I spent all day yesterday going through stuff. Why do we (people) need so much stuff? A whole family of pioneers used to get across the country with only as much stuff as would fit in the wagon. I cringe when I think of how much money I've wasted on things that really have no value anymore. I spent hundred of dollars on WWF wrestling figures in the early '90s. I had no reason to get them other than an obsession with wrestlers and a desire to own all the figures. I wasted hours and tons of gas driving from toy store to toy store to find one I didn't yet own. Now, they sit in a box. I don't give a rat's ass about wrestling. I probably couldn't get more than $20 for them on ebay. Those Star Trek vhs tapes that I just had to have? I've maybe watched each one twice. They sat on a shelf collecting dust. Absolutely worthless now. I bet if I gave them to Goodwill, they'd probably have to trash them. Who buys vhs tapes anymore?
I'm pretty certain that DVDs will go this way eventually. As broadband connections get better, we'll be able to download to disk almost any movie we want to see instantly...or it will be on some giant server somewhere that we can access immediately though our ISPs. Even now, with services like Netflix and Blockbuster, why pay to keep hard copies of stuff around when you can have it mailed to you in a couple of days?
I've got at least eight boxes of viynl albums in storage. I wonder if they've warped by now. I've entertained the idea of ripping them all to digital, but should I really bother? I mean, I haven't listened to a vinyl album since my player broke over 10 years ago. The quality will suck. Should I just give it up? Just purchase CDs or iTunes versions of songs I really want? Most albums only ever had one good song on them anyway. I'm torn on this one.
I've got four HUGE boxes of stuffed animals—mainly teddy bears. Are there any charities out there that would accept used stuffed animals?
I spent a good portion of the day yesterday trying to find the instructions I spoke of last Thursday to the crocheted popcorn garland I was making. I'm pretty sure it was in a craft magazine. The problem: I have three whole bookcase shelves full of craft magazines and patterns. If I live to be 100, I'll never produce a fraction of those projects. When we moved a few years ago, I had weeded out a lot of the magazines that didn't have projects I would ever do. It's time to do that again.
Marcus and I brought a bunch of stuff from storage two nights ago to throw in the dumpster. Some jerkwad was rifling through the dumpter and left a lot of that stuff laying on the ground. If someone can get use of our garbage, more power to them, but I wish they wouldn't leave a mess for someone else to clean up behind in their wake.
OK, that's if for now...gonna go look through and trash more stuff.
I'm pretty certain that DVDs will go this way eventually. As broadband connections get better, we'll be able to download to disk almost any movie we want to see instantly...or it will be on some giant server somewhere that we can access immediately though our ISPs. Even now, with services like Netflix and Blockbuster, why pay to keep hard copies of stuff around when you can have it mailed to you in a couple of days?
I've got at least eight boxes of viynl albums in storage. I wonder if they've warped by now. I've entertained the idea of ripping them all to digital, but should I really bother? I mean, I haven't listened to a vinyl album since my player broke over 10 years ago. The quality will suck. Should I just give it up? Just purchase CDs or iTunes versions of songs I really want? Most albums only ever had one good song on them anyway. I'm torn on this one.
I've got four HUGE boxes of stuffed animals—mainly teddy bears. Are there any charities out there that would accept used stuffed animals?
I spent a good portion of the day yesterday trying to find the instructions I spoke of last Thursday to the crocheted popcorn garland I was making. I'm pretty sure it was in a craft magazine. The problem: I have three whole bookcase shelves full of craft magazines and patterns. If I live to be 100, I'll never produce a fraction of those projects. When we moved a few years ago, I had weeded out a lot of the magazines that didn't have projects I would ever do. It's time to do that again.
Marcus and I brought a bunch of stuff from storage two nights ago to throw in the dumpster. Some jerkwad was rifling through the dumpter and left a lot of that stuff laying on the ground. If someone can get use of our garbage, more power to them, but I wish they wouldn't leave a mess for someone else to clean up behind in their wake.
OK, that's if for now...gonna go look through and trash more stuff.
Name: LaDonna
