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raymond - 2005-01-01 19:08:40 I can't bring myself to throw away anything with emotional value. Letters, photos, something from someone long ago--all that stays, forming a decades-long inexorably rising tide of stuff. I would respectfully say, however, that even if I were contemplating pitching old photos I doubt the Hysterical Museum would be interested in a minutely detailed photographic record of one of my bad-hair phases (as if there's been more than one).* * * * * * * * * * * * Tuesday - 2005-01-01 23:27:36 NO Wire Hangers!* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-02 00:14:44 Dear Tuesday, I take it you don't want some of the hundreds of surplus wire hangers I impatiently stuffed, in a giant wiry tangle, into trashbags today. I don't blame you. I like plastic hangers, that at least have a bit of body to them, but the tangly mess of five trillion wire hangers drove me crazy. The closet is nice and neat now, with things nicely hung up on "good" hangers and the (washed) shelves neatly stacked with various quilts and pj's. Much better. Things were really out of control in there. My feng shui is looking up.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-02 00:20:17 Oh, and, Raymond, I have persnickety files going back a decade or more with every electric bill, water bill, tax return, and ancient insurance policies on cars I no longer even own, sorted by year, for posterity I guess. I dunno. There's something nostalgic (isn't there?) about an old car insurance policy from the old Geo Metro I loved so dearly, and the time in my life it represented (freewheeling single, like, um, now). Or maybe I'm just a bit off.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura again - 2005-01-02 00:26:01 When the Geo was totalled by some doofus, I saved various bits of it, including the rear-view mirror and a grey plastic knob that let the back seat down. I loved that car. I couldn't tell you where in the house those 2 items reside, but they're here somewhere. I'll never be able to move, with such packratitus.* * * * * * * * * * * * Hanger - 2005-01-03 12:01:36 wire bad, plastic good, wood best. When in doubt. Throw it out.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-03 12:03:35 I never guessed that wire hangers would prove to be such a fertile topic...makes me want to create a whole new post just on wire hangers. :)* * * * * * * * * * * * Iss - 2005-01-03 21:24:09 Dear Wad......where in your house is the rocking chair? I can't picture it at all. Glad you like the CDs. Did you know that the Chinese have a belief that the state your house is in at New Year's is the way your year will follow? I have fiercely believed that for all my adult years....and have spent many Dec 31sts frantically doing laundry and emptying trash. But then there's the whole Chinese New Year and calendar, so, I guess I'm screwed, eps. looking at the house today.......* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-04 10:27:57 Dear Sis: the rockin' chair is next to the aquarium. You know, the bentwood chair with the busted-out bottom held tenuously together with string and disguised by a cushion. That one. Oh, now, your house always looks nice, don't be silly. Always neat and inviting.* * * * * * * * * * * * Iss - 2005-01-04 14:58:17 Oh, yeah, now I know. Is the chair a metaphor for anything? * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-04 14:59:33 Yes. It's a metaphor for the role of antidisestablishmentarianism in postmodern windfarms.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-04 14:59:57 just teasing, kiddo.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura again, to Iss - 2005-01-04 15:04:34 (that's actually a very shrewd observation, considering what we talked about recently on ot-hay ail-may).* * * * * * * * * * * * Tuesday - 2005-01-11 14:38:45 Heh, the wire hanger bit was in reference to that movie Mommy Dearest. Funny you should mention all that about saving old stuff. I just went through my files and got rid of tons of stuff I don't know why I was saving. It feels good to get rid of that stuff; like my psyche feels lighter or something. It's good too because I'll be moving away from Ypsi (sob) in a few months. The less to move the better.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |