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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2009 14:43:30 GMT
Yaaaay ~~ you have been upset (with good reason) about that cable. Thank goodness it's been found.
And I imagine we'll be the beneficiaries of its downloading some of your photos, hey?
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Post by spindrift on Apr 26, 2009 14:53:30 GMT
Yes, I'll be able to show you my garden!
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 9, 2009 16:49:58 GMT
Kerouac has confessed he has maybe 10,000 used cinema tickets.
If you are as old as I am you'll remember old gramophones that played 78s with metal needles. My father used to hoard the metal needles, waiting for the day someone marketed a gizmo that could sharpen them.
Mrs Faz complains that I am the opposite of a hoarder and have thrown out all my past. But I have kept all the letters she wrote to me before we got together.
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Post by imec on Aug 9, 2009 16:53:02 GMT
I hoard old magazines (about food, cars, motorcycles, wine, music... ). Mrs. imec's trying to get me to abandon several boxes of them today in fact.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2009 18:45:24 GMT
Not really a hoarder, but I do like collecting antiques. I think I've mentioned about the chamber pot that I have, old playing cards, coins etc...
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 9, 2009 23:06:04 GMT
Also, not a hoarder, but collect Native American art.
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Post by lola on Aug 9, 2009 23:44:25 GMT
Nice, traveler. I have a pot like the one third from the left, second shelf.
My antihoarding ideal is my grandmother, who when she died left two cardboard boxes with mementoes of their long and eventful life. How easy to be the heir of such a person, though I wish there had been a few more photos kept.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2009 1:38:23 GMT
Traveler, that is THE most beautiful collection! My eyes are green & crossed over the pots and that plate.
Have you visited Mata Ortíz?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 4:00:48 GMT
Beautiful collection t63. Am I going crazy or didn't we have a thread on Hoarding here somewhere? I'm sure of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2009 5:00:20 GMT
Oh heck ~~ I didn't look at the numbers and simply assumed this was the same thread. I hate when this happens.
Our host board has an upgrade due soon and one of the features will be the ability to merge two threads.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2009 5:02:47 GMT
Here it is ~~ the original hoarding thread.
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 10, 2009 6:57:50 GMT
Bixa, you have a mind like the back of a huge envelope, where masses of things are recorded, such as previous threads. Sorry to duplicate.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 10, 2009 10:07:15 GMT
I have cables and other accessories for external hard drives long obsolete. I already got rid of the more uselessly obsolete.
However, the carrying cases they came in are way cool and I save them for other purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 15:24:05 GMT
Actually, that reminds me, Don, I do have a lot of wires and plugs of different sorts. Since my kids have quite a few different types of systems (Game boy, Xbox, Nintendo, Game cube, etc. different kinds from different years). Not to mention other plugs and chargers from various computers, cell phones, (I have a couple that I use only in the UK). The other day I actually spend hours sorting through it all, and placing the different plugs etc, in various size zip lock bags. I'm still not sure what belongs to what, but at least I tried...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 17:37:14 GMT
I have enough useless cables to strangle an entire apartment block of student nurses.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 10, 2009 19:07:01 GMT
I really left out the Native American rugs and paintings that we have but I think you all get the idea. Thanks to all for the kind words.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2009 1:58:58 GMT
You're off your medication again, aren't you?
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 12, 2009 12:26:06 GMT
We have so much stuff, electronic in nature. Not to mention old cell phones, battery chargers, heck, I still have my old laptop. The cell phones we donate, they go to our American soldiers and Marines. The other things, we drop off once a month to a city collection site and they donate. The rest of the cords, etc, Kirk says let's keep we might need , will never happen.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 5:56:02 GMT
That really is a very nice collection, and I don't even like that stuff usually. But these are recent items, I think, and not old stuff... ? I like the styling without the 'primitiveness'.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 15, 2009 15:43:30 GMT
K2:
Yes, they are relatively new, as in 20th century. The Katsinas on top all were carved since the 1960's. There is a basket in the first picture in the middle of the second shelf that is circa 1890's. It is an Apache woven basket.
You are correct in thinking , Native American art, you either love it or not.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 2:13:37 GMT
Just loved that collection t63. I'm interested in all things Native too...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 16:35:22 GMT
I caught Mr. C rinsing out plastic bottles today and stacking them in the laundry room. Might have to disable the Weather Channel when he's not watching.
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 16, 2009 20:51:34 GMT
Do you remember slides? I finally persuaded Mrs Faz to throw out several hundred slides of her previous married life. She thought her children might like them in decades to come.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 20:52:45 GMT
Meanwhile, I bought a slide scanner to save things from the distant past.
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 16, 2009 21:14:57 GMT
(Hush. Fortunately Mrs Faz is too occupied with our pre-move stuff to look in here)
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 16, 2009 21:17:17 GMT
Oh, she is going to toss out stuff from her previous marriage to a lawyer. Is eleven eyars safe to throw away his threatening letters? It would just be psychologically good to move on to a clean new house.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 15:14:40 GMT
I saw previews on TV for a new series coming on A&E called "Hoarders". It looked both tragic and funny. May have to check out.(based on true stories) In the meantime ,I realized that this time of year I hoard more. Animal instinct I suppose, but no excuse...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 15:55:23 GMT
I am continuing to de-stock some of my canned goods. The other day I managed to use a can of Albertson's mild green chilis "best before 10/1/2001" -- that means I must have bought it in California some time in the 20th century.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 30, 2009 16:09:49 GMT
This is interesting, because while hoarding is a problem - and can be a very serious condition - many of us have good reason to have a larder or pantry. I'm wondering if we have a thread about that somewhere in the food section?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 16:48:21 GMT
There is a thread OLD FOOD ITEMS on page one.Freezer Surprise and Cleaning out the Fridge have covered some discussion of this as well.
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