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“This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-something I just might need. Someday right?”

Book:I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

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“Generasi kempong tidak punya waktu dan tidak memiliki tradisi untuk tahu beda antara kalimat sindiran dengan bukan sindiran. Tak tahu apa itu ironi, sarkasme, sanepan, istidraj ... Generasi kempong sangat rentan terhadap apa saja, termasuk informasi ... Tidak ada etos kerja. Tidak ada ideologi dharma, atau falya’mal ‘amalan shalihan ... Yang dipunyai hanya obsesi hasil, khayal kepemilikan dan kenikmatan.”

Inspiration

Author:Emha AInun NAdjib

“As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin”

Selfishness Materialism Parenthood Hoarding

Book:The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

“What's the difference between a private library and a book hoarder?' he wonders. We are both silent before chuckling and answering in unison: 'Faeces.”

Funny Readers Hoarding Tragicomic

Book:The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Source: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

“It was the influence of the Great Depression, recycling, thriftiness, stocking up to the point of hoarding for fear of being without. ... She [Rhea Leen] remembered coming home from school before Jean [Billie Jean Parker] got off work to a cold, empty house, and finding only one can of soup in the cupboard, heating the soup and eating only half of it, saving the rest for he aunt. Rather remembered ... when her father took a job as a janitor because his savings had been wiped out in the crash of 1929 and there were no other jobs. He always distrusted banks thereafter, refusing to do business with them, preferring to bury his money in the yard. He was not alone.”

Great Depression 1930s Hoarding Thriftiness Financial Crash

Book:My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

Source: My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

“preparing before a crisis hits is responsible and selfless, but trying to accumulate necessary items during a crisis is an act of hoarding”

Hoarding Prepare

Book:Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

Source: Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“...What do you do with all your money?" "Me and the French hoard gold.”

Humor Funny Money Gold French Hoarding

Book:The Thin Man

Source: The Thin Man

“Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years.”

Moving Storage Hoarding Attic Cellar

Book:At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!”

Life Wealth Money Selfishness Hoarding

Author:Farid ud-Din Attar

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