I acquire junk.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think of it as junk, not when I first order it online or grab it at a yard sale or take it for free from a table at work. But it\u2019s true. It\u2019s junk.<\/p>\n
And it sits in the corners of rooms, on my desk at work, on our kitchen table at home, in our closets, until one day, both Katie and I are cleaning and we come upon something so bizarre and completely impractical that all we can do is stop and stare at it.<\/p>\n
We both will look at each other, silently saying the following in our heads:<\/p>\n
Katie: <\/strong>What is this thing and can we throw it away? Over the years, it really does become a bit appalling. Did I really have such an obsession with cheap\/free knickknacks and fast food toys? How does one person even collect so much useless stuff? Why can\u2019t I just throw away my old and completely outdated technology from the 1990s?<\/p>\n Partially laziness, partially nostalgia, partially stubbornness? Probably mostly laziness, as I don\u2019t even particularly feel attached to most of the stuff we\u2019ve crammed into the back of our closets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I acquire junk. I don\u2019t think of it as junk, not when I first order it online or grab it at a yard sale or take it for free from a table at work. But it\u2019s true. It\u2019s junk. And it sits in the corners of rooms, on my desk at work, on our kitchen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51,120,258],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-cleaning","tag-consumerism","tag-nostalgia","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Scott:<\/strong> But it\u2019s a cool unique kind of thing! Is it in the way? Maybe I might use it someday.
Katie: <\/strong>You\u2019re never going to use it. It doesn\u2019t even work\/fit you\/have a purpose.
Scott:<\/strong> Maybe I\u2019ll use it in an art project?
Katie: <\/strong>You don\u2019t do art projects.
Scott: <\/strong>Maybe you\u2019ll use it in an art project?
Katie: <\/strong>Sigh.
Scott: <\/strong>I\u2019m sorry. And ashamed.<\/p>\n