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hrjFound a nice little compact 6-drawer cabinet for the new Art Supplies Home -- it even comes with casters. Moved the contents of the old, clunky art cabinet into their new home and meditated on the following:
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* If you no longer own a typewriter, you no longer need to own a box of EZ-erase typing paper and a folder of carbon paper.
* The note cards that were way too twee for you to use when you were in high school are no more appropriate when you're on the far side of 50.
* Felt markers have a finite lifespan. Assume they have passed it without testing them individually.
* Continuing to hang on to the Texas Instruments SR-50 calculator you got in '74 may increase your geek cred but is of no practical use. Particularly since it hasn't worked for the last 20 years.
* Oil paint tubes have a finite lifespan. Assume they have passed it unless you can remember when you bought them.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* Construction paper is cheap. You don't need to keep pieces with writing on one side "because they're still good for stiffening something else".
* When you're more than 5 years out of grad school, go ahead and throw away those extra blue books and scantron forms.
* Stick-on sheet feeding labels have a finite lifespan. They are also cheap. You know what to do.
* In the 21st century, should an adult choose to do anything so retro as to write a letter on actual stationary, it is not suitable to use stationary with unicorns or dragons on it.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* Standard graph paper has many uses; log-log graph paper has many fewer uses. Can you think of any that crossed your path in the last five years? That you couldn't plot much more easily in Excel?
* Glue-sticks have a finite lifespan. Keep only the newest.
* There is a limit to the number of #2 pencils and Bic stick pens a body is likely to use in a lifetime. Also: stick pens have a finite lifespan.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* If you no longer own a typewriter, you no longer need to own a box of EZ-erase typing paper and a folder of carbon paper.
* The note cards that were way too twee for you to use when you were in high school are no more appropriate when you're on the far side of 50.
* Felt markers have a finite lifespan. Assume they have passed it without testing them individually.
* Continuing to hang on to the Texas Instruments SR-50 calculator you got in '74 may increase your geek cred but is of no practical use. Particularly since it hasn't worked for the last 20 years.
* Oil paint tubes have a finite lifespan. Assume they have passed it unless you can remember when you bought them.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* Construction paper is cheap. You don't need to keep pieces with writing on one side "because they're still good for stiffening something else".
* When you're more than 5 years out of grad school, go ahead and throw away those extra blue books and scantron forms.
* Stick-on sheet feeding labels have a finite lifespan. They are also cheap. You know what to do.
* In the 21st century, should an adult choose to do anything so retro as to write a letter on actual stationary, it is not suitable to use stationary with unicorns or dragons on it.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
* Standard graph paper has many uses; log-log graph paper has many fewer uses. Can you think of any that crossed your path in the last five years? That you couldn't plot much more easily in Excel?
* Glue-sticks have a finite lifespan. Keep only the newest.
* There is a limit to the number of #2 pencils and Bic stick pens a body is likely to use in a lifetime. Also: stick pens have a finite lifespan.
* If you don't remember that you own something, you might as well not own it.
