Junk!
Lots and lots
of collected crap.
Purchasing refers to a business or organization attempting
to acquire goods or services to accomplish the goals
of the enterprise. Though there are several organizations
that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process,
processes can vary greatly between organizations. Typically
the word “purchasing” is not used interchangeably
with the word “procurement”, since procurement
typically includes Expediting, Supplier Quality, and
Traffic and Logistics (T&L) in addition to Purchasing.
Scrap may refer to anything that is leftover. For example,
a lumber yard may sell left over bits of wood from
manufacturing as scrap. When instructed to feed the
chickens "scraps", popular children's literature
character Amelia Bedelia confusedly gives them fabric
remnants instead of leftover foods. Scrap is commonly
used to describe recyclable materials of monetary value
that are separated from trash or salvaged.
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating,
acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing,
and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the
individual collector. Some collectors are generalists,
accumulating merchandise, or stamps from all countries
of the world. Others focus on a subtopic within their
area of interest, perhaps 19th century postage stamps,
milk bottle labels from Sussex, or Mongolian harnesses
and tack.
The items collectors collect may be antique, or simply
collectible. Antiques are collectible items at least
100 years old; collectibles are less than antique,
and may even be new. Collectors and dealers may use
the word vintage to describe older collectibles. Most
collectibles are man-made commercial items, but some
private collectors collect natural objects such as
birds' eggs, butterflies, rocks, and seashells...
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