Like Andy Warhol, I like to hoard papers.
Unlike Andy WArhol, I don't have a Museum dedicated to myself to catalogue, box and archive my papers in temperature-controlled storage.
So I've been busy shredding.
Speaking of Austrians, we Rocked-Me-Amadeus like it was Vienna 1985 and cooked some wiener schnitzel for dinner.
What year, Carmel? I used to keep all of my concert tickets. Not sure or not if I had a moment of insanity & pegged them all last year. Oh the memories of Festival Hall ...
ReplyDelete1983 sister.
DeleteOh-oh, just posted more stuff to add to your shredding pile...
ReplyDelete(nice plate)
Uh-oh.
DeletePapers are my weakness too. Especially work related, have this fear if I bin them that the corresponding file in my brain will also spontaneously delete itself. Getting more ruthless though now we are home as if it does not fit it is gone. Aside from the husbands lego which does not fit and I am stuck with. mel x
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking lately ... what if I get hit by a bus? Who wants this crap? That's why I'm getting rid of everything bar the pieces that relate to the family which the kids may want to look back on.
DeleteSame here, love to cull but love to collect, it's a vicious circle that I'm quite happy to continue with for the time being :-) Sounds a bit serious but we tend to burn things in the incinerator here as we don't have a shredder. How did I miss your last Posts? I would like everything on your List for Ladies, especially the brogues and the cardi :-) Mel x
ReplyDeleteWe used to have an incinerator when I was growing up. I was always tossing stuff in that. Incinerators are so middle-ages!
DeleteNo! dear Carmel, you haven't shredded the Duran Duran concert tickets?! everything else, but...
ReplyDeleteotherwise, you are my hero! radical, brave or you are just tired of the huge amount of things in your house (like I am, but I am a sissy)
Lots of hugs and kisses to you and your family (+Austrian girl... yummy Kalbsschnitzel :)
Ariane.
Arian,
DeleteSorry to scare you ... the Duran Duran ticket stays. Phew! I'm sick of all the useless junk that accumulates. Each child has a massive plastic box filled with their paintings and writing etc. That's all staying so I thought time to erase the past.
My daughter says I'm the least sentimental person she's ever known, which is categorically untrue. I still have some very cute drawings she did as a child, a few of her school report cards and every birthday card she's given me for the last six years. But, just between you and me, I really don't have much trouble tossing things. Of course, I'll deny that if you tell her I said it.
ReplyDeleteDana,
Deleteyou've kept the sort of things I've kept. Silverfish bait ... that's what piles of paper are. Andy had it all right. We need to get ourselves a musuem. You won't need a big museum. But you can be in charge of furnishing it!
I have a stash of stuff under the house in the Pit of Oblivion which is inaccessible to me. I always said I'd go through it when the studio gets built so I can file it all in little boxes. It's been there since before the 14 year olds were born. This is what comes of not moving house often enough!
ReplyDeleteahhh festival hall....ive still got my "tears for fears" ticket stubb.....from 1984....they were my "first". I wore yellow overalls....cause I know you really wanted to know that! x
ReplyDeleteShout. Shout. Let it all Out, yellow-overalled Allison.
DeleteIf incinerators are middle ages, what happens to all that shredded paper after you have finished shredding it?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry DMC, I put all the shredded paper in the compost pile for the worms.
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