I used to be a pack rat too, but ended up moving around quite a bit and after you move things a few times you start to thin things out.

I'm a packrat like nobody's business but I still need to clean up my act.

I used to be a pack rat (like you MissPackRat), but I trimmed it down a lot.  I save things that had some sort of impact on me or the world (newspapers, SI issues, articles, etc).  I have newspapers from the days both my children were born, so that when they are older, they can know what happened at the time of their births.  That's the kind of stuff I save ~ maybe that just makes me sentimental?

A little of everything. Hence, my username.