Boulder, Colo. — Many individuals want a storage unit or two, however Joel Haertling fills a kind of in his sleep.
The Boulder man estimates he has 5 garages and three semis, all brimming with collectibles that he has secured from yard gross sales through the years.
The “nostalgiast,” as he calls himself, truly simply wrapped up an exhibit on the Boulder Public Library known as “To Have and to Hoard.” Although that’s now closed, he was in a position to give us a tour of a few of his favourite relics.
“What the [psychologists] say is that I ‘convey individuals collectively by issues,'” stated Heartling, earlier than displaying us his assortment of pipes from Italy and France. “That is precisely it – the very best factor you are able to do is convey individuals collectively.”
There’s at the moment a documentary being made about Joel’s life, so clearly, he’s succeeding in his mission to unite individuals by admiring the previous.
Within the above story, you’ll be able to take a tour of only a fraction of his collections, and for extra data, you’ll be able to head right here.
