Masks?

[Earendil]

(08-24-2021, 10:14 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I was 1 year removed from watching the twin towers fall on the news, and only 5 years away from the economy going to shit right as I was about to graduate.

Well, I feel old now.

(08-24-2021, 12:50 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I mean, it's pretty standard psychology. Big events like that have lasting impacts on people. Have you never heard of people that lived through the Great Depression having a higher prevalence of hoarding behaviors?

Oh lord, yes.  My father-in-law and many of his siblings were like this.  Huge hoarders... If there was an empty space in their house, they had an uncontrollable need to fill it with something.

Then again, it might just be older people in general.  We visited some friends a while ago who are in their 70s and I thought I walked into a Cracker Barrel.  They had two sofas and five chairs in their living room. They each had a desk and a dining room table with six chairs.  All of that for two people.  That's not even counting the sixteen dressers they had spread around. (OK, that last part was an exaggeration, but you get the idea)