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alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-12 01:51 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-12 01:51 pm
I am my mother's child
Somebody tell me to get rid of the damn Greenpeace sticker. I don't want it, I'm never going to use it, I didn't want it in the first place (I think I acquired it via one of my actual charities selling my info), I especially don't want it after the Nazca Lines jackassery, it isn't worth the postage to give it away ('cause let me assure you no one else in this house wants it either, though for different reasons). But I cannot bring myself to actually trash the thing.
There is a lot of crap I own that I neither need nor want but cannot convince myself to get rid of.
And yes, I know,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
unclutter. Also bitesizedcleaning and ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
unfuckyourhabitat. Also the KonMari system—I finally broke down and bought a Kindle copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and am 24% in. (On a related note: I keep spending money I do not really have. Which is part of why the clutter problem! ...and yes, actyourwage.)
And I keep telling myself I'll do better in my own apartment, but who do you think you're kidding, Alex. This corner of the basement is essentially all mine (if only because no one else wants to deal with my crap), my bedroom is definitely all mine (since the sister who used to share it with me is the one who moved in with her fiancé), and I have no one else to blame for the state they're in. If I can't handle keeping these two areas clean now, that bodes ill for my being able to keep an entire apartment clean later.
Seriously, somebody tell me to get rid of the Greenpeace sticker. I will probably whine at you about how I don't waaaaant to, but I keep hearing that being an adult is doing the thing while muttering "I don't wanna"...
There is a lot of crap I own that I neither need nor want but cannot convince myself to get rid of.
And yes, I know,
unclutter. Also bitesizedcleaning and actyourwage.)And I keep telling myself I'll do better in my own apartment, but who do you think you're kidding, Alex. This corner of the basement is essentially all mine (if only because no one else wants to deal with my crap), my bedroom is definitely all mine (since the sister who used to share it with me is the one who moved in with her fiancé), and I have no one else to blame for the state they're in. If I can't handle keeping these two areas clean now, that bodes ill for my being able to keep an entire apartment clean later.
Seriously, somebody tell me to get rid of the Greenpeace sticker. I will probably whine at you about how I don't waaaaant to, but I keep hearing that being an adult is doing the thing while muttering "I don't wanna"...
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But, yes, hard.
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...There was another Greenpeace sticker under it. I am not even joking. It is also in the recycle box.
I feel like Massive Victory Accomplished.
(oh hey mom is home maybe I can go deal with work lunches now)
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2. That thing you say? About "if only because no one else wants to deal with my crap"? Yeah, the reason my room was an utter tip through my childhood and most of undergrad, and suddenly my home (shared with Awesome Housemate) is approximately clean and tidy except for health-related lapses that get sorted relatively quickly? It is because the mess was insulation and armour. It was a way to keep people the fuck AWAY from me. And that's... a thing.
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...huh. That is a thing to think about.
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...There was another Greenpeace sticker under it. I am not even joking. It is also in the recycle box.
I feel like Massive Victory Accomplished.
(oh hey mom is home maybe I can go deal with work lunches now)
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Greenpeace sticker
That Nazca Lines DEBACLE (and there aren't enough Shouty!Caps in the /world/ for that phrase) deserves a little karma in return, right?
Good on you for treating their symbol with more respect than they gave one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world and DONATING the stickers. ME, I would've stuck 'em onto a sheet of toilet paper, then shredded same with scissors and happily dumped the confetti into my NOT-recycling trash. Because, you know, ticked off due to damage to Nazca Plains!
Re: Greenpeace sticker
I don't like throwing things away when I could recycle them. So.
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Because what you do with a sticker, particularly if the sticky part is still covered or not sticky or otherwise damaging, is you fold it and use it as a bookmark. And then you leave it in the book (preferably out of sight) when you return it. And then (and this is important) you don't ask about it.
I'm fairly certain that libraries find bookmarks all the time and unless they're legal papers or money they just get tossed.
And you don't have to do it. And if you deeply regret it, you can always disregard that last step.
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That would work, yes. Thanks!
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IMO the most useful part of that book was the ending, but I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it.
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*nod* Shall share when I get there.
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I am allowed to bin the cheap plastic tacky toys they haven't even noticed were lost. And the broken paper+card flippy-cube-thingy. And I can recycle their drawings from 3 years ago because I don't need to keep everything they ever made (just a representative sample!)
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Good that the stickers are gone as a first step.
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