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Jan. 1st, 2001 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So far, I have noticed that I have little or no connection to just about anything on my dresser. A few candleholders are staying, as are a few small boxes. I can't decide about a small asian scene, a house or temple with cranes cased-in with glass and bamboo, which I got almost 10 years ago; the giver and I stopped being friends a year ago because she had been treating me... more and more poorly, and I finally drew a line. I like the scene, and it brings back pleasant memories, and the only thing making me want to not keep it is the idea of dusting it for the next 50 or so years.
Realised, though, that I have no desire to keep certain small cherished items, no idea why they meant anything to me anymore. My little melamine tray of the Eiffel Tower? Whatever. An art-deco-ish purple pressed-glass perfume bottle my mom gave me for Christmas in the early 90s which has never held a single drop of scent? Boring. A thousand little candle holders? bleah. I'm keeping a glass box with flowers pressed in the lid, an inlaid indian carved soapwood box, and probably one of my four jewelry boxes, at least one of which has nothing in it, and another one of which was from the stepgrandmother I had that big definitive argument with a few months ago (IE, I don't want it or feel that I have to keep it).
So much stuff, all because I can be too sentimental to get rid of things.
Tell me, why are all the jewelry boxes I ever see either "American Country" cheese, or overdone Chinese lacquer things? I bought a gigantic old jewelry box for around $20 over the summer. It's a nasty wood shade, but the shape is all squarish and the drawers have a lovely blue velvet lining, and I want to repaint it so that each drawer is a different primary color. I have to start refinishing and USING it, so I won't have a big stack on my dresser anymore.
I don't even wear jewelry that often. A few necklaces and bracelets I like, a couple of watches, the occasional ring. You'd never know it to see all the things I have! That's pretty much the overarcing theme in my life, come to think of it.
*sigh*
So far, I have noticed that I have little or no connection to just about anything on my dresser. A few candleholders are staying, as are a few small boxes. I can't decide about a small asian scene, a house or temple with cranes cased-in with glass and bamboo, which I got almost 10 years ago; the giver and I stopped being friends a year ago because she had been treating me... more and more poorly, and I finally drew a line. I like the scene, and it brings back pleasant memories, and the only thing making me want to not keep it is the idea of dusting it for the next 50 or so years.
Realised, though, that I have no desire to keep certain small cherished items, no idea why they meant anything to me anymore. My little melamine tray of the Eiffel Tower? Whatever. An art-deco-ish purple pressed-glass perfume bottle my mom gave me for Christmas in the early 90s which has never held a single drop of scent? Boring. A thousand little candle holders? bleah. I'm keeping a glass box with flowers pressed in the lid, an inlaid indian carved soapwood box, and probably one of my four jewelry boxes, at least one of which has nothing in it, and another one of which was from the stepgrandmother I had that big definitive argument with a few months ago (IE, I don't want it or feel that I have to keep it).
So much stuff, all because I can be too sentimental to get rid of things.
Tell me, why are all the jewelry boxes I ever see either "American Country" cheese, or overdone Chinese lacquer things? I bought a gigantic old jewelry box for around $20 over the summer. It's a nasty wood shade, but the shape is all squarish and the drawers have a lovely blue velvet lining, and I want to repaint it so that each drawer is a different primary color. I have to start refinishing and USING it, so I won't have a big stack on my dresser anymore.
I don't even wear jewelry that often. A few necklaces and bracelets I like, a couple of watches, the occasional ring. You'd never know it to see all the things I have! That's pretty much the overarcing theme in my life, come to think of it.
*sigh*
