What is National Pack Rat Day?
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Every year on May 17th, National Pack Rat Day encourages us to take a look at ourselves and see if we have "Pack Rat" tendencies within us. A Pack Rat holds on to, collects, or hoards, which are often unnecessary items.
According to Meriam Webster, the term pack rat refers to a wood rat that is used for hoarding food and random objects. The word is often used to describe people who do the same today.
Many people even refer to themselves as pack rats because they hold things they may need in the future, such as tools, boxes, and clothing. Have you ever cleaned out a nearest and critically examined every item, tossing and donating tossing and donating so that you had a clean space? You may have used one particular item you donated or discarded in the days or weeks after. It may be a paper or a container, but it never fails to happen. Pack rats consider every item before they toss and donate in the days of recycling, reusing, and repurposing.
The observance of the pack rat in any of us is a way for the pack rat to investigate our collecting habits. Do we really need t-shirts from 1975? Do we really need t-shirts from 1975? When was the last time you used the L wrench that came with the pre-fabricated entertainment center you no longer own? Of course, your only child will be grandparents the moment you sort through those toys and donate them to the charity. You didn't stick to those pack rat tendencies long enough.
