accretions

[totient]

Inspired by hotpoint, who shares some of my guilty pleasures: it's not so much that I collect things, as that I accrete them. I bring things home and then notice that a lot of them are similar. The next time I organize I put all the similar things together. And lo, now there is a place for things that are similar to those, and so there they all go when they might otherwise be discarded.

I recently gave my hard key accretion to cogitationitis. Anyone want a hotel key accretion? I have enough of them to make clothing out of, but let's face it, I'm never really going to make a copier. I'm also thinking of focusing some of my other accretions some.

I don't mean to imply that these accretions are a bad thing, necessarily; some of them have come in handy. And it may be that I'm willing to become a community repository for certain kinds of resources...

Comments

[scliff.livejournal.com]

You can sell the hotel keys on EBay for a small gain, if you have a variety. Evidently there are collectors.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Ctan has been selling hotel keys on ebay - you might consider same or offer them to her :)

[shayde.livejournal.com]

Huh. Hotel keys on ebay? How odd. I have tons of them - but I also have convention badges :) They look... remarkably similar. :)

[civic-oracle.livejournal.com]

Positive spin is your friend. ;-)

Better to be a community repository than a junk collector, any day!

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

You can sell them on EBay. Ask CTan.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Ok, so how many people on your friends list have heard CTan's stories of her adventures on ebay recently? Many, I think. :)

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

eBay was going to be my first suggestion until I read the other comments...

But then, I spend every Tuesday and the occasional Wednesday with Cecilia.

(Did you know you can sell your big bowl o'wine bottle corks on eBay too? And smut! We sell smut on eBay. But ssssshhhhh! Don't tell them.)

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

Frotz may want to add them to his hotel key accretion. I'll poke him about it.

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'd be happy to have them; they're not worth more than trivial amounts of cash to me, though. (And, actually, if I could simply borrow them briefly that would be sufficient for research purposes.)

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

Well, I was going to suggest getting creative with plastic modeling glue, but apparently, some other people truly want them.

By the way, your keys went to the Essex Art Center, which is a nice non-profit that supports artists in the Merrimack Valley, especially Lawrence. (www.essexartcenter.com) An artist there is doing a project with them, AFAIK. My daughter's art class loved them, too.