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Hello, My Name is Fran and I am a junkaholic, a pack rat. I have the genes, it's not my fault; I grew up in a household where nothing was thrown away. It was reused, restored or as in most cases just stored someplace because you just never knew when you would need something like it someday. Oh sure, I've made several attempts to break out..clean out..witness the number of times I've had the trash people drop one of those big green dipsy dumpsters in the yard. I've filled them on occasion but never really managed to get rid of EVERYTHING that seemed eligible for the landfill. I've tried garage sales too but I also seem to suffer from sellers regret at some point after the fact. what keeps someone like me going? What really keeps us from tossing something out? It all comes down to the payoff for the behavior...the times when you do need something you've hung onto and you have "it".

Such was the case yesterday. Out of the death of our superautomatic coffee maker and research into it's replacement, rose the desire to try a hand at roasting our own coffee beans. Tap tap tap...waiting for the UPS man to deliver the Ronco Home Coffee Roaster Kit and 11 pounds of green coffee beans. Ok, it's not Ronco but it makes for a good description. While researching home roasting methods (gotta love the internet), Greg found that the use of hot air popcorn poppers is THE perferred method. The West Bend Poppery II model, found in Salvation Army stores, Garage sales or Goodwill stores is tauted as being second only to the orginal Poppery. So guess who wanted me to find a Poppery II........whew....work work work. Hhhhhmmmm......my mother used a hot air popper; I have a lot of her junk I tried to garage sale and never sold and obviously never tossed. Slowly I turned, step by step...down the cellar stairs to the pile of stuff stored in the corner. (Corner is a little misleading...) I found her popper, it looked right...I turned it over but it didn't say Poppery II, sigh..nope...TA DA! *I* held the holy grail in my own two hands...yes folks..the orginal Poppery.....all togther now....ooooooooooooo.....aaahhhhh.

...and this is exactly why we never throw anything away.........