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moonwiseIt is astonishing how much junk one can accumulate. I have wedding gifts from eleven years ago that are in their original packaging. It is beyond time for a garage sale, so I can unburden myself of the following:
1. Cosplays. My conning days are probably over, so perhaps someone else will want to dress up like Anna Williams or Seung Mina. Or, not. My skillz in the sewing area are far from expert. The only considerations that keep me from binning all of it are 1. I spent an awful lot of time and $$$ on these and 2. my husband made some of the weapons, so he might not be too pleased to see them end up in the trash, either. I doubt anyone else is going to want to dress up as Yoshi, though.
2. Other assorted sewing stuff. Patterns. Fat quarters I am not going to use, ever, because I won't have time to quilt again until JP goes off to college.
3. Wedding gifts. I am probably never going to use that chip'n'dip set. Or a Belleek gravy boat (it doesn't match anything else.) Or a footed cake plate. Or a salad bowl. Or a Lenox holiday wine holder (??????) Or any one of about six lead crystal vases.
4. Baking and decorating items. I have approximately 1,000,000 cookie cutters. These were great when I had more time to bake and decorate cookies (like, about thirteen years ago, for about a week.) It doesn't help that my BIL used to work for Williams-Sonoma, so every holiday and birthday he would give me a big haul of WS stuff that was very very nice but ended up on the shelf. Also on my shelves are useless things like a worn-out Foreman grill (WHY do we still have this, when I have an ACTUAL GRILL in the backyard, plus a panini press) and a GranPappy deep fryer I bought when I was convinced I would make torta fritta more often. (Times I have made torta fritta since buying the fryer: 0.)
5. The Lenox Windswept crystal my mother bought me when I was sixteen. This is a lesson in why you should never consult a teenager in matters of taste. This pattern was trendy at the time, and I thought it was just faboo, and now it's embarrassing because it's so very, very eighties and ffs it's frosted. (So was my hair, at the time.) My mother thought I should start amassing my wedding crystal for some reason, and now I have four or five large boxes of flutes, wine and water glasses, and lord knows what else that I will never put on my table. Plain crystal wine glasses are fine, plus my husband and I tag-team excellently in the Dropping Things on the Floor department.
6. Stuff my grandmother left me. My father's mother had a lot of stuff, most of it of sentimental value only, and because no one else in the family wanted to be the one who threw it out, they gave it to me. Then my aunt Anne, who took a lot of that stuff, would decide she didn't want it after all (but she didn't want to throw it out either) and gave it to me as well until I told her to stop giving me Grandma's junk. Right now, among other things, I have a heavily tarnished silverplate tea service, highly unattractive crewelwork flowers in frames, and a dusty, sad-looking samurai doll (I named him Hiroshi) who looks like he's been drinking.
7.My doujishi collection WAIT NO NEVAAARRRRRRRRRR
Either way, it would be great to get rid of some of this stuff before my cellar looks even more like an episode of Hoarders. :/
1. Cosplays. My conning days are probably over, so perhaps someone else will want to dress up like Anna Williams or Seung Mina. Or, not. My skillz in the sewing area are far from expert. The only considerations that keep me from binning all of it are 1. I spent an awful lot of time and $$$ on these and 2. my husband made some of the weapons, so he might not be too pleased to see them end up in the trash, either. I doubt anyone else is going to want to dress up as Yoshi, though.
2. Other assorted sewing stuff. Patterns. Fat quarters I am not going to use, ever, because I won't have time to quilt again until JP goes off to college.
3. Wedding gifts. I am probably never going to use that chip'n'dip set. Or a Belleek gravy boat (it doesn't match anything else.) Or a footed cake plate. Or a salad bowl. Or a Lenox holiday wine holder (??????) Or any one of about six lead crystal vases.
4. Baking and decorating items. I have approximately 1,000,000 cookie cutters. These were great when I had more time to bake and decorate cookies (like, about thirteen years ago, for about a week.) It doesn't help that my BIL used to work for Williams-Sonoma, so every holiday and birthday he would give me a big haul of WS stuff that was very very nice but ended up on the shelf. Also on my shelves are useless things like a worn-out Foreman grill (WHY do we still have this, when I have an ACTUAL GRILL in the backyard, plus a panini press) and a GranPappy deep fryer I bought when I was convinced I would make torta fritta more often. (Times I have made torta fritta since buying the fryer: 0.)
5. The Lenox Windswept crystal my mother bought me when I was sixteen. This is a lesson in why you should never consult a teenager in matters of taste. This pattern was trendy at the time, and I thought it was just faboo, and now it's embarrassing because it's so very, very eighties and ffs it's frosted. (So was my hair, at the time.) My mother thought I should start amassing my wedding crystal for some reason, and now I have four or five large boxes of flutes, wine and water glasses, and lord knows what else that I will never put on my table. Plain crystal wine glasses are fine, plus my husband and I tag-team excellently in the Dropping Things on the Floor department.
6. Stuff my grandmother left me. My father's mother had a lot of stuff, most of it of sentimental value only, and because no one else in the family wanted to be the one who threw it out, they gave it to me. Then my aunt Anne, who took a lot of that stuff, would decide she didn't want it after all (but she didn't want to throw it out either) and gave it to me as well until I told her to stop giving me Grandma's junk. Right now, among other things, I have a heavily tarnished silverplate tea service, highly unattractive crewelwork flowers in frames, and a dusty, sad-looking samurai doll (I named him Hiroshi) who looks like he's been drinking.
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Either way, it would be great to get rid of some of this stuff before my cellar looks even more like an episode of Hoarders. :/
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Date: 2011-07-17 03:21 am (UTC)*turns to the right to see three shelves full of VHSs*
*turns to the left to see five shelves full of VHSs*
*looks at nearby bookcase filled with old school textbooks, kids novels, art books and Japanese guides*
*turns to look behind her to see a shelf with four ultimanias, two dictionaries and several pencil sets*
And that's just this room.
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Date: 2011-07-17 09:28 pm (UTC)At least you use your pencils?
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Date: 2011-07-17 09:36 pm (UTC)Sadly no. Most of them are colouring pencils I buy in a sale, insisting I'm going to learn how to do colour illustrations. Then I make an attempt and see something resembling a 6 year old's colouring book...
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Date: 2011-07-19 01:34 am (UTC)Can you transfer some of your tapes over to DVD with your parents' equipment?
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Date: 2011-07-19 01:47 am (UTC)Yes I can! Sadly it doesn't work for some of my tapes (mostly the ones from 97 onwards which have some copy protection on them. Or are US imports) but a few of them do the job just splendidly.
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 10:11 am (UTC)My mother thought I should start amassing my wedding crystal for some reason,
...at sixteen? That's... maybe kind of creepy. And is wedding crystal what's used at the wedding, or what's used in the household once you're married?
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Date: 2011-07-17 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-17 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-23 04:56 pm (UTC)Oh, leaded crystal vases!