Amazing hoard of TVs ...

[Phil Nelson]

Hoarding cases like that are sad. The hoarder has no interest in using the items, much less restoring them. They are not even displayed. It's all about the getting -- and then they are forgotten and often left to crumble.

I went to an estate sale several weeks ago that was similar, although not as extreme. At least the things piled in the house had been kept mostly dry. Not true for the items crammed into two unheated sheds in the back. Everything back there was slowly returning to the elements.

After witnessing a scene like that, I return home and look at my own piles of "stuff" with a different eye.

That said, I would have enjoyed exploring that shed. Haven't we all had those "treasure" dreams, where you stumble onto an amazing trove of interesting stuff?

Phil Nelson