Michele Grant (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} opadit) wrote,@ 2008-05-01 09:04:00 |
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de-cluttering update: found an old campaign button
Quick update while I get some exam prep done.
Over the weekend, I emptied a "bag of doom" [1] from my last move. I forget what I was looking for. Mostly the bag was irritating me because it was sitting in the way of something else in my bedroom clothes closet. (The bag itself is a travel bag that must have been a promo give-away from some baseball game in the late '70s or early '80s. It's the size and shape of the older carry-on flight bags that you see hipsters carrying, it's red, and it says "Phillies" in that 1975-1990 style, the way they had it back when they last won the World Series.) It's a fun bag, though the zipper is a little wonky, and I'm happy to get use of it again now that it's emptied. It's a good size for carrying sunblock, a wallet, a hat, and a light jacket in the summer.
But my point, now that I'm getting to it, is that in the bag was a CARTER-MONDALE campaign button thatglaucon gave me several years ago. It's green and white, and a quick google search indicates that it's from the 1976 election. I've put it on the denim jacket that I wear almost every day, and it's made some people smile. So that's good.
[1] Bags and boxes of disorganized last-minute stuff, from junk drawers and countertops, that doesn't feel right to put in a landfill but doesn't really have a good place to go.
Quick update while I get some exam prep done.
Over the weekend, I emptied a "bag of doom" [1] from my last move. I forget what I was looking for. Mostly the bag was irritating me because it was sitting in the way of something else in my bedroom clothes closet. (The bag itself is a travel bag that must have been a promo give-away from some baseball game in the late '70s or early '80s. It's the size and shape of the older carry-on flight bags that you see hipsters carrying, it's red, and it says "Phillies" in that 1975-1990 style, the way they had it back when they last won the World Series.) It's a fun bag, though the zipper is a little wonky, and I'm happy to get use of it again now that it's emptied. It's a good size for carrying sunblock, a wallet, a hat, and a light jacket in the summer.
But my point, now that I'm getting to it, is that in the bag was a CARTER-MONDALE campaign button that
glaucon gave me several years ago. It's green and white, and a quick google search indicates that it's from the 1976 election. I've put it on the denim jacket that I wear almost every day, and it's made some people smile. So that's good.[1] Bags and boxes of disorganized last-minute stuff, from junk drawers and countertops, that doesn't feel right to put in a landfill but doesn't really have a good place to go.
