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Post by joblackford on May 17, 2024 21:10:40 GMT
Shakti's Weird Decluttering Question of the Day™: If I made a card, and gifted the card in a set, and got the card back as a thank you card from the gift recipient: - Would it make me some sort of egomaniac to save it?
- Or just a hopeless clutter hound?
- Can I put it on a new base and donate it?
- Or do I really just need to say it's lived two or three lives already and pitch it into recycling?
hahaha! card maker problems. Were you excited to see it again and love it? If so definitely put it on display for a few days (or longer) and enjoy it. Not egomaniacal at all. You should enjoy and be proud of your work! I would probably put it on a new card base and donate it after that, if it's in good shape. But it's totally fine to toss it at any stage. (Or keep it.) I'm no help
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Post by Shakti on May 17, 2024 21:56:27 GMT
Oh, they've been kicking around my desk since January -- one 2024, the other 2023!
EtA: I am not completely irrational and now that I've typed that out, I recognize how ridiculous it sounds. Both cards, along with a simple thank you card from Bring Smiles to Seniors, are in the bin.
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Post by wordfish on May 19, 2024 20:48:26 GMT
Well, we've put the four Michaels cubes together but I haven't pulled everything out of the closet yet. I think we are going to get it painted and set up next weekend, though, since it's a long weekend. I'm slowly moving things around to maximize the use of the space and to get the things I use more frequently closer to my work area. I figure it will be fall before I have everything just the way I want it, since I'm anticipating being gone for a pretty big swath of the summer, but we'll see. If I can pull off setting up this second cloffice area, that's the last big foundation stuff left to do and the rest is finishing a sort and then the micro-organizing. I think there will be room to spare, which is amazing.
I have a few more containers coming, and my plan is to put all the stuff that I don't really need but don't want to get rid of, mostly stuff from my parents, just a box or two, and stuff from my husband's parents, same thing, up on the very top shelves of both cloffices. I have some of those pretty white Ikea plastic boxes with lids and a few that are similar and my plan is to use the cricut to print some vinyl labels, put everything in boxes and store them up there. I think I've already tossed most of what I wanted to toss, and some of the stuff I did not toss but that I was really not sure I wanted to keep ended up being EXTREMELY USEFUL when I was trying to solve a huge genealogy mystery that literally no one in our family had any idea existed until I looked at my Ancestry DNA results a few years ago. It was a random sheet of paper that survived for probably 80 years in my parents' stuff, so I'm pretty set on keeping most of what I haven't already tossed. But I don't really need to look at it often, so I think storing it way, up near the ceiling, labeled and out of the way, is the best option.
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Post by Linda on May 19, 2024 20:51:33 GMT
Oh, they've been kicking around my desk since January -- one 2024, the other 2023! EtA: I am not completely irrational and now that I've typed that out, I recognize how ridiculous it sounds. Both cards, along with a simple thank you card from Bring Smiles to Seniors, are in the bin. sometimes typing it out really does help with the decision making process
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Post by Linda on May 19, 2024 20:54:56 GMT
my plan is to put all the stuff that I don't really need but don't want to get rid of, mostly stuff from my parents, just a box or two, and stuff from my husband's parents, same thing, up on the very top shelves of both cloffices. I have some of those pretty white Ikea plastic boxes with lids and a few that are similar and my plan is to use the cricut to print some vinyl labels, put everything in boxes and store them up there. I think I've already tossed most of what I wanted to toss, and some of the stuff I did not toss but that I was really not sure I wanted to keep ended up being EXTREMELY USEFUL when I was trying to solve a huge genealogy mystery that literally no one in our family had any idea existed until I looked at my Ancestry DNA results a few years ago. It was a random sheet of paper that survived for probably 80 years in my parents' stuff, so I'm pretty set on keeping most of what I haven't already tossed. But I don't really need to look at it often, so I think storing it way, up near the ceiling, labeled and out of the way, is the best option. I am the keeper of the family archives for both my family and DH's family so I have loads of photos and memorabilia that I've inherited. I've been slowly organising, labelling, and storing over the past 4 years or so. I have a closet in the guest room where I'm storing the 'finished' and labelled boxes. Finished is in quotes because more than once I've gone upstairs to add things to one or another of the boxes but ... Yay on solving a genealogy mystery. I have a couple I'm hoping to solve.
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Post by wordfish on May 19, 2024 21:07:37 GMT
It was amazing. I found out my paternal grandfather was a whole different person than the entire family thought he was, including my father. Because the person we thought was our grandfather abandoned my father and his sisters and they did not know him, this was a completely welcome discovery. We are pretty sure my real grandfather had no idea that my father existed. It was in London near the very end of WW1 and he was shipped to France around the time my grandmother would have become aware that my father was on the way. She married the man we all thought was our grandfather about 3 weeks before my father was born. I have tracked my real grandfather through time and in his own writing and confirmed he was exactly where he would have needed to be in order for my father to happen, at the time that my father would have happened. My newfound cousins, who are just lovely, sent me photos and even an old digitized home movie from the 1950s. Never in my entire life did I ever think I would see video footage of even one of my grandparents, as they all died long before I was born. He died in 1960. It's been an amazing experience--one of the best and most wonderful and welcome surprises I could have imagined.
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Post by Linda on May 20, 2024 0:28:54 GMT
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Post by Shakti on May 26, 2024 16:23:56 GMT
A little bamboo and plastic drawer unit followed me home from Marshall's the other day, totally of it's own volition. I am working on getting to the bottom of the giant bin of all the things that either don't have a home or can't seem to find their way home in my craft room. Much of what was in there was paper scraps. So I spent a little time organizing scraps, including adding in the new unit, labeling all the drawers, and actually throwing away the impossibly small ones that just got tossed in anyway: url=https://postimg.cc/dDFcPK8L] [/url] I also found my Spring Has Sprung stamp (again!), but not my missing cherry blossom die.
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Post by Shakti on May 26, 2024 16:47:55 GMT
Which leads us to another Shakti's Weird Decluttering Question of the Day™:
In software validation, there's a concept of SoUP or Software of Unknown Provenance. I am running into PoUP or Paper of Unknown Provenance. Since I am primarily a card maker and don't need to be overly concerned with acid-free/archival, should I just put it where it would belong if it were any other scrap? Or recycle it on principal?
I have found a mystery panel, about A2 size, of some sort of white, slightly textured paper with some sort of subtle glitter or sparkle embedded in it.
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Post by Shakti on May 26, 2024 17:31:37 GMT
How many of those plastic foam sheets -- the kind used to pad things like iPad screens in shipping -- does one need to save? I know they can used as cushions when stamping photopolymer stamps with acrylic blocks, but that's like one, maybe two (not that I ever even free stamp anymore anyway). Anything else they're good for? Anyone reuse them when shipping things to others?
I know, that's my second question this afternoon. Hopefully it's slightly less weird.
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Post by wordfish on May 26, 2024 19:01:04 GMT
Which leads us to another Shakti's Weird Decluttering Question of the Day™: In software validation, there's a concept of SoUP or Software of Unknown Provenance. I am running into PoUP or Paper of Unknown Provenance. Since I am primarily a card maker and don't need to be overly concerned with acid-free/archival, should I just put it where it would belong if it were any other scrap? Or recycle it on principal? I have found a mystery panel, about A2 size, of some sort of white, slightly textured paper with some sort of subtle glitter or sparkle embedded in it. I would just put it with your scraps if you like it. If you don't, I would toss it.
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Post by wordfish on May 26, 2024 19:03:53 GMT
How many of those plastic foam sheets -- the kind used to pad things like iPad screens in shipping -- does one need to save? I know they can used as cushions when stamping photopolymer stamps with acrylic blocks, but that's like one, maybe two (not that I ever even free stamp anymore anyway). Anything else they're good for? Anyone reuse them when shipping things to others? I know, that's my second question this afternoon. Hopefully it's slightly less weird. I have a part of a drawer designated for stuff like that: Bubble wrap, stuff for padding when I ship things. I would keep just a few, toss the rest, particularly when my designated area for that stuff is full. I definitely do reuse stuff like that when I ship stuff to others, though.
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Post by Shakti on May 26, 2024 20:37:13 GMT
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Post by joblackford on May 26, 2024 20:44:08 GMT
Which leads us to another Shakti's Weird Decluttering Question of the Day™: In software validation, there's a concept of SoUP or Software of Unknown Provenance. I am running into PoUP or Paper of Unknown Provenance. Since I am primarily a card maker and don't need to be overly concerned with acid-free/archival, should I just put it where it would belong if it were any other scrap? Or recycle it on principal? I have found a mystery panel, about A2 size, of some sort of white, slightly textured paper with some sort of subtle glitter or sparkle embedded in it. I would store it glued onto the front of a card base with some ephemera and a sentiment on top! lol. So helpful. But that's usually my go to plan for random things. Proper answer - wherever you would look for it first, or where you would look for something like it.
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Post by joblackford on May 26, 2024 20:47:53 GMT
How many of those plastic foam sheets -- the kind used to pad things like iPad screens in shipping -- does one need to save? I know they can used as cushions when stamping photopolymer stamps with acrylic blocks, but that's like one, maybe two (not that I ever even free stamp anymore anyway). Anything else they're good for? Anyone reuse them when shipping things to others? I know, that's my second question this afternoon. Hopefully it's slightly less weird. I think the question is, would YOU use them to ship things to other people? Or would you just reach for a roll of bubble wrap or a padded envelope and never think of or pass by these kinds of sheets. I'm like wordfish, I have a bin of packing foam chunks, peanuts, air bubbles, etc and when it's too full I stop. But I also ship a lot of things on the regular. I find that I rarely reach for certain kinds of packing materials so I have to be realistic about why I'm keeping the stuff I don't actually use.
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Post by Shakti on May 27, 2024 1:57:22 GMT
My DH is already accusing me of being a bubble pack hoarder....
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Post by lg on May 27, 2024 3:56:35 GMT
Finished another ae word phrase sticker sheet - yippee! Just need to find a similar sheet from my stash for the last few photos without a phrase in my witl so it’s all matching. Then onto journaling and then witl will be finished - all before any kind of updates on the project from ae…. So WEIRD!
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Post by Shakti on May 28, 2024 16:00:19 GMT
I've mostly been posting this in my challenge team chat, but I decided that to keep myself occupied while I was waiting on news on the job front I was going to completely put the craft room back together for the first time since January, when I swapped in my new craftinet. There were usually piles of things in front of the upper doors that would then get dumped into a large plastic storage bin (a/k/a Doom Box) along with other homeless flotsam and jetsam, whenever I got frustrated with it or needed the room to look tidy. Look Ma, no piles and no Doom Box on the side table The larger of those bins is my Summer Camp kit and the smaller is two other WIP projects.
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Post by Linda on May 28, 2024 22:07:30 GMT
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Post by petscrapper on May 29, 2024 3:51:44 GMT
I’ve been an inspired lurker in this thread. Tonight I went through my embellishment binder to finally remove all remaining traces of epoxy. So much epoxy🤦🏽♀️. I’m actually surprised some of it still looked ok after a decade and a half.
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Post by Ryann on May 29, 2024 16:46:48 GMT
Shakti the crafty cabinet looks awesome. You've got a lot stashed in there to play with!
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