St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-10-26
THROWING THINGS AWAY.
The Usual Course When a Family
Goes Through the stOrcrOom
Before Moving.

always before we move" said Mt.
Billtops, eve go through everything
in the storeroom and Gull out and
throw away the things that we don't
want. If we never moved don't
know but what finally we'd be buried
under the accumulation of things
which from time to time we save.
1--WE save tons of newspaper clip
pings alone, and we always have .
pile of magazines containing articles
that we want to read over again, but
never do. We put away old clothes.
and don't know what not OF things
we've got through with that are OF
no earthly use to us, but that we
hate to throw away. And how we do
hang on to some of these things.
Why, say, we've got boxes and trunks
containing things that we've saved
in that way that we've been Juggling
around for years. paying to have
them moved and giving up room for
the storing of them, that we never
look into at all. We couldn't tell
what was in some of them without
looking, but they are things we sort
of hate to throw away, and so we
keep Juggling 'em around.
Il don't want to drag in melan-
choly thoughts in cheerful CONVEX
sation, but I find myself wondering
sometimes, now, as I grow older,
what will become of all this truck
we save up, in this way, when we
die. It will all be just lying there
and those who come after US will
look at it and wonder what under
the canopy we saved it for, and then
they'll throw it away; which I tell
Mrs. Billtops we might just as we'll
do now ourselves and get rid of it.
There's nothing in the whole blessed
storeroom that we might not with
perfect safety throw right out with
out ever looking at it. Oh, of course,
that is rather sweeping assertion;
there are blankets there, and that
sort of thing stored away for the
summer; but nevertheless it is SUBJ
stantially true that all that miscel-
laneous array of boxes and bundles
there, of odds and ends of one sort
and another, we might just as we'll
throw away bodily, and we never'd
miss: 'em. We had curious expe-
rience in this way last fall.
"Wecding things out then, in the
usual manner, we set out OF the
storeroom one day three big boxes
of stuff to look over. But somehow
these boxes got mixed in with the
stuff that had been looked over and
was ready to throw away; and away
they went, never looked at, and we
never discovered It till the next day.
Then there was time! Mrs. Bill
top wanted to have me go right
away and see Percy Nagle, and find
out what dump the things collected
on our block went to, and see it I
couldn't get the boxes back. Our
oldest daughter, Lucinda, was sure
the green box contained all Of her
very best patterns, and don't re-
member now what other things Of
tremendous value those boxes did
contain, but / STAYED the folks of,
somehow, from day to day, and grad
ually they felt easier about it and in
. week they forgot it.
"That was year ago. And do you
suppose we've missed anything?
Why! Not a thing. There wasn't
anything in those boxes that we real
~ wanted to use; if there had been
we would have kept on using it. But
we had hated to throw the stuff
away.
81 tell Mrs. Billtops, as I said be-
fore, that it would be perfectly safe
to clear out the whole storeroom
without looking at the stuff at all;
just throw the whole thing right
away; that we never store cash
there, nor title deeds, nor anything
of real value. But she says no, shed
rather looks things over And I
suppose that some of these old
things, anyhow, may have in old as
sociations value that will make u
eling to them TO the end"