Answer — Exercise 3
3 - Full house·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Read the blog post about a man called Mr Trebus and answer the questions.
Answer
- Basically, anything and everything! Vacuum cleaners, old doors, windows, countless Elvis Presley records, old newspapers, kids’ toys!
- The writer is similar because the writer also finds it hard to get rid of things and has ended up with a house full of all sorts of stuff he knows, in his heart of hearts, he doesn’t really need.
- He suggests that maybe, for Mr Trebus, the roots of his collecting lie in the trauma he suffered during the war: he had to leave his hometown in Poland when the Germans invaded, and he lost everything, so maybe the collecting is a way of compensating for this. The blogger keeps things because they may be useful or valuable at some point in the future, because he / she hasn’t got round to throwing them away or can’t bear to get rid of them.