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Can you explain the sentence for me?

 
 
Nancy88
 
Reply Thu 16 Dec, 2010 01:54 am
What stuff? I can‘t remember. Just stuff. Like packing peanuts. You don’t really know what to do with them, you just save them. Because you might need them someday. When you could just as easily use crumpled newspaper or plastic bags or popcorn.
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Reply Thu 16 Dec, 2010 04:06 am
@Nancy88,
Well, that's actually seven sentences (although three are incomplete).

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What stuff? I can‘t remember. Just stuff. Like packing peanuts. You don’t really know what to do with them, you just save them. Because you might need them someday. When you could just as easily use crumpled newspaper or plastic bags or popcorn.


The first three refer to some unspecified items, which are commonly referred to in the American language as "stuff." Packing peanuts refers to styrofoam packing material which is often found in a form about the size of roasted peanuts in the shell . . .

http://sustainabledesignupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/packing-peanuts-via-kartooner.jpg

The last two sentences refer to keeping such packing materials because you might use it someday, although it would be just as easy to use other materials to pack something into a box.
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