davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

  I'd like someone to come in here & help me find homes for stuff I don't need but that isn't garbage-worthy.  It's just about impossible to sell anything here with such a limited marketplace.

I find it discouraging when nobody wants my old stuff. But then, I don't want my old stuff, so why should anybody else want it? "But it's still good. It's still useful. Somebody could use it for...." Uh huh. So the old stuff stays put.

Scary thing is, I can look around me and think, "I am SO TIRED of all this crap!" But I can pick up any one single item and immediately know why I have it, why I'm keeping it, and what I might use it for... "someday."

Like, yesterday I picked up a little plastic hook off the counter. I think it was one of those plastic hooks that socks hang on in the stores. I was heading toward the trash bin and I paused. "Y'know, this might make a neat little handle on that 1/6-scale spaceship diorama I want to build. Or, with a bit of paint, it would work as-is as a futuristic space weapon for an action figure." So the little plastic hook found its way out to the storage shed where it was dropped in to one of the several boxes of random bits and pieces that "might come in useful" for decorating a dollhouse or action figure diorama. I'll never see that hook again, or at least not for a very long time, and in a day or two I'll forget it ever existed until I stumble across it, years hence, if I ever happen to look through one of those supply bins.

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12 March - A Doll A Day 2025:

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