Categories: life, mrs-tiggywinkle
Date: 26 May 2009 18:31:11
Thank you gentle readers for your valuable comments on my quest to reorganise myself.
I have taken your advice and have been implementing the new strategy of shredding almost everything. All the wage slips have been chewed, old contracts of employment and I'm about to start on the old bills. I have a feeling that my next-door neighbours will be harbouring suspicions of my belonging to some clandestine outfit about to have its cover blown such is the industry on my side of the party wall. The scene of operations is the kitchen counter - plenty of room to spread out and put things in piles of "keep" and "shred". It's also more comfortable than sitting cross-legged on the floor. The only disadvantage is that I can't hear the radio above the din of the munching machine. The recycling service has today taken away bags of thin strips of my life history - but fear ye not - there seems still to be plenty more to go.
My next question is (particularly for those who are creative of mind and sentimental of heart) what does one do with old but oh-so-pretty birthday cards? I have an avalanche of them. They are too lovely to throw away but what can I do with them? (I also have a whole box full of wedding invitations - I've thought of how to deal with these: I'm going to make a scrap book of them (and then hire myself out as Rent-a-Guest: I've got the frock, the hat, the shoes, the bag. I know most of the popular wedding hymns... and if I don't, I've usually got it sorted by the time the second verse starts...I know when to stand and sit, throw confetti, I'll eat almost anything at the wedding breakfast (as long as it doesn't include mussels...and who has mussels at their reception?), I can chat to other guests in English, German and French on a range of subjects and I do a good line in smiling and nodding and making LOUD but polite small talk with deaf aunts and grannies)).
But back to the birthday cards....zillions of them, too pretty to throw out, too many to put into scrap books...rather slushily sentimental about them...they're slowly taking over the house....
Ideas? Anyone?