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[neadods]

I am Nea, and I endorse this message: 56 Things You Can Toss Out Now. (Check the links at the bottom too. Courtesy homekeeping, that wonderful and somewhat life-changing community.)

For those who follow the Clutter Chronicles, (ooo, I may have a new tag name), there hasn't been a Sunday 7 because of the surprisingly severe readjustment to life with the new job. It's about all I can do to keep up with normal cleaning. Next week won't be any better, but I'm hoping that the week after that things will have settled down into the new normal routine.

On the fannish side of things, I also endorse persiflage_1's discovery of the glory of Harry Sullivan (the first doctor to be dissed by the Doctor), with the two crackalicious vids linked.

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[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that list is fantastic! And I'm so guilty of a bunch of them! Though I'm not throwing out silver that was handed down to me. They're being used and makes my room pretty!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Used is different! It's at least serving a purpose used!

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Ha! I found the stash of my mother's mother's table linen this afternoon. It's somewhat higher quality than crocheted doilies but I should probably still chuck most of it out. Sigh. It's taken a month but my brother and I are finally throwing out the last of the rubbish and I forsee tough decisions in our immediate future. Thank you for the link.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

I don't know which is harder - tossing your own stuff, or tossing someone else's.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind my intention to move house, I've been doing both simultaneously. When I throw out an item of my father's and I know I have something similar unused at home then I chuck it out as soon as I get back.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's a really good way of handling it.

My mother had to go through her father and sister's stuff; I think it's one of the reasons why my parents have been slowly but steadily paring their things down for a while.

[lagilman]

13. Every little zippy bag that came with a Clinique purchase.

*snort* Guilty! (but... I can find a use for it! I can! No, after the first three, you can't. And they're ugly, anyway)

28. College text books

Bah. I was a history major. I still use my textbooks. Only now I call them reference books...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Those things are beyond ugly and well into fugly. And they're too nasty to want to touch and too oddly shaped to put anything else into.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

totally OT, but *icon love.*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Isn't it a fab icon? I stole the base and don't know who to credit. I'm thinking of making it my default closer to the election.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

That'd be awesome. :) You should put it on a t-shirt and confuse the normals. ;P

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Oh, and speaking of the glory that is Harry Sullivan-- doesn't the Apollo Belvedere bear a bit of a resemblance? http://www.nickwinter.com/journeys/images/europe/italy/rome/apollo.jpg

[drho.livejournal.com]

Thanks a fantastic article. I am guilty of so many of those things.

[nemo-wistar.livejournal.com]

I'm never going to throw out my (relevant) old college textbooks. I still use them today, as well as my notes :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I looked at my notes last year, boggled that I'd actually taken a course in Medieval Taxation, and figured that I hadn't looked at them in 15 years was A Sign.

[nemo-wistar.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Lord :) ... okay, well, maybe engineering is a different animal.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Woah! WOAH!
I use my breadmaker religiously. Damnit.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's my take on (some of) the "56 things" article:

1. All the hotel key cards you’ve brought home with you.
O_o Who does that? You turn them back in when you check out. If you happen to forget and find one in your pocket later, you throw it away -- the hotel buys these things by the case, specifically because it doesn't matter if a guest leaves with one by mistake; they cost pennies apiece.

2. The doilies your Aunt Edna crocheted 35 years ago that got handed down to you.
Okay, we've got some stuff like that. In particular, Russ' mother left him a pile of very nice vintage fabric, which should really not be thrown away; we should instead find a local theatrical costumer who'd be willing to take it off our hands.

Stuff from relatives is easier for me to toss than white-elephant gifts from friends... but I usually manage to get rid of the latter after 4 or 5 years.

3. CDs you haven’t listened to in three years or more.
4. The boxes of cassettes you’ve been meaning to transfer to CDs.
(Nitpick: no apostrophe in CDs; it's a plural, not a possessive or contraction.)
I'm culling my CD collection as I transfer them into iTunes, and I am actually transferring my tapes to CD/iTunes as well. But I'm not getting rid of anything that I still like, no matter how rarely I listen to it. Bite me.

5. The bread maker. Seriously. When was the last time you made bread?
Three days ago. We go thru about 2 loaves in 3 weeks. Again, bite me.

6. Your wedding dress
I've tried to sell that once already, and ran foul of "the style is for white this year" (it's candlelight). I should try again -- but damned if I'm going to just throw it away.

7. Credit card bills from 1995.
No credit cards, no bills. Even when I had credit cards, I kept the bills with the rest of the tax/financial stuff, which went back only 7 years (because I'm paranoid) -- after 7 years, they have to prove intentional fraud to come after you.

8. The Allen wrenches from every piece of IKEA furniture you ever assembled.
Somebody must really like expensive, trendy furniture. Goes with all those credit-card bills, I guess.

13. Every little zippy bag that came with a Clinique purchase.
In my case, that would be clear vinyl zipper bags from things like comforters. I need to cull that drawer; keeping 1 or 2 makes sense, but not 10 of them!

17. Every single regretful lipstick color you bought on a whim.
Yeah, time for a makeup cull, too.

18. Your last four cell phones and all their chargers and blue teeth.
Make that Russ' 3 or 4 boxes of dead computer bits, most of which are boat anchors by now. We're working on that.

20. The Spode Christmas plates and mugs you don’t like. (Along with the Christmas bath towels and welcome mat.)
35. The “good silver” you don’t use that was passed down to you.
Wait, didn't she cover that in #2?

50. Record albums.
Better disposed of to Half Price Books, or a similar outlet. Same with any CDs from #3. Yeah, you'll get only a pittance for them -- but that's better than throwing them away, for which you get nothing.

Overall: meh, and she makes a lot of assumptions about my life and lifestyle that are anywhere from hilarious to downright insulting.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Who does that?

Oddly, I have. I had quite a collection of Media*West keys for a while, because I always forgot to turn it in and always thought I'd take it back to the hotel next year.

4. The boxes of cassettes you’ve been meaning to transfer to CDs.

YMMV. I've got some fairly rare stuff on cassette, and have no intention of tossing it. But I don't have to think every point applies to me to like the whole list.

clear vinyl zipper bags from things like comforters

Send them to me, I use them all the time!

she makes a lot of assumptions about my life and lifestyle that are anywhere from hilarious to downright insulting.

Again YMMV. I saw enough that echoed with me to pass the link on.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

keep the CDs as a master for when 1) your computer hard drive dies, 2) you have so much more space (hard drives are cheap) you choose to rip them at a higher resolution for better quality, and/or 3) mp3s get replaced by some newer technology that EVERYBODY has to have so its the one way to avoid having to buy The White Album again. mp3 may be ubiquitous right now, but 15 years ago, so was VHS.

Now, if the cases and shelf space are a problem, get some 100-pack folders and/or boxes and put them all in nice envelopes, yada yada.