Starving Paper
I hold onto old magazines and various paper bits. I like to collage and cut up paper, but I don’t do it enough to warrant the amount of paper I keep. I am often “encouraged” to toss the printed matter that stacks up in and around my abode… rightly so, really. I may be borderline pack rat.
She can also use it to stuff in the cracks around windows/doors. or make a paper mache fireplace and paint it and sit in front of it and pretend its warming…lol
I’ve known quite a few paper hoarders over the years ( MYSELF INCLUDED.)
I am always worried about fire. Fire isn’t funny.
I grew up in a house that had crumpled newspaper for insulation. That house got so cold in the winter, we had to go outside to warm up!
If their apartment building is as rickety as it’s made out to be, the giant paper stash upstairs may soon repurpose its own self into a giant paper smash downstairs.
Ya, know, brig… If you’ve got a whole buncha paper aboot. you otta see if you can get yer mitts on some dem old fashioned wire coat-hang’em’ups and then combo ’em (paper & wire frames) into paper mache creations (Squid characters, tikis, totems, exotic parrots, fish…) ready for paint’in, display’in and even sell’in.
Next on Hoarders: Rye does an intervention.
So true! I am glad we have a basement, wait, or am I? Hmmmm.
According to post on FB, Brig is home and sick. Her cat has presented her with a dead(?) earthworm in hopes that she will feel better.
I don’t have any earthworms to send, but I hope she gets better anyway.
Aren’t most of us? You should see my scary stack of unread magazines, stacked neatly in organized piles and artfully hidden behind the stacks of fabric I have! Yes, I have several obsessions–though I am making an effort this year to weed them out. We have moved several times in the last couple of years and I’m tired of moving them.
If it makes you feel better, artists are not the only species to exhibit this behavior. For evidence, I present to you the boxes full of computer magazines printed back in the 80’s still stuffed in my closet up at my Dad’s house.
Hey, one of the advantages of getting older is I may cry at the thought of my childhood hobby becoming an “antique” but part of me wonders “so how much is it WORTH now …”.
Hello, Squiddies….
Thank you Joe… I was, indeed, sick and spent the ENTIRE day (Saturday) in various stages of sleepitude. Some people wait their entire week for Sat. I slept mine off. Sigh. As I write, I am feeling much better and made it the office (it being monday). Forgive if I answer your comments here collectively.
Paper mache is a most wonderful thing! However, with the weather as cold and damp as it is now, wouldn’t do fare well. I do love me some paper crafts!
My sympathies to all the pack rats in this group. I wind up feeling overwhelmed by my collections of stuff, because I don’t go thru them enough. So they stack. I’m a pile-r. This is a habit…. and it runs in the family.
Insulation? with paper? mold? I do, however use newspapers in my truck… where I have a leak. It soaks up moisture and it’s great for washing windows (no kid…. try it sometime with some windex… no streaks… things you learn from growing up in military housing -when you used to be responsible for cleaning the house when you left… MILITARY CLEAN).
Grey Wolf… you are a computer person, yes?
Programmer by hobby, encouraged by the wife to take a shot at making it a career but doesn’t look like it panned out – too many people trying for too many jobs for a company to want a newbie in his 40’s. Ah well – still a fun hobby. Working tech support at a major cable company now.
(but don’t let that stop ya cracking on your internet provider, I hear it all day long, skin’s pretty thick by now :P)