Snake is a bi-weekly email newsletter covering two stupid things available for only money. This week: old military duct tape and a Kalff mushroom lamp. Subscribe now or feel shame. eBay: 1940s WWII US Vulcanizing tape: Gotta say, this tape looks pretty good for 70 years old. I assumed most duct tape rolls wouldn't make it past a couple winters. Every time I think I'm too deep in collecting--my to-tailor bag is taller than my sister, I on accident bought four issues of a single Lightning magazine four different times because I liked the sled on the cover--I check myself. WWII collectors, the types that might--that have--amass(ed) this, or buy the above or similar items in bulk because they know another flea market freak who has indeed sold 70-year-old duct tape to ... whoever, are worse(1). Like Herb and Dorothy Vogel but with worse taste. Or the opposite? I'm told, by people who are out of my life, that there's a wafer-thin line between hard-core collecting and being a hoarder. I don't believe them. Is the woman or man who makes enough money to pay their water bill selling FDR-era duct tape on eBay on the side a hoarder, with social issues? The storage space of old duct tape hints to that. Or a profiteer? CF, the water bill. Or a woman or man of fine taste? Or ... the scion of a felled duct tape company? While I doubt the tape works, following the warren of related items, as defined by eBay's bottom-page algorithm, to its logical conclusion, one finds:
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Snake is a bi-weekly email newsletter covering two stupid things available for only money. This week: old military duct tape and a Kalff mushroom lamp. Subscribe now or feel shame. eBay: 1940s WWII US Vulcanizing tape: Gotta say, this tape looks pretty good for 70 years old. I assumed most duct tape rolls wouldn't make it past a couple winters. Every time I think I'm too deep in collecting--my to-tailor bag is taller than my sister, I on accident bought four issues of a single Lightning magazine four different times because I liked the sled on the cover--I check myself. WWII collectors, the types that might--that have--amass(ed) this, or buy the above or similar items in bulk because they know another flea market freak who has indeed sold 70-year-old duct tape to ... whoever, are worse(1). Like Herb and Dorothy Vogel but with worse taste. Or the opposite? I'm told, by people who are out of my life, that there's a wafer-thin line between hard-core collecting and being a hoarder. I don't believe them. Is the woman or man who makes enough money to pay their water bill selling FDR-era duct tape on eBay on the side a hoarder, with social issues? The storage space of old duct tape hints to that. Or a profiteer? CF, the water bill. Or a woman or man of fine taste? Or ... the scion of a felled duct tape company? While I doubt the tape works, following the warren of related items, as defined by eBay's bottom-page algorithm, to its logical conclusion, one finds: