The View From My Windshield: “Honey, We’re Hoarders!”

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Truth in Advertising: Shenandoah, Virginia—“I was just watchin’ that movie the other day. You know, that movie, Hoarders,” says this sign's owner. “I turned to my wife and said, 'honey, we're hoarders!'" (Photo: Tim Murphy).Truth in Advertising: Shenandoah, Virginia—“I was just watchin’ that movie the other day. You know, that movie, Hoarders,” says this sign’s owner. That’s when his collection of glass coke bottles, coffee mugs, boxes of cereal, and bound volumes of Popular Science suddenly made sense: “I turned to my wife and said, ‘honey, we’re hoarders!'” (Photo: Tim Murphy).

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