I don't collect rubbish; it simply accumulates.
I have just noticed these few things that, over the past few weeks, have managed to become part of my everyday life. They look at me, and I look back at them. I leave them where they are for fear of upsetting some natural evolution of random objects.
They include a roll of that thin plastic stuff that plumbers use, a large metal washer (that arrived yesterday, thanks to Lady M), three elastic bands, a black plastic paper clip, a small metal washer, a wire tie that secured the battery recharger wire for my new camera, a ball of cheap string, a long thin screw, an ancient piece of green glazed pot from the garden, and a plant tag.
The only one of these that I actually use is the string; with which I tie my Tomato plants.
Also on the desk are my beret (not worn in Summer), two Bluetooth speakers, three cameras, a box of coloured felt-tip pens, my thesaurus, calculator, address book, and lots of used pages torn from my notebook.
I also have a large mug which contains all sorts of essentials, including four penknives, a pair of scissors, an online banking security number pad, a 2B pencil, a torch, and a miniature antique 'level'.
I almost forgot. There is also an unpleasant blue plastic fly swat. Essential in Summer.
Looks like your desk is a good place to leave things so they can hang around with other things.
ReplyDeleteDarn thing is you can't just chuck most of them. I have a big glass bowl where all those things go and about once a year I finally have a look to see whats there. Treasures remain. Most things like a piece of wire finally go into the bin.
As for the rest, berets, pens and pieces of paper, these are what makes your desk a happy and familiar place.
Looking around my desk Im quite happy with my treasures. Pieces of wire and old washers though are not tolerated. They go in someone elses territory.
It's very difficult to know what to do with such things. I suppose I don't throw them away on that well known principle that they might be needed 'one day'. Mostly that 'one day' never comes.
DeleteI am allergic to visible clutter. Mine just gets shoved into a drawer. Still messy but hidden from view.
ReplyDeleteAll the stuff in the top photo is still here; I might see if I can find homes for some of them.
DeleteIt seems to me that every home has a drawer or a jar or just a table where the things we do not know what to do with are waiting.
ReplyDeleteI have several large jars filled with small value coins. There's a machine at the supermarket that sorts them... I must take them all one day.
DeleteA drawer? You haven't lived, Yael. In all abodes I have ever lived (as an adult) I always have a whole ROOM full of stuff awaiting further examination. Limbo land. A room the door of which is firmly closed to all visitors. Thus I am able to keep up the illusion (in all other rooms) that my life is neat, tidy and under control.
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ReplyDeleteI have to admit that I do live amongst clutter. I think it's part of my DNA.
DeleteHow very endearing, Cro. Though do believe in what someone once told me: Hanging on to stuff "just in case" shows you have NO trust that the future will provide what you need.
ReplyDeleteWhich, as observations go, is fine except that sometimes we do not have the means to throw money at a solution. Particularly on a Sunday afternoon, shops closed.
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My experience tells me that if I throw something away, I will require that self-same thing the following day.
DeleteSweep your arm over the desk and then retrieve the plumbers tape and your beret. We have four rolls of plumber's tap tape, never to be used again because of our modern plumbing, but just in case.
ReplyDeleteI was going to use it to re-seal a pressure gauge in the pool's Pump House. But I daren't remove it in case water spurts out. I need to ask a plumber.
DeleteDo you use the string to tie up the tomato plants as punishment? After all, they refuse to fruit as abundantly as you would wish. Why not use a blow torch? That would teach them!
ReplyDeleteIt's Jeanne d'Arc philosophy. Tie the to their stakes, and threaten them.
DeleteThings just congregate on desks!
ReplyDeleteThey do; it's not our faults!
DeleteI too have a collection of things like this which arrive uninvited on my desk - but my guess is that when I want something it is not there. Sod's law I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI blame Lady M; when she can't find a place for something, she leaves it by my laptop, hoping that I can.
DeleteWhen the Apocalypse comes, string and rubber bands will be the hottest commodities to own.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that Pipi; I always knew there was logic in my madness.
DeleteEmpty your mug onto your desk, and throw in batteries of different sizes along with a couple non-working pens, and you've pretty much got my 'junk drawer'.
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