Oh my GOD, I cannot throw anything away. Unpacking sucks worse than anything.
Will someone please explain to me why I still am hanging on to the following things:
1. Navy blue polyester leisure suit (three piece!) that belonged to my grandmother, with hand-applied bedazzling brass accents
2. Citizens of Humanity jeans I haven't been able to squeeze my ass into since 2007
3. Fairly large pez collection
4. Photos documenting everything I have ever done in my entire life, carefully cataloged and placed in albums coded by year
5. One pair of electric blue false eyelashes
6. Mini gold buddha whose arm broke off sometime between college and the birth of my kid
Tell me, am I crazy for hanging on to this stuff? What random items can't you seem to part with, no matter how logical it might seem???
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"3. Fairly large pez collection"
ReplyDeleteIf you mean dispensers, KEEP THEM! If you mean the candy itself, the humidity will dissolve them.
I keep my IBM PC keyboard, 1983 vintage, because I like the clicky keyboard. It doesn't work with any modern computer. It's just the keyboard by itself.
Xl, you can get an adapter and software to allow the use of your keyboard.
ReplyDelete1. You love your Grandmother.
2. Start walking, sweating, and eating right. You can fit in to those jeans again. Just don't wear them outside of the house.
3. I am also assuming Pez dispensers. You can get a fairly tidy sum for them on eBay. Assuming that it is a large enough collection, of course.
4. You know those photos are slowly dying, and will die ever faster in the humidity. I would sincerely suggest you convert those photos to digital form, and put them on a back up hard drive, as well as on a "cloud", such as Flickr.
5. ... I've got nothing.
6. It's not the object, it's the object's story. It's been with you for decades. There's a reason primitive people have totems.
my girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteWow. Yeah, I'm glad I don't need to sleep with him, Kris... I might smother him with a pillow.
ReplyDeleteHey, those things all sound pretty cool to me. You've gotta keep the pics, and the granny suit will be fun for the kid to dress up in. Broken tchotkes can be used in art projects. Also, don't give up on the jeans. You never know, you could come down with a case of raging anorexia and then you'd regret having tossed them out. And what girl doesn't need a pair of electric blue eyelashes? Better hang on to those so you can wear them to Mardi Gras next year.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm a terrible pack rat so if you want to disregard this advice in order to avoid appearing on a future episode of Horders, I completely understand.
Sounds like things are going well. The two of you guys together ought to make for some quite entertaining blog readin'. I'm loving the pic in the header. Perfect! That's a damn clever name you got there too. ;b
Get rid of 2, 3 and 6.
ReplyDelete1 will be impressive to wear out if you have the confidence to pull it off.
4 yeah scan them, but its nice to flip through photo albums and they may disappear, Debbie Downer, but not in your lifetime.
5 as soon as you toss the eyelashes you're gonna need them.
keep the suit. it WILL come "back"
ReplyDeletekeep the lashes- HELLO!!!! HALLOWE'EN MUCH?
ditch the buddha
scooter may not need to sleep with me. but i know he wants to. i can see it in his eyes.
ReplyDeleteI think those things are all cool to keep, apart from Buddha. Unless you have his arm and you can superglue it back on. OR... better yet, take a G.I. Joe's arm and glue THAT to him. The only thing cooler than a deity is a deity who can kick ASS.
ReplyDeleteThe Pez dispensers will be worth something toward Lil's college tuition. I can't beleive the stuff I see in antique stores today that we took for granted back in the 1900's.
ReplyDeleteJeremy on the other hand.... you could sell his blood, his seed or a kidney.
One of these days you'll be grateful for those photos documenting everything you've ever done. I think there are no more than 5 photos of me doing anything at all in the entire world. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I can see keeping is the pez collection.
ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard reading this. I come by my packrat nature honestly. My parents...Daddy was military so we lived around the globe. I have crap from my life, their lives, probably from the time of Moses. You have your photos catalogued? Much admiration for you, honey. I have the staples from my first c-section almost 20 years ago and a box of broken pieces (arms, legs, beads, etc.)that I swear one day I'll fix. Wonderful post.
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