HOARDING CRAZE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 11

HOARDING CRAZE

NOTHING THROWN AWAY

; There is a woman living in a back street in Stepney, London, who has occupied the same three rooms for fifty years, and .during all that time shVh'as never thrown a thing away, states a London writer. '.' ' The woman would not liave : parted with anything even now if her possessions had not become so numerous that they•■: overflowed into .the yard and street, and so attracted the attention of the local authority.. It tppk seven dustmen with, two carts to remove her superfluous rubbish: The odds and ends stored up included twenty boxes of clothes, some of which had not been worn for thirty1 years; five boxes of old boots and shoes; three hundred empty tins, which had contained every kind of food ever canned; more than a hundredweight of broken crockery; a hundred and twenty-two odd woollen stockings. ■ ,. '■" • Nearly everything was carefully wrapped in brown .paper. The stockings:were notonly. paclced.in pairs, but each stocking had also an individual wrapping. There is a note of tragedy in the story, for the: accumulation was not all rubbish; much of it would Lave been valuable had it been properly taken care of. Tlie woman is of Polish extraction, anud among her "treasures" were a national costume made more than eighty years ago with the colours unfaded, and old Polish, shawls, but they, fell to pieces at -a touch. ..... jy The crockery, too, includedfragments of Polish, ware of great interest, but it was beyond repair. Another queer find was shorthand notebooks the woman had used when a girL