09-16-2022, 04:09 AM
Being an inveterate hoarder myself, and somewhat smug about it, I enjoyed this article: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n17/jon-day/diary . I've never felt guilty regarding my penchant for collecting junk, finding it analogous to my lifelong search for good/bad movies. I always admired the carefree insouscience of the salvage yard. where a treasure lurked around every pile of discarded copper tubing and rusty bumpers. I've often thought that self-improvement flim-flams, encouraging divestiture of one's hard won cabinet of curiosities, is just a ruse to get a person to reinvest in THEIR assortment of even shoddier crap. My junk is my own personal version of Scrooge McDuck's money bath. (Besides, it keeps this great stuff out of the landfill) QED and I collect ergo sum. SvH