mywife asked me to clean mycomputer desk, i have my torch draw there, and some torches on mydesk, to oogle over
so whilst doing it, she desided to help me……….
3 lumintop boxes, 3 convoy boxes, all had to be thrown away 
i said oh well as now im keeping the lumintops i can throw the boxes away
she was happy that i threw them away, and i was happy she didnt think i was mental for collection torches
lost the battle ,won the war!
When women clean it always involves throwing stuff away ..why is that ?
Cleaning to me always meant moving stuff .cleaning and then ,moving it back .
Maybe they think throwing stuff away gives them the right to go buy new stuff ? Clearly it's not for us to know ...you did the right thing .
oh they have the right to buy new stuff, i never argue…i just hide! and not look at our bank statment for a while
saying that i buy new torches often and also hide the bank statment for a while
seems torches are not as expensive as handbags though!
All is fair in Love and War 
There will always be a battle of give and take, our ( men ) need to be careful not to always give, as it is our nature to provide. We deserve our toys too and we try not to judge what our mate likes as their toys. So its a battle you can loose as long as you don’t lose the war, just like you said 
Hide your beloved flashlights inside an ammo can and a lock!
Or buy a safe and store them inside!
Hurry up!
My dad had a tough time throwing anything away that he thought could be useful some day. It led to my parents having a lot of junk they can’t get rid of, and instilled me with the same problems.
Fortunately, my wife has mostly broken me of it. To me, true cleaning has a few steps:
So, cleaning a table might mean the stuff on the table has to be cleared off. Cleaning a shelf might mean the items on the shelf just have to move during cleaning, and then get put back because it’s where they belong.
Occasionally I might keep on to things that could be usefull. In due time. It’s something genetic.
But when I finally throw things away, in the bin they land on top of things I’ve never seen before.
Some of them still in their original sealed boxes!
Who first got the idea of placing gadgets near the exit of a supermarket should get the Nobel-prize.
Or face capital punishment for wasting hard earned money for no reason.
My wife doesn’t throw stuff away. She’s got a bit of a hoarding streak. I’m the one who throws away some of her clutter!
Before marriage, one time I dated a girl who still lived at home with her parents, and the house was wall-to wall stacks of newspapers, magazines, and useless junk with just a narrow pathway through the stacks. I vowed my house would never be that cluttered, and didn’t date her again. (She was a lousy kisser anyway.)
Yeah, my wife is like that... gets into cleaning binges, throws stuff out and doesn't remember-like, at all. It's like an alcoholic blackout. I've even found checks in the garbage. So I have to be a picker. And I get pissed.
My mom was an over the top, OCD neat freak and it made my life miserable. So I have the makings of a really fine hoarder in me, taking comfort in being buried (figuratively) among flashlights, shortwave radios, books, tablet and movies. Social distancing is nothing to me.
I do have anxiety and depression diagnoses so I'm very compassionate with others that have problems, but I can't-and won't-do OCD. Just can't tolerate it.
It's a catch-22-I restore old radios for my other passion and I have to keep junkers-parts donors-around since you can't just run to the electronics store or Amazon for parts, so the room where I fix? Just call A&E now! 