leg while trying to walk the ten feet to the bathroom from your living room.
• You don't throw things away because every time you do you need them a week later.
• Whenever anyone mentions a subject, you tell them you have the original article about it...somewhere.
• You can't throw stuff away because grandma said, "There might be another depression one day and you don't want to be left wanting."
• You keep your kid's clothes so your grandchildren or great grandchildren can wear them.
• There are newspapers that are over 20 years old in your basement, and Ann Landers look so young!
• Your car has more stuff in it than your garage.
• You have the calendar and registration handbook from all four years of high school.
• You still have *every* ticket stub for *every* movie you have *ever* been to.
• You think those Mork and Mindy trading cards will be worth something some day.
• Your taxes are perfect because you actually do keep every receipt.
• You have every credit card that you ever owned laying somewhere around the house.
• You have a shoebox marked "string too small to use."
• Every time a stack of your "valuables" falls over in your garage, it triggers a 4.0 earthquake on the Richter scale.
• You have 3 vacuums and hardwood floors.
• You can't park your car in your garage.
• You still have the original box and packing material for every electronic device you have ever bought
• There are no uncluttered horizontal surfaces larger than a coffee cup to be found.
• You are currently shopping for your third outdoor storage shed in two years.
• Every spare space on all furniture is covered.
• You don't throw away junk mail.
• You never have to empty the trash.
• You still have instructions for every product ever bought, including your iron, toaster, blender or calculator.
• You still have all the old broken VCRs stored under your bed--just in case.
• People having garage sales in your area send you a personal invitation.
• You keep every pair of shoes that are either in or out of fashion thinking you might need them one day.
• You re-read outdated magazines over and over again instead of buying new ones.