A couple of hundred handbags, and a couple of hundred coats? How can you even store that many, let alone use them?
I know the classical exaggerations of these items, but I had no idea someone would actually gather such a collection.
Re:The Art of Tidying Up
by kwhitefoot on Thursday January 28, 2016 @06:53AM
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Alright, I exaggerated about the coats, it just seems like hundreds, but the handbag count is literally true. Some of them are too decorative and fragile to use.
Classic media is easily organizable in a few bookcases.
A few hundred handbags and coats? That is an incredibly large number. Could that not be reduced by an order of magnitude?
So that may account for the 3000 things. Add another 3000 for the things you don't collect, and double that, and you're still not close to 300k.
Re:The Art of Tidying Up
by miguelrochefort on Monday January 25, 2016 @01:27PM
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> My wife has a couple of hundred handbags and a similar number of coats and jackets.
There aren't that many in actual stores... this can't be right.
I have that many books plus 500 CDs and 200 vinyl albums. My wife has a couple of hundred handbags and a similar number of coats and jackets.
But books are by far the largest class of thing in my house. I can't imagine having 300k items, even 30k seems rather unlikely in a house where you can see the floor!
Edit: I'm not in the US either so my house is probably smaller than the average US on though possibly larger than the other Brits commenting here; I'm in Norway.