Confessions of a Pack Rat

I am a pack rat. This is a flaw I recognise and it affects me at work, home and in game. I don't like to throw stuff out. I often believe that it is stuff that I can use at a later date. Sometimes this is quite helpful and has stood me well. There have been times at work that I have been able to fix a problem with something I have in the back of the car. I have upgraded a computer with a stick of memory I had in the glove compartment. I often have spare keyboards or mice. And this has also been true in game.

I never throw anything away. Ever. My usual routine while playing is to run around doing a load of quests and pick everything up as I go along. When I hand in the quests I then also go through the bags and sort out everything. Anything that is used by professions gets sent to the relevant character to place into his/her respective guild bank. I use Altoholic to know what amounts of stuff I have but I innately know who looks after what. It has become ingrained. My GF knows that I store stuff so she will ask does anyone have any *item*. If it is on my account then I am able to check and tell her how many through Altoholic but if its her account I have to tell her which character to log. I did have Altoholic transfer the information from her account to mine about a month ago but I need to update it. With the amount it has it takes 15+ minutes if I remember right to get everything over, including guild banks.

So, anything that is profession related gets stored. So too is anything quest or rep related. I have complete sets of Hills of Stranglethorn. Probably around 5 or more with over 12 of some pages. Again, the GF knows I have access to all this and she will ask whether I have something or other. The last three characters I leveled (still am) and her last one both had the complete Hills as soon as they entered STV and immediately had that quest line completed for quick and easy XP. Then any pages they picked up got sent to the storage area again.

I pick up all greys as well. People can forget that money can be made from vendoring them. Grey weapons sell for over a gold each eventually as you level and late in the game entire stacks of grey items sell for golds. I pick them all up and sell nearly all of them!!!

I say nearly all of them because I do sometimes keep some. I play on an RP server and used to RP a lot in the past. I am starting to get back into it again with the insistence of my GF but slowly. However, for a good couple of years I have stored what amounts to be in a lot of cases junk. I have items that have no purpose than to take up inventory space but keep them because of what they are and carrying them can add realism. Sure, they are useless, sure they can be sold for gold but then they have a small RP value. In future posts you will see the junk I have.

I have gathered a lot in my travels and have stored a lot of it. In future posts I will go into each of the storage locations I have and cover what I have. I will try to include screenshots so you can see the lengths I have gone to. Seriously, there have been no limits for this pack rat.