Compacting the Memories

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Hoarding is a finely crafted obsession. Choosing what to discard and what to store away in the extra bedroom—which ends up as the new storeroom—takes skill. Magazines are probably the best static shots of the time. They age extremely well if kept in the proper conditions and if not of the tabloid variety, educational.

Spotted on a show, Your Life on the Lawn, an impressive stack of National Geographics dating back to 1970 something. Excellent condition. Great condition. Yet at the slightest suggestion from one of the "team", the owner decides to pulp all except for one containing a story on Koko. And then they have a lunkhead who manages to sell the rest of the contents of the house for anything under one digit. Quick and fast. Memories pulped in seconds and cash of the jingle jangle sort take over the space left from the folded conversions.

Soon Van - Thursday, 6 March 2003 - 11:44

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