Collecting Is Making Me Crazy
I absolutely will not buy another imitation tree.......!!!! i have to keep that promise because I am going to have to move out if I don't. I love those trees and have been getting really pretty ones at garage sales for $2 to $5. They are $75 or more at Hobby Lobby. For awhile I was collecting pieces of Bela Casa by Ganz. The plates, candle holders, clocks and dishes only, until I was being forced out onto the porch. I gave about 3/4 of my collection to my daughter and told her to sell it back on eBay (where I got most of it in the first place). Another of my collections are the old Nancy Drew books with the yellow bindings. I have been trying to get four full sets, one each for my granddaughters. The problem with that is by the time I get four full sets I will probably have about 500 books. I do have a spoon collection with spoons from every foreign and major US city I have been to. Fortunately they hang on the wall so they aren't pushing me outside yet. Why do people collect so much "stuff"? I keep trying to clean out things so my kids don't have to go through all my stuff like we did my moms. My mom was a very sweet lady but she had this problem, she collected things and sure didn't throw away much. She had a store full of material that she was "going" to make patch work quilts out of, which she did but she had enough material for about 7000 quilts. I think my mom and my grandmother were of a generation that just didn't throw things away. During the depression they didn't have much to start with. I don't have an excuse unless you call a lack of will power an excuse.
posted by Grannyann at
5:11 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Ann, I have a few collections but not that many. I like pottery, I have a clock in every room and I like books. That is about it. My older sister went through the depression and has not thrown away anything since then! I have to say my daughters are bad about keeping stuff, too. I try to keep it down for the very reason you said. I don't want them to have to go through thousands of things when I leave this earth.
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