{"id":8575,"date":"2021-10-12T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:13:32","slug":"things-americans-let-go-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/things-americans-let-go-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted by the Ghost of Your Past: The Things Americans Can\u2019t Seem to Let Go Of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve all been there — holding onto things we should have let go of a long time ago. From old love notes to a prom dress to your very first cellphone (one of those indestructible Nokia brick phones, no less), we all hold on to a lot of things. We’re all haunted by the ghosts of our past (belongings).<\/p>\n

We were curious about exactly what it is that fills up junk drawers, backs of closets, garage shelves, and dusty attic boxes. So we set out to find out what belongings Americans can’t seem to let go of. Our survey found that we all hold onto different things for different reasons — but the one thing most of us have in common is that we wish all those old belongings weren’t in our houses anymore.<\/p>\n

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Some of our most interesting findings include:<\/p>\n