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Comment #4078

2017-12-11T12:37:53Z

Stashing money around the house may be okay if your heirs know about it ... and if you don't live in California.

Comment #4077

2017-12-11T12:36:24Z

Kathy, as one who has three boxes of LP's sitting around simply because there are ones I can't replace, I can imagine how hard that was. If people aren't going to update their albums to modern formats, they should at least release the copyright so that others can.

I've let a lot of books go at various times. Many I don't miss, but some I have really regretted giving up, so much so that I hesitate to do the cleaning out my collection needs. I would be very happy to see them in our local library instead of on our shelves—after all, I don't need them constantly, just accessible. Why not share them with others? I'll tell you why not. Because when you donate books to a library, they don't put them on their shelves. They sell them, usually at ridiculously low prices. As a buyer I'm thrilled, but as a donor not happy at all. I wanted to donate the book; if I wanted to donate money, I'd have given much more than the price they put on the book. So now I hoard my books, because the library doesn't think them worth keeping.

Comment #4076

2017-12-10T14:17:31Z

Ha, ha. This reminded me of my grandmother and her refrigerator. She had an old one similar to your father's with the freezer inside the fridge and the handle that latched.

The latch finally let go. Did she replace the fridge then? No. She hired a handyman to come and put magnets on the side of both the fridge and the door that were supposed to keep it closed.

I suggested she was pushing frugality a bit too far and was treated to a lecture on not having lived through the Depression. Never mind all the money being wasted by not using a more energy efficient model. She did eventually replace it.

Maybe her holding on to it had nothing to do with the Depression and was really because she didn't want to have to shop and make a decision (she didn't have the option of shopping online in the 80's). No, I think the Depression is the real answer. After her death we found a couple thousand dollars stashed in various places around the house.

Comment #4075

2017-12-10T13:58:22Z

I also thought that I wasn't too attached to my "stuff" until I had to get rid of most of it when I moved to the Gambia. The books of course were the hardest to part with, but the LP's also were tough, since some have not been released as CD's, so they're gone forever.

Comment #4074

2017-12-09T20:56:41Z

That does help, thanks! Swiss Steel does a good work—as well as good work.

Comment #4073

2017-12-09T20:51:28Z

We call it raw material. Thanks for recycling!