Rummaging Fills Desire for Wandering, Seeking; It Is a Challenge to Make Order Out of All the Stuff That One Acquires in a Lifetime

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › September 22, 2005

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It's Saturday and the classifieds are spread before me. I find myself irresistibly drawn to the rummage sale ads.

I don't really need anyone else's cast-off treasures; I have an attic full of my own "stuff" which has outlived its usefulness, but is too good to throw away.

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Rummaging Fills Desire for Wandering, Seeking; It Is a Challenge to Make Order Out of All the Stuff That One Acquires in a Lifetime

I can't bear to send these one-time pieces of my life to Goodwill only to have them shelved among the musty, battered items that gather dust while countless shoppers peruse and discount them as junk.

Somehow, if...

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