Decluttering is nice and all, but I literally keep and document random shit I find so that I can confuse a future historian.
Why is this piece of gravel being kept in an ornate box sealed with decorative tape? Is it ritual or is it aesthetic, we just don’t know!
My scrapbook isn’t of photos since most of my pictures are on the Internet, so instead it’s full of random crap I found on the floor. Playing cards, concert tickets, fortune cookie fortunes, packaging I thought looked cool.
Fuck if I know what’s going to make its way into history. Might as well keep weird shit.
Keeping the evangelist pamphlets literally for the sole purpose of being future ‘sacred texts.’
It’s a memory book! My mom had one of those. Although she also copied poems into it, so not quite the same.
I guess you could call it a memory book. I’m just calling it a scrapbook, but ‘scrap’ in a more literal sense. Like thinks that for all rhyme I should have tossed, but decided to keep because they happened to me in some way. And sometimes that memory is ‘my manager gave me an expired scratch-off’ and sometimes that memory is ‘I found this once.’
It’s just… things that I think are neat.
Like those playing cards up there were found on the floor of the lobby one morning after a Purdue v ND game and it’s not really like.. an important memory, it’s just trash. But it’s COOL trash!
I’m planning on putting poems and stuff in my book of shadows and make it all nice. That’s a different project that I’ve had to start and restart a couple times.
Got a whole different book just for greeting cards that people have sent me.
And then there’s the entire separate book dedicated to the pamphlets, which started as a ‘people keep giving these to me, I should really do something with them’ and now it’s turned a teeth-gratingly common experience into a fun pastime.
i hate when memes become outdated and i have to deprogram myself from referencing them anymore. whenever my mouth says “this is so sad” my brain immediately follows it up with “alexa play despacito” but i’m not ALLOWED to say that anymore
how DARE u make this post uplifting and cute
If my parents can use slang from the 80s without even feeling self-conscious then I can use a meme that’s a little stale
My dad knows that 1.) I hate the taste of alcohol and 2.) I will drink anything that’s poured into my custom ‘World’s Greatest Detective’ shotglass because I am a huge dweeb. He uses this against me.
You really won’t ever appreciate how cool insect wings are until you’ve seen all this footage.
The ones with wing covers that completely open up are beetles, by the way, but the ones LIKE beetles whose protective cover remains in place are bugs. Bug is supposed to be a special term for just one insect group!
Mid-way through is an earwig’s wings, which is neither a beetle nor a bug, but does have very beetle-like wing cases.
