That's why I keep stuff but it gets overwhelming at times.
Packrat discoveries!
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Packrat discoveries!
OK, I admit to being a pack rat. I have WAY too much stuff and the better half has been on my case to toss stuff out. 
So I have been gradually trying to sort and discard, with occasional successes. In the process, I had two "rewards".
A while back I dug a box of old receipts, bills etc from the basement and was in the process of taking it to the recycle box in the garage when I realized it included my auto insurance policies from the mid-1970s. A little digging, and I was able to locate the VIN of my '63 vert I sold over 30 years ago! No sign of it on the C-2 registry though.
The other interesting find was in a box of old car magazines from the late 60's etc. I found THREE new, never-been-opened envelopes each containing an issue of Corvette News, the magazine GM used to put out for Vette owners. At one point I had a duplicate subscription and the dupes got set aside - I sold off the originals long ago. Can't say which issues they are but they're from around 1968 or 1969. Naturally THOSE won't get recycled, but I'm debating whether to open them and read them again, or put them up on flea-bay and see what they'll fetch.
So I guess it sometimes pays to hang on to stuff- at least until she draws the line!
So I have been gradually trying to sort and discard, with occasional successes. In the process, I had two "rewards".A while back I dug a box of old receipts, bills etc from the basement and was in the process of taking it to the recycle box in the garage when I realized it included my auto insurance policies from the mid-1970s. A little digging, and I was able to locate the VIN of my '63 vert I sold over 30 years ago! No sign of it on the C-2 registry though.
The other interesting find was in a box of old car magazines from the late 60's etc. I found THREE new, never-been-opened envelopes each containing an issue of Corvette News, the magazine GM used to put out for Vette owners. At one point I had a duplicate subscription and the dupes got set aside - I sold off the originals long ago. Can't say which issues they are but they're from around 1968 or 1969. Naturally THOSE won't get recycled, but I'm debating whether to open them and read them again, or put them up on flea-bay and see what they'll fetch.
So I guess it sometimes pays to hang on to stuff- at least until she draws the line!
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I would ban you from driving the Vette immediately until you get rid of all that junk. Draw that line Mrs. Railroadman, draw it now!
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Aww heck Don, maybe you should. I've already got Sweetsie and Sarge living in the doghouse with me.....we can make room for one more. Sarge even promised to leave the ambient lighting behind....and Sweets will go outside whenever the urge arises to jettison a hairball.
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Aww heck Don, maybe you should. I've already got Sweetsie and Sarge living in the doghouse with me.....we can make room for one more. Sarge even promised to leave the ambient lighting behind....and Sweets will go outside whenever the urge arises to jettison a hairball.
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