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<p>[QUOTE="Finnclouds, post: 9741170, member: 84680"]I know someone like that. Though far from a spring chicken, he gets up at three AM to be the first in line for an estate sale that starts at eight. Even in the middle of the winter. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can’t stand lines or crowds, so I’m lucky I get my dopamine highs from solving puzzles and finding answers. I don’t sell and seldom buy anything these days, because I don’t want to leave mountains of curios for my kids to sort out. I barely survived the downsizing from a house to a city flat when we moved across the Atlantic. Deciding what to keep ( baby clothes, loved-to-pieces stuffed animals? 70’s perfume bottles and almost unworn stilettos? Disney videos from the eighties? tons of books? husband’s woodworking tools?) gave me suicide migraines as we had to fit everything into a 20 ft ocean container. I don’t wish that to my worst enemy. </p><p><br /></p><p>The boards are addictive, too, because they are a community you can join in your pyjamas, round the clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finnclouds, post: 9741170, member: 84680"]I know someone like that. Though far from a spring chicken, he gets up at three AM to be the first in line for an estate sale that starts at eight. Even in the middle of the winter. I can’t stand lines or crowds, so I’m lucky I get my dopamine highs from solving puzzles and finding answers. I don’t sell and seldom buy anything these days, because I don’t want to leave mountains of curios for my kids to sort out. I barely survived the downsizing from a house to a city flat when we moved across the Atlantic. Deciding what to keep ( baby clothes, loved-to-pieces stuffed animals? 70’s perfume bottles and almost unworn stilettos? Disney videos from the eighties? tons of books? husband’s woodworking tools?) gave me suicide migraines as we had to fit everything into a 20 ft ocean container. I don’t wish that to my worst enemy. The boards are addictive, too, because they are a community you can join in your pyjamas, round the clock.[/QUOTE]
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