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再见,我的“储物癖” 再见,我的“储物癖” PAGE / NUMPAGES 再见,我的“储物癖” It often takes a crisis ， major or minor ， to prompt people to change bad habits ， especially when the change is time-consuming and anxietyprovoking. The other day，the drawer in which I store myswimming stuff jammed. WhenI finally got it open and dumped out its contents ， I counted more than a dozen bathing suits （ several with their store tags 1） intact ）， 12 bathing caps ， 10 pairs of 2） goggles and countless nose clips and earplugs. Then I recalled the same thing had happened a week earlier with my drawer of pens and pencils ， literally hundreds of them， half of which were dried out or otherwise useless. 常常要有一场或轻或重的危机，才能强迫人们改掉陋习，当改变这些习惯需时耗日、令 人忧愁不安时，状况特别这样。 头几日，我用来放游泳装备的抽屉挤满东西，给卡住了。最后把它翻开时，我把里面东 西都倒了出来， 数了一下： 一共有十几套泳衣 （有几件连标签牌都还完整无缺） 、12 个泳帽、 副泳镜以及无数的鼻夹和耳塞。 这时，我想起一周前也发生过近似的事情。当时，我翻开用来放钢笔和铅笔的抽屉，里 面有几百支笔，此中有一半不是墨水已经干尽就是已经坏掉了。 And I shouldn ’t even mention my full-size freezer or 3）humongous medicine cabinet ， where things fall out every time I open them. Or my floor-to-ceiling plastic bins of yarn ， mountainhigh pile of Bubble Wrap， bags of plastic bags and shopping bags， and shelves of items I thought might be gifts for someone someday. Having just read 4）Homer Langley ， E. L. Doctorow ’ s novel about the Collyer brothers ， who were found dead in a Harlem brownstone under more than 100 tons of stuff they had accumulated ， I finally vowed to tackle my lifelong tendency to accumulate too much of nearly everything and my seeming inability to throw out anything that I considered potentially useful to me or someone else sometime in the future. Living in a three-story house with full basement made it far too easy to pursue this habit. I had plenty of storage space （ and had filled every 5 ） nook and 6 ） cranny of it ）， but often couldn ’t find things when I needed them，including clothes ， books ， articles ， even frozen food I knew I had stored somewhere. Last year I found eight unopened jars of cockt