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Warren DeMontague

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7. I'm one of those "might need it someday" people.

Reply to Denninmi (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 03:09 PM

Apr 2013

but to be fair, I'm also the sort of person who every once in a while is called upon to build a working refrigerator out of twine and old bits of styrofoam.

Invariably when I go "ah, I'll never need this" I end up needing it 6 months later, for something.

That said, I do work on throwing stuff out. And every once in a while, doing a massive unloading of crap. It's cathartic.

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