The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74060 Message #1325675
Posted By: Bat Goddess
13-Nov-04 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
I have a theory I call "interactive table cleaning."
We're "table sitters," Curmudgeon and I. Life revolves around the table in the center of the house. And stuff accumulates on the table. I'm constantly sending clippings and stuff off to people whom I hope will find the enclosures interesting. Sometimes this transfer helps keep the piles on the table under control. Mostly it's a losing battle.
Once when I was explaining the process to a friend, she asked if I sent this stuff to people I knew or to addresses taken at random from the phone book. Wow! What a concept! "Hi, you don't know me but here are some interesting items from my table that I hoped you might find interesting . . ."
I've never gotten up enough nerve to try it. And, besides, actually shovelling out cubic footage that way does get pricey -- as bad as sending rocks through the post.
I just consider myself lucky that I came home from the Nottingham Library sale a little while ago with less than I donated yesterday. (But I DID mail a book off to a friend yesterday, too . . .)
Linn