Springing forward
Mar. 11th, 2008 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grnvixenWhy is it that getting out of bed for work the second morning after 'springing forward' is harder than the first......
Sorted through another large box of books last night, which got me to thinking....cut cause I'm considerate This was an overflowing box of Anne McCaffrey books. She has always been a favorite of mine, she and H. Beam Piper introduced me to SF and at one time I had probably every book of hers that was in print, most of them autographed. Every couple of years I reread one or more of the original Pern books, they are kind of my 'comfort read' if I am sick. I haven't kept up with her newer titles, I think that started when I just wasn't able to make it out to the stores to browse around. Recently I saw a new one, picked it up and enjoyed it but, well, you can't go home again. I didn't part with the whole box but probably pared it down by half. Some were dups, some were her series that I don't follow anymore. Did it give me a pang? Sure, but now I have room to occasionally pickup titles I haven't read, and naturally started rereading an old favorite in the process :).
Sorting through all the books recently, and looking ahead at more sorting and reorganizing we are planning, I am remembering some of the advice from the Clean Sweep shows when dealing with accumulated clutter. Ask yourself why you are keeping it? Because you Have to HAVE it? It is a family memory? If so, are you really respecting the memory?
At one time I can remember I HAD to have every plush fox I saw. It's been fun to have them, and some were gifts, but was I really respecting them by letting them sit around and just collect dust? Yup, you guessed it, the foxes have also been sorted out :). I still have quite a few left though!
One big item I have thought a lot about and it is time to move on with is a Waterford Crystal Chandelier that had been my great-aunts' pride and joy. They bought it on a trip to Ireland in the mid 1970's and it hung in their dining room until my last Aunt, Edna, had to go into assisted living and didn't have a place for it (it followed her to two places but there just wasn't room in the third). When I ended up with the family walnut dinning table (it was oval and perfect for our dining room) I got the chandelier. We use the table but never installed the chandelier, it just didn't fit with our decorating style. It's been in a box in the basement ever since, just in case someone might be interested.
Welllll, it's been several years now, Edna has passed, and the box is still sitting there. Everyone in the family keeps telling me that Edna would understand if I wanted to sell it. I haven't been able to find a way to tell them that I *KNOW* that! I just hadn't been able to actually think of parting with it, especially while Edna was still with us. It was a part of growing up, the special family dinners at the Great-Aunt's house, part of treks to Topeka to held Edna decorate for Christmas (the chandelier had it's own special box of holiday trimmings :)) when she and D would share an anchovy pizza. But, what am I doing for those memories by leaving this beautiful piece to gather dust in the basement? It had held pride of place in the GA's house, it needs to be seen, appreciated and enjoyed again. So, I double-checked with the sisters and neither of them are interested. Talked with D and we really can't see us every using it so I dug out the paperwork that came with it originally and went to the Waterford site to check it out. Gulp!
Included with the original paperwork was the charge card recipt from the original purchase. The GA's paid less than $250 for the chandelier at that time. Waterford still makes this model, it is very pretty, not very large (hangs down just under two feet) and is OHMYGOD Expensive! website is
here .
I had been thinking of putting it up on Craig's list but may need to reconsider...
Sorted through another large box of books last night, which got me to thinking....cut cause I'm considerate This was an overflowing box of Anne McCaffrey books. She has always been a favorite of mine, she and H. Beam Piper introduced me to SF and at one time I had probably every book of hers that was in print, most of them autographed. Every couple of years I reread one or more of the original Pern books, they are kind of my 'comfort read' if I am sick. I haven't kept up with her newer titles, I think that started when I just wasn't able to make it out to the stores to browse around. Recently I saw a new one, picked it up and enjoyed it but, well, you can't go home again. I didn't part with the whole box but probably pared it down by half. Some were dups, some were her series that I don't follow anymore. Did it give me a pang? Sure, but now I have room to occasionally pickup titles I haven't read, and naturally started rereading an old favorite in the process :).
Sorting through all the books recently, and looking ahead at more sorting and reorganizing we are planning, I am remembering some of the advice from the Clean Sweep shows when dealing with accumulated clutter. Ask yourself why you are keeping it? Because you Have to HAVE it? It is a family memory? If so, are you really respecting the memory?
At one time I can remember I HAD to have every plush fox I saw. It's been fun to have them, and some were gifts, but was I really respecting them by letting them sit around and just collect dust? Yup, you guessed it, the foxes have also been sorted out :). I still have quite a few left though!
One big item I have thought a lot about and it is time to move on with is a Waterford Crystal Chandelier that had been my great-aunts' pride and joy. They bought it on a trip to Ireland in the mid 1970's and it hung in their dining room until my last Aunt, Edna, had to go into assisted living and didn't have a place for it (it followed her to two places but there just wasn't room in the third). When I ended up with the family walnut dinning table (it was oval and perfect for our dining room) I got the chandelier. We use the table but never installed the chandelier, it just didn't fit with our decorating style. It's been in a box in the basement ever since, just in case someone might be interested.
Welllll, it's been several years now, Edna has passed, and the box is still sitting there. Everyone in the family keeps telling me that Edna would understand if I wanted to sell it. I haven't been able to find a way to tell them that I *KNOW* that! I just hadn't been able to actually think of parting with it, especially while Edna was still with us. It was a part of growing up, the special family dinners at the Great-Aunt's house, part of treks to Topeka to held Edna decorate for Christmas (the chandelier had it's own special box of holiday trimmings :)) when she and D would share an anchovy pizza. But, what am I doing for those memories by leaving this beautiful piece to gather dust in the basement? It had held pride of place in the GA's house, it needs to be seen, appreciated and enjoyed again. So, I double-checked with the sisters and neither of them are interested. Talked with D and we really can't see us every using it so I dug out the paperwork that came with it originally and went to the Waterford site to check it out. Gulp!
Included with the original paperwork was the charge card recipt from the original purchase. The GA's paid less than $250 for the chandelier at that time. Waterford still makes this model, it is very pretty, not very large (hangs down just under two feet) and is OHMYGOD Expensive! website is
here .
I had been thinking of putting it up on Craig's list but may need to reconsider...
