I can't throw it away!

I keep going to tidy my room, convinced I can free up some wardrobe or bookcase space, but I can never bring myself to throw anything away. I've got some really dumb shit too; a napkin from an annual family holiday, an old snake skin, my primary school jumper, a couple of homework planners from highschool (which are absolutely desecrated with graffiti), a box of cards from birthdays and Christmases, two shelves full of beanie babies and other assorted stuffed animals, notebooks full of completely random crap, a scrapbook I've had since I was about 6 which is mostly made up of Lion King stickers, two Crash Bandicoot figurines, a bunch of Pokemon cards which were given to me, insect repellant which I'll probably never use, unused stationary because I have some sort of addiction to buying it, the list is endless.

It took me a year to finally chuck some old issues of magazines I had lying around; I cut out the articles I wanted and stuck them in a big folder. The same with the box of old cards; I now only keep the ones from the previous year (excepting certain special ones) but I don't know why I do it, since I never really look at them again. I worry that if I throw something out, I'll find some inexplicable use or need for it soon after it's gone. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a neat-freak too, so I find myself in a conundrum most of the time.

Jam it back in, in the dark.