What to do with an old typewriter? I found my grandfather's Underwood S40 on a shelf last Tuesday and it was covered in dust so thick that when I lifted the carriage cap a small cloud of gray particulate just hung there for about three seconds like i

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I'm a keeper of things and it's probably going to sound weird but I have this drawer in my kitchen that just contains paper receipts from everywhere — old concert tickets, train passes from trips ten years ago, even a napkin with some notes on it from a friend at dinner in 2014. Every once in a while I find one and something comes back which is the whole point of keeping them really. My dad was exactly like this and he had an entire attic box dedicated to what he called his "evidence" because as kids we used to collect things that were important to us but then grew up into people who threw everything away for convenience, so I think it's worth asking yourself which category each object falls into before you let it go — is this a thing I might need one day or is it just heavy and taking up space?

A little bit of both honestly. The typewriter is definitely a keeper — it's part of