In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
The wisdom of life
NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY
because
IT MIGHT COME IN
and
HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION

Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little
preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the
embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have
been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come
his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three
samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight,
and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains
immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types.
This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW
ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN!

and the box of string carefully labelled "String - too short to be any use."

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle