Overcome by Stuff

Besieged by junk.

 

I have too much stuff.

Everyone I know has too much stuff.

Society is about collecting stuff.

STUFF.

Shit.

Junk.

Things you don’t need.

Supposed TOYS to occupy our minds, to occupy our lives, to convince us that our lives are worth wasting away in a five by five foot cubicle for eight hours a day.

Selling our souls to the biggest sales.

Stuff.

I hate my stuff.

Today I fantasized about taking the tiny things –candle bits, old French cheese, notepads, leadless mechanical pencils- and putting them in a bag.

I’ll leave them on the back door of my apartment building, or just hand them to the homeless wheelchaired veteran who lives in the alley.

“Here, these objects are invaluable to me.  May they bring you joy”.

 

and take photos...

of our creative uses of throw-away items. Like the styrofoam cups I'm using to paint my van. Photos! Photos! Photos!

A list of things to do with this blog

Creative reusing material- chopsticks, straws, styrofoam containers

Existentialist questions, like: What are we using? How often do you throw something away? How often do you get something that's used Just ONCE and then throw away?

If you get a paper-cup at the coffee place, you're using that tree....

Garbage art.

Other obsessions...

Introduction to "Re-Use! Everything! Now!"

I have an obsession: I can't throw things away. I break my heart daily as I get an item -a plastic straw, a wooden twizzle stick, a gum wrapper- and throw it away.

Something you have to throw away (How to re-use that slightly-soiled condom...) But face it, we live in a single-use society, and it is a gluttony on par with single-digit gas mileage on the latest SUVs. We have to change.

I'm starting this site to hopefully chronical some of my better, more interesting uses for items that otherwise would go in the garbage. Also, I hope to link to sites on creative garbage art and other ways to reduce garbage. Then again, there's always going to the heart of the source, so I'll blog about cutting down on comsumption as well.

How's that for starters?

I'll also conceived this blog as part of a trifeta, along with "Reusable Chopsticks Now!" and "S.U.S.: Stop Using Styrofoam", as guerrilla internet campaigns to, you guessed it, get restaurants to switch to reusable chopsticks instead of single-use chopsticks, and stop using styrofoam all together.

Enjoy...

Dedication...

Thank you, Grandmother. May your eccentricities be passed on for generations...