pack rat
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“Very personal things. My roller skates from the 50s when I played street hockey in Brooklyn. I’m a pack rat and a collector. My restaurant was like my gallery, my museum.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Salamon, 68, is a journalist, author and self-described pack rat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
He had known that his mother, Sandy Quimby, a half-hour away in Eagle River, was a pack rat.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2020
He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
That side of meat had been a big one, but now there wasn’t enough meat left on the rind to interest a pack rat.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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