If Pens Were Valuable

Jules

Jules

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If pens or pencils or highlighters were valuable, I’d be stinking rich. It doesn’t seem long ago that I gave a bunch away to charities. These things must be reproducing in my desk.

What ordinary item do you have that you keep collecting or hoarding for no logical reason?
 

I just gave a ton of them away to a charity my son is associated with and they needed them desperately for the children.

I keep gift bags like they are going out of style. I wind up with nearly a closet full each year and then give them to everyone I know who needs one.
 
Amazing what items replicate themselves in out junk drawers - clothes pins and binder clips - pens and pencils and sharpies - paper clips and rubber bands - the list is exhaustive.

Unfortunately, it's never anything of value...
 

Elastic bands but I do need them now because my grocery store no longer puts rubber bands on the fruit packages and without them the lids pop open and all the berries go spilling all over the floor. 😡

So in my defense, I do have a reason.
 
All sorts of things!

Nice little boxes, plastic bags, cottage cheese containers, rubber bands, ...

Every now and then I have to do a purge.

I bargain with myself over how many I should keep and how many I should let go.

The magic number seems to be 6. :giggle:
 
Jules said:
What ordinary item do you have that you keep collecting or hoarding for no logical reason?
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Coat hangers. I swear that they breed in the wardrobe. To keep the beautiful clothes that my wife makes for me, I use bespoke hangers. Whenever something comes back from the dry cleaners, you can be sure that it will be on a yellow plastic hanger. What I should do is return the hanger when I next visit the dry cleaners, but it usually gets hung on the very end of the wardrobe rail, just in case. Eventually I will fill a shopping bag full of them and give them, and the bag, to some charity shop, or other.
 
Jules said:
What ordinary item do you have that you keep collecting or hoarding for no logical reason?
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That's the difficult part. There is usually a reason to think that I might want something in the future. Sometimes that proves to be true; sometimes not. An example of the former . . .

I subscribe to a particular hobby related magazine. I save the back issues for a year or two with the thought that I might want to refer back to a previous article . . . that never happens. But a couple of years ago a neighbor suffered a badly damaged leg and was housebound for a few months. Normally a very active guy, the tedium was making him crazy. Knowing he has a similar interest, I was able to give him a dozen or so issues of the magazine to help him pass the time.
 
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