The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: collections

  • Do You Have Too Many T-Shirts? Here’s Your Solution!

    They went above and beyond.

  • Drawbridge Memorabilia

    Some people collect baseball cards. I collect drawbridge stuff.

  • Collecting Stuff

    You may rue the day you started collecting those beer steins.

  • The Worst Urban Legend – Soda Can Tabs

    I saw it again the other day, and it made me so sad. A group was collecting soda can tabs because they honestly and genuinely and truly believed that this would help someone. I don’t know if they thought it would get someone time on a kidney dialysis machine, or defray the cost of chemotherapy…

  • What Are You Leaving Behind?

    Somewhere in America, God only knows where, there are about 50 boxes of books that belong to me. They were left to me in my sister’s will. I’m sure she meant well. She knew how I love to read. But the last thing I need is her hoard of books. If anything, as much as…

  • The Futility of Accumulation

    I long to have one of those minimalist homes with wide expanses of floor space and no tchotchkes to dust or arrange. No clutter. No collections. I want to be able to move all my stuff from one house to the next in just one or two carloads. I often look around at the mess…