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Post by littleengine on Aug 5, 2010 0:04:24 GMT -5
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Post by messymimi on Aug 5, 2010 6:47:46 GMT -5
This story made my morning as I read it to my family. We all grinned in happiness for them.
Thanks for sharing it.
messymimi
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Post by morningglory on Aug 5, 2010 14:07:47 GMT -5
Wow, how amazing that the act of preparing for the loss of their house ended up saving it!
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Post by morningglory on Aug 5, 2010 14:10:39 GMT -5
The only thing is that this kind of feeds into my hoarding tendency, because hey that old comic book could be valuable someday, right when I most need it!  |
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Post by cleanchallenged on Aug 5, 2010 17:32:53 GMT -5
thats amazing! i love stories like these, im glad you put this up.  |
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Post by puppybox on Aug 5, 2010 19:18:21 GMT -5
i'm like morning glory. this kind of story, while fun, makes me cling to stuff.
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Post by littleengine on Aug 5, 2010 21:12:09 GMT -5
I'm sorry, I should have realized it might have that effect on a lot of us here. I apologize. (I'm not a hoarder, I'm a horrible slob, and for me, the story was helpful. I dread cleaning out my pit of a basement--I started earlier this summer with the maggot ordeal, but haven't made much progress since then. Reading this story was nice because there was that fantasy that maybe if I dig out all the garbage from my basement, I'll find something good. Ya know? I gotta find SOMETHING to motivate me, because I'm very depressed and miserable right now, and starting to backslide from whatever little I had managed to accomplish.)  |
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Post by morningglory on Aug 5, 2010 23:10:05 GMT -5
Hey, you're right littleengine! I can certainly look at it that way--if I clean everything out, and find out what I have, I can make use of it NOW! Because the truth of the matter is that if I tried to keep everything I thought might be useful someday, it'd all be a rotten mess and totally impossible to find if and when I DID need it. Don't apologize for the great story you posted. We can use this as motivation to FIND AND USE what we have! |
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Post by Rory on Aug 7, 2010 18:20:01 GMT -5
Perhaps the point is that they found it when they started to clear and sort stuff out.
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Post by Meme on Aug 7, 2010 21:29:51 GMT -5
and it is always good to hear good news --- I think we all know that we are telling ourselves a tall tale if we think that keeping things in squalor is going to give us a big pay day in the future=== the reason this was a story for news as it is something that seldom happens-- and when it does it is nice to rejoice--
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Post by Meme on Aug 7, 2010 21:37:18 GMT -5
also I noticed this comic book was in a sense well taken care of and not living in squalor -- which would have ruined the value ---I think our problem is not in the keeping of things but how we keep them--- we let our treasures live in the squalor too which is why we are here---hugs Meme
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