AGH!

[telophase]

I'm addicted to those household organization shows, mostly because I am totally not organized, but sometimes the advice they give is just ... ugh. The howler today is that the organizer says that keeping negatives is not necessary, because you can scan or make copies of photos at many places today. Uh, well, yeah, as long as you don't care that you have crappy copies. It might be OK for someone who really doesn't care about the quality of the images, but the woman who's getting her house organized today is an artist.

If you've got to get rid of the negatives, take them to a place that can scan them for you and burn them to CD. That way you've got the best copy you can make.

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[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

I got a better one.

There was one show where the organizer convinced the woman whose house she was clearing out to get rid of the police reports/evidence from her mother's unsolved (rape and?) murder.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Now *that* is just plain irresponsible, insensitive and several other words starting with "in-".

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

...What is wrong with these people?

The only thing I hate more are those people who think that more than a certain amount of years old means irrelevant and to toss it out. Like I know they'd tell my mom to get rid of all her unused fabric--she has things going back that are older than my oldest sister. That's our legacy, dammit.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They'd tell me to get rid of a lot of my art supplies. OK, so I havne't used these pencils in six months. But that's because I go in cycles of the type of work I do, and I haven't done pencils in six months. I know I'll get back to them at some point in the not-too-distant future, and I'm not about to drop another $100 on pencil supplies later on just to clear the space now.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

Same here. (Somewhat unrelated, but I need new accrylics.) I hate to think what they would say of me keeping every back card for every pony I've gotten one for. And I stand by the belief that if all the books fit neatly on the shelf, then you don't have enough books.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

I think they're crazy.

I actually envy people with sentimental stuff like that. The only thing with sentimental value that I own is a stuffed animal I've had since I was tiny; I wish I had more. I don't have much clutter either, though, despite the book and Barbie addictions.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I have sentimental stuff going back for years. There's no replacing sentiment with money or cleanness. None. I'd rather live in chaos.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Most of my sentimental stuff is pretty small - a pair of diamond earrings that belonged to my grandmother, the letters my mom wrote from Africa when we lived there - or over at my mother's house - the set of silver that my grandmother bought.*

Other things are sentimental only for a few years at a time, and I'll be able to get rid of them before too long, to make way for new temporariy-sentimental things.


* My grandmother was into silver, and had a set of her own, and a set for Mom. Every year or so, or whenever the price of silver took a dive, she'd go buy another place setting or a serving utnetil or something. As a result of which, Mom's got a 10-seat place setting and I inherited my grandmother's set and have an 8-seat setting. I have just about zero opportunity to use it, but I have never once seriously considered getting rid of it. Also, my dad carved a mantlepiece for the other grandparents, and when they both go I'm going to insist on getting it back. :D I may have no fireplace, and it may sit int eh back of a closet or something, but I'd never get rid of it.