Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-16
THROWING THINGS AWAY.
How the Good Housewife Does Cling
to Old Rubbish.

always before we move" said Mr..
Billtops, eve 20 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 bc buried under the accu-
mutation Of things which from time to
time we save.
1--WE save tons Of newspaper clippings
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 mgging around
for years, paying to have them moved
and giving up room for the storing Of
them, that we never look into Mt 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 EN- around.
81 don't want to drag in melancholy
thoughts in 4 cheerful conversation, but
] find myself wondering sometimes now,
MS | grow older, what will become OF all
this truck we save up in this way when
we die 1t will all bc just lying there,
and those who come after us will look at
il and wonder what under the canopy
we saved it for, and then they'll throw
ii away. which ] tell Mrs. Biltops we
might just as we'll do now ourselves and
get rid of it. There's nothing in the
whole blessed stororoom that we might
not with perfect safety throw right out
without ever looking nj it. oh, of course,
that * rather n sweeping assertion. hut
nevertheless it is substantially true that
all that miscellaneous array Of boxes and
bundles there. Of odds and ends of one
sort and another. we might just as well
throw away bodily. and we nevcr'd miss
'em We had Il curious experience in
this way last fall.
"Wocdiug things out. then. in the usual
manner, we set out Of the sturcrOom 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 Mt. and we never
discovered it till the next day. Then
there was tiur. Mrs BiIltops wanted
to have mc 90 right away and find ont
what dump the Things collected on our
block went to- and see if ! couldn't &c.
the boxes back. Our Oldest daughter,
Lucinda was sure the green box con
tanned all of her very best patterns, and
don't remember now what other things
of tremendous value those boxes did con
tain. but STAYED the folks off somehow
from day to day. and gradually they felt
easier about it and in a week they for
got it.
That was year ago, and do you sup
pose we've missed anything? Why, not
thing. There wasn't anything in those
| boxes that we really wanted to use. II
| there mad been, we would have kept on
| using it, but we hated to throw the stuff
| away.
II tell Mrs. Blltops. as l said before
that it would be perfectly safe to clear
| out the whole stOrcrOom without looking
at the stuff at all; just throw the whole
| thing right away: that we never stor,
| cash there. nor title deeds, nor anything
! of real value But she says no; she't
rather look things over, and | suppos,
that some of these old things, anyhow
may have in old associations n valu,
| that will make us cling to them TO the
end. New York sun.