confessions from the bourgeois

[dragonladyflame]

Notwithstanding all my tough talk about not owning too many books because they take up space and I'm a nomad, baby, or trying to cut down on my clothes (good luck), or my assertions that if my room was burned to the ground I wouldn't miss much besides my computer, I am having a difficult time cleaning out my room in my father's apartment. Perhaps

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[foxfour]

a dragon masque?

i wish you luck.

[dragonladyflame]

Yes, masque. Mock my linguistic patterns at your peril, fellow trickster!

[cogshiftingman]

I beg you to get rid of the inflatable cricket.

The rest: keep it. You are right in thinking it may come in useful one day. Or, more likely, you will regret not having it in a few years.

If you don't want the orange bottle tops after all, send them this way, I need some little trays for my transistors.

[dragonladyflame]

You beg me? But why? It's done nothing to you.

[cogshiftingman]

Begging was going a little too far.

[dragonladyflame]

I could always mail you something. Perhaps the inflatable cricket?

[heliograph]

Sell it on eBay. That way you know someone actually wants it (you're not throwing it away) but you're still getting rid of it. And you'll get some cash to buy more stuff you don't need. Or you can donate the proceeds to charity.

As far as biggening the shoes: I sold women's shoes for a couple of years on straight commission. The real horror was helping the women who'd been wearing shoes that looked good but didn't fit for their entire lives. Just don't.

[dragonladyflame]

I thought about selling some of it on eBay, but there's listing costs, and I'm not even going to be able to take most of this stuff with me so I'd have to persuade my dad to mail it to recipients or something (I'd rather not even ask him to go to the trouble) ... and from what I can tell, eBay is getting fewer and fewer bidders these days. If there were a flea market or something where I could sell some of these things, I'd do it in a second! -- but there isn't really.

But can't you get shoes enlarged? ... might take some effort, but seems possible ....

[heliograph]

OK, if not eBay, there's always donating it to Goodwill, or your local Goodwill equivalent. Then you can pretend someone else will get use out of it.

I dunno what tag/yard sales are like where you live, but here people drive for miles to come and liberate your old stuff. Your stuff even sounds interesting. All you have to do is throw a classified ad in the paper and put up some signs.

Concerning the shoe thing... typically what you do when a shoe doesn't fit is alter it in a way that's really bad for the shoe wearer. If a shoe is too small you put inserts in the toe or heal, but if it is too small you just stretch it. This appears to work for leather shoes (but still really bad for your feet) but for synthetics it would be pretty difficult.

Embiggening the shoes is probably only slightly worse for you than having your feet bound.

[dragonladyflame]

Damn. Well, I guess now I just have to find a small-footed girl worthy of these shoes. Thanks for the heads up, anyway.

[queenofolupitoo]

My dear Lydia,

YES! I relate strongly. My room at my parents' house is slowly gathering more boxes, mostly filled with useless pieces of paper (eg, programs from concerts that I swear I'm going to put into scrapbooks and have them be all pretty useless pieces of paper...)

Today my Mommy announced that she wanted my brothers and I to sort through our clothes and take what doesn't fit/we don't wear to goodwill.

This is absurd coming from the woman who complains about her mother having gotten rid of her childhood clothes when she was in college (otherwise I could have used them!) and whose father gave me a lecture within the past week about how you can never have too many clothes.

I'm all about never throwing anything out, ever. Good luck with that.

[dragonladyflame]

If you ever make a scrapbook out of your old programmes, tell me and I shall draw hope from the knowledge.