From a comment I made elsewhere...

[moominmuppet]

I'm a proud packrat. I keep it as a community resource -- stuff gets added and removed from the collection constantly.

My favorite story of the unexpected benefits of my hoarding? In college, Alan came into the dorm room freaking out about an art project he'd procrastinated 'til the afternoon it was due. And he needed a foot or so diameter round of wood for it. Where the fuck was he going to find that?

Oh. In my basement. Because a few years ago, someone had done an installation piece with slices of tree trunk, and I'd ended up collecting one of them after it was disassembled.

And I knew I had it, and where to find it, too.

Go, packrats!

Comments

[chameleonpixie.livejournal.com]

I love it when that stuff happens. Woo, Pack Rat Pride!

[chameleonpixie.livejournal.com]

Random question: Were you the friend who recommended "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" to me? I got it at a book sale today and I knew someone recommended it to me, but I can't figure out if it was you or my friend Jay.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

nope, don't think it was me... What's it about? Now I'm curious...

[redbird]

It's the willingness to say "here, I have this, enjoy" that sets you apart from hoarders, I think.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I love being able to do that, and I also love the experience of sorting through boxes every few years, and being deluged with memories. Tangible items are huge memory triggers for me.

[calialleykat.livejournal.com]

I have a box of photographs/yearbooks and baby stuff that I haul out and go through periodically and I love that sort of melancholy lavender feeling I get looking back through the years.

[napalmmk9.livejournal.com]

delighted my procrastination at least allowed for a good story!

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

*grin* Do you remember that piece? you turned it into the top of a glass of iced tea or something. I recall a giant lemon slice in the split in the wood.