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Erma Bombeck

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

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The author’s mother kept every cardboard box instead of throwing them away, preventing them from being recycled or reused by others. As a result, they still have boxes from stores that have been closed for two decades, showing how long she held onto them.

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