In the process of cleaning out a cupbaord at home i happened upon lots of my old doodles and writings from when i was below the age of 7.
The thing that interests me is that this is mostly tat and to be honest i would throw it out and make way from more CDs However i know there are people (ergo my mother) who would wish to keep this stuff, so the question is, when does old crap become heirlooms and memories and when is it just crap?
I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virility...And those Pink elephants I'd see.
If you have any doubts about throwing anything away. Well then its not crap anymore.
I've got a pile of old drawings which I just can't throw away.
The scary thing is that the pile just keeps growing.
I have however thrown away letters and other stuff which seem to be more important at the expense of my drawings and cartoons. Most being made during the boring lectures recieved at both school and uni. So they are sentimental somewhat.
If I can't decide if something is "crap" or "treasured memory" - I just put them in a box I keep for that very purpose.
Once every year (mostly around my birthday) I open the box and throw away all those things I've never even thought of the last year - and keep the rest as "treasured".
Famous Last Words:
"You can't kill me 'cause I've got magic armoraaaaargh !"
"They're only kobolds!"
So he kills kittens? Nothing to fear about that. (CM about Foul on SYM)
"Hey Beldin ! I don't like your face !"
"Nevermore."
Originally posted by Tamerlane If you have any doubts about throwing anything away. Well then its not crap anymore.
I have however thrown away letters and other stuff which seem to be more important at the expense of my drawings and cartoons. Most being made during the boring lectures recieved at both school and uni. So they are sentimental somewhat.
Interesting theory
I have folders full of little doodles, mostly just characatures, all of them bad, but all hold a kind of romanticism
@Beldin, that is a good idea
I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virility...And those Pink elephants I'd see.
Originally posted by Beldin If I can't decide if something is "crap" or "treasured memory" - I just put them in a box I keep for that very purpose.
Once every year (mostly around my birthday) I open the box and throw away all those things I've never even thought of the last year - and keep the rest as "treasured".
I going to have to steal your idea.
Hope I remember where everything is in one years time.
Famous Last Words:
"You can't kill me 'cause I've got magic armoraaaaargh !"
"They're only kobolds!"
So he kills kittens? Nothing to fear about that. (CM about Foul on SYM)
"Hey Beldin ! I don't like your face !"
"Nevermore."
Famous Last Words:
"You can't kill me 'cause I've got magic armoraaaaargh !"
"They're only kobolds!"
So he kills kittens? Nothing to fear about that. (CM about Foul on SYM)
"Hey Beldin ! I don't like your face !"
"Nevermore."
Famous Last Words:
"You can't kill me 'cause I've got magic armoraaaaargh !"
"They're only kobolds!"
So he kills kittens? Nothing to fear about that. (CM about Foul on SYM)
"Hey Beldin ! I don't like your face !"
"Nevermore."
hmpf, its not a theory. Its a fact. For example that 60meg hardrive that i have around here somewhere is definatly going to be of great use someday.
LOL! I have just given my little brother an old 233 processor I hadn't got around to disposing of! - he thinks it so fast compared to the Pentium 1 he was using!
I am a hoarder sometimes In one sense I go with what Beldin said and put things away - if you don't get said things out of the box over a period of time, it is probably worthless That said - it is also nice to rediscover items you had forgotten you had! Maybe this is why I take nearly a year to process photos - it is so much fun trying to remember taking those shots...being reminded of a day/event that had slipped your mind etc etc. The downside of this, is when family/friends want up to date photos of the kids I have none
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I never throw anything away. I am not a hoarder, because i do not think that any of my stuf is particularly valuable, and it's not that I can't bare to be without all the **** all over my floor. My mother always tells me that it is useless to let all the old crap pile up, because the good stuff will be lost forever, but the fact is, I never stress about having lost something. When my six-year old doodlings get chucked on the floor I forget about them, and as far as I'm concerned, I do not care about something which I can forget about so easily. the only stuff I couldn't throw away is the useful stuff that I do stuff with all the time.
On the sentimentality front however, that is a different thing entirely. At the moment I am making a book for the future. This is because a while ago I found a little scrap book in my dad's garage that was full of cute and lovely poems and drawings and quotes from these kids who were around in 1931. I dunno who they were. I am filling my book with current major affairs, and social commentary and poems and objects and letters of great sentimental value to me, as well as kind of letters to whoever gets it. I think it is interesting to write to somebody who doesn't exist yet, and no more stupid than writing to people in foreign countries who you will never meet. I think it will be fascinating for a kid in 2073 to find this book and have a clip from my outdated life.
'Men, they build towers to their passing yes, to their fame everlasting
Here he comes chopping and reaping, hear him laugh at their cheating'
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Unfortunately, our house was burned down to the ground in 1995 so I guess all of them were taken cared of.
To use your word, Sleepy, if such thing is symbolically compelling once you've held it in your hands again, it's not crap.
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However i know there are people (ergo my mother) who would wish to keep this stuff, so the question is, when does old crap become heirlooms and memories and when is it just crap?
