Post #20038 by Formikahini on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 9:51 AM

Y'all are lucky. My mom saves the worst things (EVERY travel soap from recent years, to use as hand soaps in the kitchen. Enough for an ARMY for years), but has tossed, lost, or allowed to get ruined thru the years:

a cartoon cell from Disney's Snow White, autographed by Disney himself,

a Snow White costume that Mom's neighbor made for her when she was a little girl,

a Scarlett O'Hara doll with every dress from the movie...

and she wonders why I'm such a packrat now. Thank my lucky stars that a neighbor found and returned to my mom the dollar bill autographed by Elvis, which now sits proudly upon my wall. Except that Mom had it framed by an ignoramous, which caused the ink to fade considerably.

I kinda doubt any of us on this list live the Spartan sparseness lifestyle of Japanese minimalism. I'd wager that we all have waaaay too much stuff, according to the average joe who can't appreciate really cool fifty year old matches, menus, coasters, mugs, swizzle sticks, etc.!