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08 June 2011
Oversharing I just thought I would join in the fun, get it over with and post a picture of my junk. I had no aspirations to public office anyway... not that that's a deterrent for anyone else.
I emptied my father's storage unit and the storage unit I shared with my ex-wife and am sorting it all out - some inside my apartment but most on the porch in front of my apartment. So my junk, my ex's junk and my dad's junk are all out in the open. Except for the junk that I decided really IS junk - my landlord keeps a trailer on the property where he puts all his junk to be sent to the junkyard and he allows the tenants to put their junk in it too. I know, it's a very unsanitary arrangement but it'll keep us all off "Hoarders".
I remember a cartoon in which the narrator kept calling the boat a junk; the owner angrily corrected him with "sampan". It gets trashed during the course of the cartoon. The narrator finally says sampan and the owner says "No, NOW it is a junk!"