{"id":26925,"date":"2020-10-09T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2020-10-07T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:38:16","slug":"more-than-i-have-certainly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/more-than-i-have-certainly\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than I Have, Certainly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/12866883\/britains-biggest-hoarder-nottingham-auction\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL HOUSE! Hoarder\u2019s amazing \u00a34million Aladdin\u2019s Cave with 60,000 treasures packed into terraced house<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AN INCREDIBLE \u00a34million treasure trove of more than 60,000 items has been discovered in the home of Britain&#8217;s biggest hoarder.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the haul consists of unopened packages delivered to the property since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours say a full Royal Mail van of parcels would arrive at the collector&#8217;s home every Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually had to move into a bed and breakfast and rent a one-bedroom flat and two garages to continue to store the items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One expects that the you-store-it industry is not as big in England as here.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that I even aspire to that amount of accumulation.  To be honest, my own gathering has tapered off a bit in recent years.  I mean, I still buy books, records, and CDs in fair amounts, but I have only bought a single comic book this year (I think), and I&#8217;m not out at garage sales and flea markets where I used to pick up larger items like video games or old computers (not that they&#8217;re available at garage sales any more&#8211;the real vintage window closed) or old cameras or things I thought were cool but just take up space in the store room or closet.  I have not picked up any crafting hobbies that led to trips to the craft store to stock up on a lot of supplies that have gotten sidelined.  I never really got into collecting action figures, toys, or mementos to fill a house.  I&#8217;ve even started trimming my collection of old clothing&#8211;I had thirty years of shirts and old jeans stashed away&#8211;what depression did I live through?<\/p>\n<p>Although you haven&#8217;t seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/category\/depackratification\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depackratification<\/a> post in years here, gentle reader, look kindly upon me and think, as I do, that I am depackratifying by simply slowing my rate of accumulation.  And, should I call upon you during a discussion with my beautiful wife as to whether we really need a bigger home or not (you-store-its are for the weak!), please agree with me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FULL HOUSE! Hoarder\u2019s amazing \u00a34million Aladdin\u2019s Cave with 60,000 treasures packed into terraced house: AN INCREDIBLE \u00a34million treasure trove of more than 60,000 items has been discovered in the home of Britain&#8217;s biggest hoarder. Most of the haul consists of unopened packages delivered to the property since 2002. Neighbours say a full Royal Mail van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26926,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions\/26926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}