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An Ode to the Tie Collectors

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How many tie boxes do you actually have at home? I am asking because I have a lot of them. And since we have a lot of tie boxes , it shows that the number of neckties that we have at home has gone from the normal number of neckties to necktie hoarding. O yes, we have heard a lot of things about collectors . People consider them crazy, because they store a lot of things without any need (I can tell you that of all the ties that I have there are a few that I never used but for two to three times), people call them extravagant buyers because they buy things that they do not need at all, people call them inconsiderate because they do not pass the useless items to other people who can actually use them and people call them lazy and untidy for letting years old mess occupy their home. Yet: I have been a tie collector and I will always remain, even Freud cannot stop me from collecting them. He said that collectors are people who want to compensate for the loss of bowel control and the