The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-12-20
THROWING THINGS AWAY.
The Usual Course When a Family
Goes Through the StorerOOm
Before Moving.

"Always before we move" said Mr..
Billtops, 1--WE go through everything
in the storeroom and Gull out and
throw away the things that we don't
want. If we never moved l 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 a
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 dc
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 fol-
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.
II don't want to drag in melan.
choly thoughts in a cheerful CONVEX.
sation, but l find myself wondering
sometimes, MOVE as 1 grow older
what will become of all this truck
we save up, In this way, when we
die. 1t will all be just lying there
and those who come after us will
look at 1t and wonder what under
the canopy we saved 1t for, and then
they'll throw it away; which 1 tell
Mrs. Billtops we might just as well
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 1t is SUBJ
stantially true that all that miscel.
lareous 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 a curious expe.
rience in this way last fall.
wedding 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 a time! Mrs. Bill
top wanted to have me go right
away anu see Percy Nagle, and find
out what dump the things collected
on our block went to, and see if I
couldn't get the boxes back. Our
oldest daughter, Lucinda, WAS sure
the green box contained all of her
very best patterns, and I don't re-
member now what other things of
tremendous value those boxes did
contain. but | STAYED the folks off,
somehow, from day to day. and grad.
ually they felt easier about 1t and In
week they forgot 1t.
"rhat 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
ly 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 l 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
awayi that we never store cash
there, nor title deeds, nor anything
of real value. But she says no, shed
rather looks things over And 1
suppose that some OF these old
things, anyhow, may have In old as.
sociations value that will make US
cling to them to the end"
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