The 1998 Spittoon Debate in the Lincoln home.

[Eva Elisabeth]

I once learned in psychology that all humans have a disposition to collect (excessively - and collecting is where we come from, we started out as hunter-gatherers). For Mary it was footstools, for others it's stamps, which are less space consuming, easier to store. I had a friend who collected hundreds of toy trains. Neither (used) stamps nor toy trains are more useful to possess than footstools, but Mary always gets the blame.