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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
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How to Pack Your Breakables for Moving House
In the 18th century, there were no cardboard boxes. You would just throw your entire kitchen's worth of breakables into your toilet and then move out weekend at NYU. And then at your new location, you would find the local potter on your block and have them make you a whole bunch of new kitchen stuff. So that is the reason why in our privy, we found thousands of pots. Many of them clearly were whole when they went in. We're not sort of smashed in a drunken stupor or broken by butter fingered, you know, house servants or anything like that. It disposable material culture is not unique to our society. It's been going on for
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