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Researchers Find Clues to 'Pack-Rat' Urge
WebMD Medical News ^
| Dec. 17, 2004
| Miranda Hitti
Posted on 12/18/2004 7:05:24 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
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To: MississippiMasterpiece
I worked with a guy who collected Netsukes. mint sets, rare coins and other uncatalogued items; his ins. agt. wanted him to inventory them and he refused allowing as it was too much trouble.
He came in and retired one morning with no warning and everyone at work wondered if he had simply wandered off to die.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:12:39 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
To: OSHA
Yes it is. Now get busy and there will be big rewards in it for you.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:14:01 AM PST
by
JudyinCanada
(Five-fingered Canadian)
To: searchandrecovery
As a foil to this discussion, one of my former girlfriends had a whacky New England auntie who was a "packratter" of a kind. Lived in a Rhode Island farmhouse, and became a bit of a recluse except for the local neer-do-well who served as her gardener/handyman/delivery boy in her twilight years.
When she passed away, they found the house was crammed to the rafters with antique New England furniture, paintings, knick knacks, etc. "Junk". The assessed value was several million dollars, and the neer-do-well and the family fought over the estate for years (she'd left two separate conflicting wills).
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:15:44 AM PST
by
angkor
To: MississippiMasterpiece
LOL.
Have had to reform. Hauling bags back and forth across the Pacific is very limiting on limited income! Giving yet another round of books to the church.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:20:20 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: angkor
"Packratters can't even let go of a coffee can full of used pencils or an 8-track cassette player."
Right, that's a good definition. It really is a disease. I have a VERY hard time throwing anything away, just because I don't want it any more. If it's broken I can toss it easily. Plastic is the bane of my existance, it almost NEVER breaks. Every few years I will force myself to throw out the big stack of hard plastic drink cups that has grown in my kitchen cabinet. I really wish we still lived in a more bio-degradable world.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:23:06 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
To: jocon307
There is no excuse.
If you haven't used in the last year, to the trash can it goes.
I have an elderly packratter relative who sends/distributes the ephemera of a lifetime in dribbles to the whole family.
It's ruthless, I suppose, but after a five second review I decide whether it goes on a shelf or in the trash. 90 percent goes to the dump, and I think of it as a favor to the packratter relative who can't do it himself.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:34:11 AM PST
by
angkor
To: angkor
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:41:16 AM PST
by
searchandrecovery
(This space intentionally left blank.)
To: JudyinCanada
Yes Dear.
*Begins rearranging piles of stuff so they look smaller.*
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:51:10 AM PST
by
OSHA
(OSHA, the Grand Wizard and Chief Executive Fascist of FreeperWorld- Industries LLC)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
I read this and immediately discarded my collection of matchboxes filled with pieces of string too short to use.
Seriously, though, I've have an old British motorcycle for a long time, and over the years I've made changes for convenience and comfort, like adding turn signals (safety) and raising the handlebars. It was a "cafe racer" and with the short handlebars it was like riding a jackhammer.
As is, I can probably get around $6,000 - $7,000 for it; but the other day I was told that it would be worth in excess of $30,000 in original condition! However, the box where I kept the original parts has long since been lost or thrown away.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:51:39 AM PST
by
Marauder
(Merry Christmas, ACLU, and may God have mercy on you.)
To: Marauder
an old British motorcycleBSA, Triumph, Norton?
Vincent?
Have you checked the online Brit bike shops that are here in the U.S.A.?
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:56:31 AM PST
by
angkor
To: MississippiMasterpiece
I think that there are some books that could help you with this problem.
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posted on
12/18/2004 9:59:46 AM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:03:41 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(I'm from North Dakota and I'm all FOR Global Warming!)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:04:42 AM PST
by
Libertina
(Dino Rossi WON the election TWICE!)
To: Irish Queen
This morning, I thought that I must be the only goof ball around with so many books. I estimate my book collection at somewhere around 4000 volumes. All this in a two bedroom apartment! My latest craze has been old collectible magazines. With the price that I have paid for some of them, they ought to count as books. The highest price I paid for a single magazine was $110.00 (Volume 1 Number 1 issue of the Double Gun Journal). I honestly don't even know how many old magazines I have. The really bad places to hang out for old books are estate sales. A couple of months ago, I bought five volumes of "Public School Methods", copyright 1912. I got them for only a buck apiece. I just can't seem to walk away from good deals on old books.
My name is dbehsman and I am a bookaholic.
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:07:05 AM PST
by
dbehsman
(NRA Life member and loving every minute of it!)
To: angkor
Hey! The 8-tracks work in the Lincolns ('78 and '79). Why not get the tapes? LOL!
Nothin' wrong with those pencils, either...
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:08:12 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(I'm from North Dakota and I'm all FOR Global Warming!)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
Any single male Freepers out there who have a penchant for collecting small green pieces of paper?
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:14:36 AM PST
by
Nataku X
(There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
I collect matches from various restauants and hotels and conferences I've been to. May not mean much to anybody else, but it brings back memories to me. And maybe I'll need them to light a candle if the power goes out.
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:18:30 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
To: xJones
Oh, thank God! But can it be eventually cured?
Well, maybe. But, you will have to search out and collect more books to find out.
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:18:34 AM PST
by
wizr
(Freedom ain't free.)
To: Ciexyz
Cute idea, I like that. Dad collects $1 poker chips.
When I was little, I was big into collecting pencils. My family travelled a lot and I'd pick up a souvneir pencil from wherever we went. Had a bunch of out-of-state pencils from fairs, museums, etc. Then someone stole the collection right form my locker. I was crushed... some of the pencils were really neat, with small stones in them and pressure sensitive pencils and weird shapes and special wood and all that. Dad took it to the principal, the principal thought it was a big joke...
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:25:48 AM PST
by
Nataku X
(There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
To: MississippiMasterpiece
Pack Rats find clue to Obsessive Researchers
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posted on
12/18/2004 10:29:55 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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