Clearing out

[bugshaw]

I had suspected there was another box of "sentimental t-shirts" around, and Simon just found it. Plus a bonus Venture Scout and Guide uniform!

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We also found another box of "clothes - too small". Now that all my clothes are boxed up I see with horror that 60% of my clothes are Too Small. I must have some sort of brain sickness that makes me keep holding on to them in case I ever become a size 16 again, or 14. There a few 12s too, but I was never a 12.

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be unreasonable to keep a brownie woggle, a guide woggle, and a rangers woggle. They're pretty small.

My recommendation for dealing with sentimental tat is to get a light box and take beautifully lit photos of the tat. Then bin it: the photos work at least as well as memory-joggers and in some ways better if the sentimental tat was being kept in a box in the attic.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I can't tell the woggles apart by group, to be honest.

I have four scarves, one for Guides and three for the various Venture and Scout groups I was associated. It was the fashion then to roll them up really tightly, the Scout kerchief equivalent of bootlace ties, though this made your woggles fall off more often. I'm keeping one scarf, the one I had to embroider with the Venture Unit's kestrel logo (copied off a tin of lager).

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I sorted the other box of small clothes and sent half to the charity shop. I don't have time now, so I'll stick them in the loft (and see if I magically lose another stone by walking lots round Edinburgh and being a cheap student).

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Going back to work has magically made me a size 16 again! I'm eating better, and getting more exercise. It's good for my knees, so I'm looking at the corner of my eye at size 14 ...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I'm also reminded of Flylady and her 'super fling boogie' where people post to the website with all the things they were unaccountably keeping and have now got rid of. I am always particularly amused by the thousands upon thousands of human teeth; the first time I read it I cured myself of that particular insanity and threw those I'd been keeping away -- but every time one of my babies loses a tooth I still think, oh, I should keep that. No.

[adela-terrell.livejournal.com]

My best fly-lady esque moment was having a clear out and discovered a bottle that waggott had filled with blood. On a skiing trip. And then brought home and kept...

As fly lady would say .. "Flung"

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

A few years back bugshaw was having a purge of sentimental kipple and came across one of her late Dad's baby teeth. She ummed and ahhed over this, but eventually decided it was too icky to keep.

"It's no good," she said; "I don't want the tooth."

I couldn't help myself:

"That's because you can't handle the tooth!"

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It was actually quite a large gold tooth. I kept it because I don't know how one might pass on such a thing to someone who wants it for the gold.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Also, *smite*!

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

I have just taken possession of my late grandfather's old desk (grandmother moving into home and selling house) and at the back of it was a small paper bag with one of my baby canines. I'm not throwing it out now - and Small was fascinated.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to toss my own baby teeth out, but part of that's because my Mom saved them. (Don't worry, I have plenty of other stuff that I'm getting rid of first -- and it's usually bigger, too.)

I like the photo suggestion. I'm also of a mind that such small things don't take much room by themselves and thus can easily be passed on now and tossed later, as needed.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Small tat -- yes, indeed. The photography is particularly handy for great big tat, like handmade things.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

Woggles are very useful for Japanese schoolgirl cosplay, which I have avoided doing here by leaving the Japanese schoolgirl uniform in Edinburgh, partly due to inability to find woggle.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It is easy to make a decorative plaited woggle from a scrap of leather.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Surely turk's heads are the only woggles worth having??? I think three is about right - one to wear, one for spare, and one to give away when someone realises what a wonderful thing your handmade turk's head woggle actually is... :)