NOTHING THROWN AWAY

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 1 February 1933, Page 8

NOTHING THROWN AWAY

WOMAN’S HOARDING! CRAZE FIFTY YEARS’ ACCUMULATION, 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 tune she has never thrown a- (fling aiway. The woman would not have parted with anything even now if her possessions bad not become so numerous, that they -overflowed into the- yard and •street, and so attracted the attention of the local authority. It took seven dustmen with two carts to remoyg lici .superfluous rubbish. , . The odds-a-nd-ends stored ’up included : Twenty boxes of clothes, some of which had not been worn- for 30 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 oi broken crockery; a hundred and twenty-two odd woilen stockings. Nearly everything was carefully wrapped in- ’ brown Paper. The stockings were not only packed in pairs but each stocking had also an individual wrapping! There is a note, of tragedy m the story, for the accßniuhition- was not all rubbish; much of it would have been valuable had it been properly taken care of. . , , The woman is of Polish extraction, and among her “treasures” were a national costume made more than tiU years ago with the colours unfaded, and old Polish ’ shawls, but they fell -to pieces at a touch. The crockery, too, included fragments; of Polish ware of great interest, but it Was beyond repair. -Another queer find was- shorthand notebooks tlie woman had ■u-s.ecl when at girl.