christie1111 wrote:Scary Marley, exactly what I thought when I read that post!MarleysGh0st wrote:Aha! The inspiration for Uly's newest avatar!TheConfessor wrote: I've been trying to become less of a pack rat.
It is like an Easter Egg Hunt.
MarleysGh0st wrote:christie1111 wrote:Scary Marley, exactly what I thought when I read that post!MarleysGh0st wrote: Aha! The inspiration for Uly's newest avatar!
It is like an Easter Egg Hunt.
Eggsactly!
Well, I still have the dried up placenta from Lamech's first wife's other brother who was my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great who-begat-person. Like that.Rexer25 wrote:I still have the papyrus scroll from my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand mother's birth annoucement. She was Moses's older sister.
Sorry, I was channeling BobJuch for a second.
She is those people.Sisyphean Fan wrote:Does she recognize herself when she sees those hoarding shows or is she all "I have a reason to keep stuff but now, those people, they've got a problem!peacock2121 wrote:My m-i-l really suffers from hoarding. I mean really.
She sold the family homestead a few years back and finally got rid of the phonebooks she had saved since they moved in in 1967. She has started saving the ones in Florida. When Sting told her she could throw them away, she said she doesn't because sometimes you can't find number in the new book and they will be in the old book.
I'm like "Does the old number work?"
Usually not, she says.
minimetoo26 wrote:I am not even close to a pack rat, but I live with a bunch of them. The worst part is when my sturdy oldest son goes to help the Uber-packrat m-i-l clean out a path to her bedroom, and he comes home with a bunch of her discarded "treasures". My favorite was the collection of old maps of this city from before I was born. Nostalgic, yes. Remotely useful, Hell to the NO!
Half the time I do a purge when I'm alone and nobody ever realizes shit is missing....
Hey, old maps are cool!minimetoo26 wrote:I am not even close to a pack rat, but I live with a bunch of them. The worst part is when my sturdy oldest son goes to help the Uber-packrat m-i-l clean out a path to her bedroom, and he comes home with a bunch of her discarded "treasures". My favorite was the collection of old maps of this city from before I was born. Nostalgic, yes. Remotely useful, Hell to the NO!
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?MarleysGh0st wrote:Hey, old maps are cool!minimetoo26 wrote:I am not even close to a pack rat, but I live with a bunch of them. The worst part is when my sturdy oldest son goes to help the Uber-packrat m-i-l clean out a path to her bedroom, and he comes home with a bunch of her discarded "treasures". My favorite was the collection of old maps of this city from before I was born. Nostalgic, yes. Remotely useful, Hell to the NO!
And some kids can't even read maps. Count your blessings.
Sometimes I loathe the internet. There are some things I think you should be able to live down.TheConfessor wrote:Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future."
SportsFan68 wrote:Sometimes I loathe the internet. There are some things I think you should be able to live down.TheConfessor wrote:Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future."
