7. Share your story about collecting and be eligible for a free gift!   
      
   Do you have an interesting story to tell? Send your story to new   
   letter@tias.com and we may publish it here.  If we use your story, we'll send   
   you a handy-dandy TIAS pocket tape measure & magnifier.   
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   Here is a collecting story from Nancy F in ND. Thanks for sharing, Nancy!   
      
   My kids sometimes refer to my active collecting gene as "hoarding", but what   
   do they know!  I'm a quilter and have already warned my son about selling my   
   books at a rummage since several of them are out of print and very   
   collectable.  But my favorite sewing things to collect are the old silver   
   thimbles that have been used and used until there's a tiny hole!  I string   
   them up with a bead and make a little bell to hang on a wallhanging or the   
   edge of a curtain.  It's a nice memory of a quilter from another generation.   
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   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3   
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)