zxcvbob > wrote in news:5r0gn0F125rvvU1
@mid.individual.net:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>> Not long ago Cathy put up a survey, do you save containers.
>> Not me, brings back memories of my mother hoarding those
>> cruddy margarine tubs.
>>
>> Since then, things have changed. Now I have 3 jars and nothing
>> to put in them. But I'm not tossing them! I have that Gerber baby
>> food jar, surely there's a use for that! A Penzeys spice jar. Now,
>> a Stonewall Kitchen golden raspberry jam (damn was that stuff good!)
>> jar that's joining the jar collection.
>>
>> I have to start collecting stuff to put into them ...
>>
>> nancy
>>
>>
>
>
> I save peanut butter jars (for bullets), and coffee cans (for nuts &
> bolts and cartridge brass and stuff.) I may have enough coffee cans
> now... I've actually thrown a few out recently.
>
> I used to save margarine tubs and mayonnaise jars (I used the mayo
jars
> for canning) but have recently thrown away or recycled most of them.
My
> nature is to hoard things, but I'm working on that; you'd think I
lived
> during The Depression.
>
> Bob

My grandmother hoards *everything*. Her house is scary... I've seen food
in her house older than me. My father has gone through and tried to
throw things away, but all she will let him do it organize the nasty old
jars and cans in the basement, and then she complains that he's throwing
away perfectly good food. Meanwhile, she keeps buying whatever is a deal
atthe grocery store. My dad says it's from growing up during the
Depression, but I think she's just nuts. I am a bit of a hoarder, too,
and I hate passing up a good deal, but I'll purge once in a while, and I
try to keep my stuff organized. She, on the other hand, has had bathtubs
filled with newspapers (most unread), entire rooms made impassable
because of all the junk piled up, etc.
I lived with her for a few months at the end of my senior year of high
school. ::shudder::