Beloved junk: Why we can't let go of it
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Roberta Quinn’s grown children wouldn’t mind if their parents dumped the swing set that reminds her of their childhoods and put a pool in their yard. It’s not happening. (Feb. 1, 2013)
Roberta Quinn looks out her kitchen window at the children's swing set she and her husband bought in 1993. Her son and daughter are grown now, one in college and the other living out of state, and the swing set is old and weatherworn -- but, in her eyes, it's a thing of beauty. "It just makes me smile and feel happy, remembering when they were little," Quinn, 52, said, beaming. "I even remember...
