The never-ending saga of tidying up
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yuuagoThings discovered while cleaning my closet:
-$5 in change
-A rubber bat
-My Little Pony magnets
-A long ponytail of my own hair
-4 pairs of shoes that fit
-4 pairs of dress shoes that fit but I wouldn't want to wear for long
-1 pair of Converse sneakers that do not fit
-A collected volume of Storm Constantine's Wraeththu trilogy
-One deck of Fushigi Yuugi playing cards
-5 duotangs full of my fanfiction
-2 GLAY CDs
-Miscellaneous unlabelled burned CDs that I'm going to have to check out later
-The warranty for a computer I bought in 2008
-A roadmap of Scotland (bonus: I have never been to Scotland and do not intend to go in the future)
-A very large Norwegian flag
-Two boxes of Prismacolour pencils
...And much, much more.
Keep in mind that I "cleaned this up" earlier this year. /cough
Oh boy. Some of this is going in the bin, some of this is getting recycled (I keep the handwritten drafts of my recent fics, but I really don't need the ones from 2009, do I?) and some is going to the secondhand. ...But I'm probably going to keep more things than I really need for the time being. I don't need eight pairs of shoes, but I have a thing I need to go to in August, want to keep my options open, pfff.
...I am definitely going to re-read Wraeththu. I don't know if I would like it now, and I'm really curious! When I was a teenager, it hit my id so fucking hard, man.
Also: I've mentioned before, but I'll mention again, Marie Kondo's suggestion of storing one or two bags/purses inside the other is great. It helps them keep their shape, and it frees up a bit more space. I have a few messenger bags in there, and man, it really helps to store them nested like that.
-$5 in change
-A rubber bat
-My Little Pony magnets
-A long ponytail of my own hair
-4 pairs of shoes that fit
-4 pairs of dress shoes that fit but I wouldn't want to wear for long
-1 pair of Converse sneakers that do not fit
-A collected volume of Storm Constantine's Wraeththu trilogy
-One deck of Fushigi Yuugi playing cards
-5 duotangs full of my fanfiction
-2 GLAY CDs
-Miscellaneous unlabelled burned CDs that I'm going to have to check out later
-The warranty for a computer I bought in 2008
-A roadmap of Scotland (bonus: I have never been to Scotland and do not intend to go in the future)
-A very large Norwegian flag
-Two boxes of Prismacolour pencils
...And much, much more.
Keep in mind that I "cleaned this up" earlier this year. /cough
Oh boy. Some of this is going in the bin, some of this is getting recycled (I keep the handwritten drafts of my recent fics, but I really don't need the ones from 2009, do I?) and some is going to the secondhand. ...But I'm probably going to keep more things than I really need for the time being. I don't need eight pairs of shoes, but I have a thing I need to go to in August, want to keep my options open, pfff.
...I am definitely going to re-read Wraeththu. I don't know if I would like it now, and I'm really curious! When I was a teenager, it hit my id so fucking hard, man.
Also: I've mentioned before, but I'll mention again, Marie Kondo's suggestion of storing one or two bags/purses inside the other is great. It helps them keep their shape, and it frees up a bit more space. I have a few messenger bags in there, and man, it really helps to store them nested like that.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2019-07-03 06:32 am (UTC)I'm so glad you found this and not some stranger in the long distant future, because finding someone else's hair is a bit nightmarish.
When you find art supplies, isn't it like shopping all over again? I get this with yarn, also. "I'm going to the yarn shop!" I say, as I go to my craft room for a rummage.
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Date: 2019-07-03 11:46 am (UTC)And YES, big +1 to it being like shopping... Man, I feel like I should draw something with these. I also found two sketchbooks that were hardly used at all; maybe I should take it as a Sign.
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Date: 2019-07-03 11:44 am (UTC)This Wraeththu world (I've never heard of it before now) looks super neat! Keep us posted if it's as good as you remember. :D
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Date: 2019-07-03 11:49 am (UTC)I have a vague impression that the Wraeththu series was sort of proto-omegaverse, so, uh, it'll be really interesting to revisit it and see just what I think of it now. xD
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Date: 2019-07-03 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-04 12:43 am (UTC)They were my introduction to Japanese music too! I still really like them.
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Date: 2019-07-04 01:43 am (UTC)I hope you find some neat stuff on the unlabeled CDs - I always do when I go poking through mine.
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Date: 2019-07-04 01:45 am (UTC)The CDS were actually mostly blank, except for one, which contained over 2000 AIM logs of conversations with my ex. INTO THE BIN WITH YOU.