YET ANOTHER TWO YEARS - Oct. 08 2022

 

This time - I'm now 84 years - and I want to get my attic re-insulated since it looks like a fuel crisis may be looming this coming winter. Joey and I started bringing 'stuff' down from the attic a few months ago. Boxes and boxes of 'things I might want to keep' are now in what used to be called my 'Workroom', but although the name remains, the function now is storage - both immediate, and longer term.

The blog began September 22 2010 - that is the end of the summer, a few weeks after I had achieved my BA degree in FineArt Media (see http://threwout.blogspot.com/2010/09/)

I began without much explanation from just where I was that day.

Some months later, in June 2011, I added an EXPLANATION which included this sentence:

The blog originated because I had and still have such great difficulty throwing out my accumulations of ephemera over a long number of years.

and later included the statement that I was planning  

a policy of DIGITIZE AND DISPOSE - at least that's the theory - digital documentation doesn't take up so much room! 

So here I am in October 2022 - twelve years and a month, since I began this marathon.

I wish I could feel more positive about what I have done so far - Even just scanning the occasional entry here and there during those 12 years, first of all I feel DISCOURAGED at the number of entries, so full of hope that the 'throwing out task' was about to be completed.

But now, I'm saying to myself that this 'discouragement' is a self-imposed 'action' that I am causing by entertaining 'EXPECTATIONS that lead to DISAPPOINTMENTS' and then to FRUSTRATION.

Well, says I to myself, "that's no way to restart this PROJECT"

The fact is that "to know is to know that I don't know". It could be that 2022 will only have one or two entries, as other years have done - but it could also be that I will do some constructive work on part of the PROJECT, again as I did in other years.

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That's a lot of words, and not an ACTION in sight.

As I turn in my chair, beside me on the table is something that came to light in the attic.

This is a MILLENIUM MILK BOTTLE from 1988, the year Dublin City celebrated 1000 years.

Nowadays, milk is provided in a container now called 'tetra pak' .

I'm trying to decide whether to keep it or not. I need to ask myself some questions, and when I answer them I can see which of my ideas come from Adult thinking, and which from Child, or Parent thinking. (I'm a big fan of Transactional Analysis. my old blog - which I've not intention of 'throwing out' is at http://homepage.eircom.net/~liztai37/)

QUESTIONS:

1. Why might I keep this?
2. Why might I discard this?
3. What value does it have?
4. What kind of value does it have?
5. Which values am I considering when making entries to this blog?
6. Where might I keep this item if I decide to KEEP this?
7. How long might this location be available/suitable for this item?
8. If I have to re-locate this item, where will I put it then?
9. How will I dispose of this item if I decide not to keep it.

WOW that's a lot of questions for just one item.

Now I'm hungry, and going to stop for lunch.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes me to get back to writing my next blog-entry!

Meantime, the milk bottle is on the table beside me - not in the way of anything, as I recently cleared this table - BUT soon I will make a decision about it - and I'm telling myself that I don't want it to be a case of "DECIDING NOT TO DECIDE"

Wondering is there a WONDER FOOD that makes deciding easy?