On the Street

T.J. Vollmar, Resident
"I’ve got cell phone chargers from pretty much every phone I’ve used; car chargers and wall chargers; quite a few USB cables for cameras; GPS stuff and all kinds of things that just lay around. You never know when you might need them again, not that anyone’s going to use an eight-year-old cell charger. It’s probably something inside a man that drives him to keep all these tech wires and plugs — kinda plugs him into everything, maybe."

Don Dykstra, Resident
"I have a junk drawer in my kitchen; it catches extension cords; it catches the tape dispenser ... Anything that I can’t understand where it belongs, it goes in that drawer. I don’t get rid of the stuff because I might need it some day. Occasionally you’ll stumble on something you can use again. Mostly, that would be the goofy little extension cords and stuff like that."

Bill Johnson, Resident
"I have some pails in the basement, and I have them labeled with pieces of tape. You just throw the stuff in there. I have maybe one that says TV; and another that says old phones, stuff like that. I’m a little bit organized, but I don’t know what I’m doing with most of it. I don’t know why I don’t throw it away. There’s other stuff I don’t throw away either, and my wife says, “you haven’t used that in the past few years. Get rid of it.” "