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Object-ives #34: My Mother’s Photographs
Why I’ve held on to photos of a woman who was cruel to me as a child
5 hrs ago • Dianne Moritz
Dumpsters and Other Dark Places
What you’ll consider when your children don’t have enough
May 7 • Hope Elizabeth Kidd
Listen to Our New Podcast Finders and Keepers
Our podcast on our attachments to our belongings: a world-traveling teddy bear, Costco shopping, Deesha Philyaw's book collection, baby items and…
May 6 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel
What to Do with Things We Inherit and How We Preserve Our Children’s Earliest Moments with Emily Hessney Lynch
Finders and Keepers Episode 4
May 6 • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Emily Hessney Lynch
52:17
How Bestselling Author Deesha Philyaw Builds Her Book Collection and Became an Avid Reader
Finders and Keepers Episode 3
May 6 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel
45:39
The Allure of Costco and Bulk Shopping with American Bulk author Emily Mester
Finders and Keepers Episode 2
May 6 • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Emily Mester
1:15:18
Meet The World-Traveling Teddy Bear Jointly Owned by This Friend Group
Finders and Keepers, the podcast about our attachments to our belongings, interviews a friend group who've jointly owned a teddy bear for over 25 years.
May 6 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel
48:53
Mom Hoarder Extraordinaire
An excerpt from Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead by Angela Nissel
May 5 • Open Secrets Magazine
In This Timeline
On loving someone I couldn't save
May 4 • Tiffany Chu
We're Launching the Finders and Keepers Podcast This Week - Here's the Trailer!
Listen now | Why Rachel Kramer Bussel is launching a podcast about our emotional attachments to our belongings
May 4 • Open Secrets Magazine and Rachel Kramer Bussel
2:57
Object-ives #33: The Bracelet My Mother Bought Me
The Christmas gift I always hate
May 3 • rr blackwood
The Magic of Making
How I spin things around
May 2 • Alicia Morandi
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