[78-L] Too much STUFF! (was Looking for a home for 78s)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ramm" <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
> >  78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Right now my entranceway and computer area is so clogged with incoming
>> packages that I literally have to move things not just to get at other
>> things, but to get to the door. And my laundry is piled up on the
>> basement stairs where I threw it to get it down to the laundry room. If
>> I don't do my laundry I'll never see my records again. I'm expecting my
>> Nauction winnings and it won't fit in the door when it arrives.
>> Mike (i'm up to my keester in stuff) Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> Seeriously, Mike, you need to read up on The Collyer Brothers - if you 
> weren't aware of them.
Fortunately for them (or mebbe not?!)...the Collyer Brothers did NOT collect 
78rpm
phonorecords! They were merely crushed by impressive archives of paper 
publications.

Face a bitter reality here...we "pack rats" are psychologically doomed to 
continue our
tendencies/habits of trying to accumulate ALL/EVERY 78rpm phonorecord (or
wotever)! We look at the terminally-neat abodes of  "the white fo'ks" and 
shake our
heads sadly, wondering how anybody could suffer LIVING in such meaningless
and "empty" surroundings...equipped with perfectly-matched sets of IKEA 
furniture
(and little else!!).

Keep in mind that there exist gazillions of "Ye Olde Antique Shoppes" who 
have
merchandise simply because one of us "Pack Rats" decided to KEEP the dommed
stuff?!

Steven C. Barr
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers
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> We don't need news reports from Kentucky about you. And, as I found when I 
> helped the Petty Family dispose of John Petty's collection years ago, many 
> folks wouldn't want your stuff because they'd have to take EVERYTHING 
> (including your "dirty laundry" <g> along with it. <vbg>.
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> Only HALF joking here.
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> Steve
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