Now you can have both! No need to wish you had something growing to cultivate-- even if you haven't the space, there's always room for a petri garden. They're even stackable!
Actually, some of the...um....growths...are quite lovely. They look like pen and ink designs.
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I've been ruthlessly freecycling things away lately. I have to say, I love the idea. The concept is thus: You need something. Someone else has what you need and doesn't want it any longer. They give it to you. And vice versa. Contact is made via the freecycle site and/or mailing list, on which you can post if you're offering or searching for something. The only stipulation is that it be no-strings-attached free. I can live with that. It's also nice to be able to give something you don't need to people who will use it. Makes me feel much better than throwing things out.
I've been making room around here by being a little harsh about what things we actually use and which things we just don't need to keep. It feels good to get a bit more space. The next step is to go through our gazillion books and weed out duplicates and ones that aren't worth re-reading. Then on to the forty quadrillion cds.
This is interesting: We have around three thousand cds (no joke) and we haven't bought a new one in god knows how long. It's been about a year. Not to say that we haven't bought music, it's just that it's all been in digital form. That lovely, space-saving form. I'm surprised at how utterly I don't care about having cover art and cases anymore. That all stopped when we hit critical mass on the shelves and had to resort to piling in cardboard boxes. Not only have I not bought a cd, but it's a rare occasion that I listen to one, even. In fact, it's gotten to the point where the idea of a cd is almost quaint.
Why should I bother with this physical thing that can only hold one album's worth of music, when I have a much smaller physical thing that can hold hours and hours of songs or audio books? Or better yet, I can just play them on the computer and not have to deal with any extra physical things. And even best yet, I can just stream music from Epitonic "Radio" or Pandora, and not even have to take up virtual space. It's the future! What's not to like? Digital media has also saved me countless hours of scanning shelves of cds I've never managed to put in order (though I'm sure I would subconsciously be SO much happier a person if they were alphabetized) in search of a particular disc. Go zeros and ones!
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Steph, you're totally right about CDs, they ARE almost quaint now. We always just plug in Steve's iPod, in the car, or at home, and it's much easier than hassling with finding the CDs you want. Plus it saves space, like you said. I do sort of miss actually going to store and buying a CD or selecting one from a shelf. Now it's so much easier to just download mp3s...Ah yes, it's a new era.
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