Ever decreasing boxes.
Jul. 17th, 2011 12:25 amIn search of my ancient VHS full of Hardy Boyz matches, I just searched nearly all the boxes in my room. Among other things, I found:
> pencil cases of assorted coloured pencils and pens x3
> multi-cd case (empty)
> notebooks (blank) x 14
> chalk (white and purple)
> crayons from Pizza Hut
> Disney World pin badges
> Converse laces (purple and turquoise)
> paper (assorted blank, lined, black, coloured, tracing, squared, labels, A3/A4/A5)
> all my old diaries (about 15 of them in varying states of falling apart/covered in Leo DiCaprio stickers/doodles)
> a VHS of WWF: Survivor Series 2001
> action figures (Wesley, Ten, Donna, the Master, Jack, Rose and a bonus mini TARDIS)
> a black porcelain Dalek egg cup
> a teatowel with the hand-drawn faces of my schoolmates and myself, from 1993
> packs of playing card (Wimbledon, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Wales, M&Ms)
> another blank notebook
> a massive photo, carefully rolled up in a special box, of my entire high school & teaching staff circa 2000, stiffly posed on a stand in the playground
> a digital alarm clock (broken)
> empty wallets x5
> a Japanese purse made from pink, red and gold patterned kimono material, still in the box
> mini indoor sparklers
> a magnetic chess set
> a lump of melted green glass
> a two shilling coin minted in 1956
> a tin with a design of Egyptian cats, full of useless foreign currency
> Halloween streamers
> cinnamon TicTacs
> shells
> cinnamon flavoured mints from Germany
> Wimbledon wristbands (not the queue kind, the playing-tennis kind)
> a paper crane
> napkins printed with a House of Commons logo
> Tarot cards
> a blue and red patterned coin purse from Turkey
> a photo of a random German's Labrador in Slovenia
> a picture of Lita's Green Man tattoo cut out from a magazine
> sequins
> one of the pair of my very first earrings
> mini laughing Buddhas x5
( Here are pictures of some of it on my desk (not all; I couldn't face repacking all those boxes afterward) )
Things I did not find:
> my VHS of Hardy Boyz matches.
It must be in the undercroft beneath the house. -_- So tomorrow, more boxes! Only these ones may have spiders in them.
Possibly the lesson I should take away from this is: occasionally in your life, throw stuff away. Or just don't pick it up. You will probably not need that box of Pizza Hut crayons to save the world at any point in your life.* You can leave it on the table. Five packs of playing cards is probably enough; stop buying them. Those ancient cinnamon Tic Tacs? Throw them away.
Except I won't. That's what boxes were invented for.
* If I ever have to save the world by diagramming my plan to defeat the invading AI/zombies/aliens for everyone around me and it's raining** so the only way to do it is with something waxy and waterproof, I promise to retract this statement.
**More than likely if the Apocalypse is happening in the English Lake District.
> pencil cases of assorted coloured pencils and pens x3
> multi-cd case (empty)
> notebooks (blank) x 14
> chalk (white and purple)
> crayons from Pizza Hut
> Disney World pin badges
> Converse laces (purple and turquoise)
> paper (assorted blank, lined, black, coloured, tracing, squared, labels, A3/A4/A5)
> all my old diaries (about 15 of them in varying states of falling apart/covered in Leo DiCaprio stickers/doodles)
> a VHS of WWF: Survivor Series 2001
> action figures (Wesley, Ten, Donna, the Master, Jack, Rose and a bonus mini TARDIS)
> a black porcelain Dalek egg cup
> a teatowel with the hand-drawn faces of my schoolmates and myself, from 1993
> packs of playing card (Wimbledon, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Wales, M&Ms)
> another blank notebook
> a massive photo, carefully rolled up in a special box, of my entire high school & teaching staff circa 2000, stiffly posed on a stand in the playground
> a digital alarm clock (broken)
> empty wallets x5
> a Japanese purse made from pink, red and gold patterned kimono material, still in the box
> mini indoor sparklers
> a magnetic chess set
> a lump of melted green glass
> a two shilling coin minted in 1956
> a tin with a design of Egyptian cats, full of useless foreign currency
> Halloween streamers
> cinnamon TicTacs
> shells
> cinnamon flavoured mints from Germany
> Wimbledon wristbands (not the queue kind, the playing-tennis kind)
> a paper crane
> napkins printed with a House of Commons logo
> Tarot cards
> a blue and red patterned coin purse from Turkey
> a photo of a random German's Labrador in Slovenia
> a picture of Lita's Green Man tattoo cut out from a magazine
> sequins
> one of the pair of my very first earrings
> mini laughing Buddhas x5
( Here are pictures of some of it on my desk (not all; I couldn't face repacking all those boxes afterward) )
Things I did not find:
> my VHS of Hardy Boyz matches.
It must be in the undercroft beneath the house. -_- So tomorrow, more boxes! Only these ones may have spiders in them.
Possibly the lesson I should take away from this is: occasionally in your life, throw stuff away. Or just don't pick it up. You will probably not need that box of Pizza Hut crayons to save the world at any point in your life.* You can leave it on the table. Five packs of playing cards is probably enough; stop buying them. Those ancient cinnamon Tic Tacs? Throw them away.
Except I won't. That's what boxes were invented for.
* If I ever have to save the world by diagramming my plan to defeat the invading AI/zombies/aliens for everyone around me and it's raining** so the only way to do it is with something waxy and waterproof, I promise to retract this statement.
**More than likely if the Apocalypse is happening in the English Lake District.
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