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What Am I Going To Do With All These Shells?
Why do we love to collect things?
Before we sold everything and moved into an RV full-time, I had a nice seashell collection. My bathroom was decorated in seashells. I had a frame made of seashells, a seashell lamp, and some large seashells hung on the wall. I had a gallon-sized glass jar filled with shells we had collected over the years that sat on the floor in the corner. Selling everything included selling all my shells.
When we were in the state of Washington last May, beginning our RV adventure, I was still convinced that I could not start collecting shells again, so I only picked up two large ones and left all the other cool shells lay on the beach right where they were. That was hard. I had never been to the Pacific Ocean before and I would have liked to pick up some of those shells and keep them.
When we left Ohio in November and went to Tybee Island, Georgia my shell collecting weakness got the best of me and I collected a quart-sized ziploc baggie full. Well — that was all it took. Now I am collecting them again everywhere we go. And not just a quart-sized baggie, but more like a gallon-sized baggie.
I realized this week, that I currently have five gallon-sized ziploc baggies full of shells, so I decided I have to go through them and save only the best ones…
