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Originally Posted by Phobia
My grandparents lived through the depression and were hoarders. They weren't hoarders of filth though. It was actually pretty clean. But the old man was in the newspaper business so he would keep all the old papers over the years. He had newspapers piled floor to ceiling all over the place. Additionally, he would go to the store and buy soda on sale - more Dr. Pepper than any person could possibly consume. Then it would sit for decades.
When he filled up one house, they just bought another and filled that one as well. Unfortunately, he didn't really hoard much of any kind of value. I'm certain we threw out some valuable newspapers but who wants to spend weeks sorting through millions of newspapers to find the ones that might be worth $50 to a collector?
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all I found of value was a small but heavy copper pipe and a 1940's silver coin. Everything else was trash, lol.