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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 15:36:28 GMT
I remember clearing out the kids' bedrooms and bagging up all the soft toys they'd (I'd) collected over the years - not the really precious ones (Ziggy and Little Ted still very much part of the family!) but all still had memories attached. I took them to a local charity shop and a while later, I happened to walk past and saw some of them sitting outside on top of old tables. My heart flipped and it was all I could do not to rush over and buy them all back. Couldn't walk past that shop for a very long time afterwards! I helped out in a charity shop for a few months. Do you know the main customers for second hand soft toys ? Dog owners who give them to their dogs to play with. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 21, 2019 16:38:31 GMT
I think the anthropomorphisation of toys is the worst thing we can possibly do to children Do WE do it to them? Don't the children do it themselves, at least to a significant extent? The little idiots. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 17:18:10 GMT
Of course children do it themselves, but it's amazing how stories like The Velveteen Rabbit and Rumer Godden's The Doll's House can legitimise it.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 21, 2019 18:03:57 GMT
Of course children do it themselves, but it's amazing how stories like The Velveteen Rabbit and Rumer Godden's The Doll's House can legitimise it. True. It's not the WORST thing we do to children though. |
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Post by glossie on Jan 21, 2019 18:07:34 GMT
Well, my boys were in their 30s when I cleared out the 'teds' so I don't think they have been too traumatised...oh, wait...could explain a few things...hmmm...  I seem to remember that Forgotten Toys programme. I know I used to watch more kids' TV than them. Foxy Fables - one of my absolute favourites. Oh, and Treacle People! Brilliant! Thanks Backdrifter or @time4t now I'm traumatised   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 18:21:01 GMT
Of course children do it themselves, but it's amazing how stories like The Velveteen Rabbit and Rumer Godden's The Doll's House can legitimise it. True. It's not the WORST thing we do to children though. I think it's at least top ten of the most benign worst things we do. Beating a child is obviously worse, and most parents won't do it, but surely every parent plays along with the idea that your toys have feelings and it shouldn't be harmful and yet it causes weird anguish decades later. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 21, 2019 18:22:20 GMT
Ah, sorry glossie. Treacle People?! That one I don't know. Did kids of the 80s & 90s get similar creepy drama series to what we got in the 70s? I'm thinking back to stuff I remember like The Changes, Carrie's War, the one based on Marianne Dreams and the one where the standing stones started moving. God those shows unnerved me. Excellent! To bring it back on topic, I couldn't resist adding to my "clutter" by buying The Changes on dvd when it was released a couple of years ago. |
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Post by glossie on Jan 21, 2019 18:59:07 GMT
Children of the Stones? I can remember catching it sometimes but only when I was home from work. I think the most scary childrens TV when I were a lass was Twizzle and Torchy the Battery Boy!!
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 21, 2019 20:29:25 GMT
I'm now guiltily looking at the cuddly toys, sitting on top of the book shelves just in front of me, which I'd can't bear to throw away. The Barbies are in a drawer under my bed. I'm theoretically 33.
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Post by sf on Jan 21, 2019 20:42:43 GMT
I honestly thought this thread was going to be about Marie Kondo when I saw the subject, I was all ready to come in swinging with a "she isn't saying you have to get rid of all your books, stop misrepresenting her!". 
Well... her methods do appear to be a little on the draconian side:
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 22, 2019 8:27:58 GMT
Currently having a bit of a purge - going through a box of old letters and cards that has been in a cupboard for years and wondering why on earth I saved most of it. Highlights include several wedding invitations that have outlasted the marriages in question.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 22, 2019 9:11:06 GMT
Not the point you were making, Xanderl, but dispensing of your spouse/partner could be considered an extreme form of decluttering! And re the marriages: my former employer used to give staff an extra week's leave on marriage - though of course nothing for those who chose instead to live together, as OH and I did. I had colleagues who benefited twice from this concession as they divorced and remarried, which made it seem doubly inequitable. The extra leave allowance has long gone but 32 years on, OH and I are still together... |
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 22, 2019 12:48:33 GMT
What I've found really interesting going through this box (which I've probably not looked in for at least 20 years ...) is how many people I was corresponding in handwritten letters when I was at University back in the pre-email and social media days of the mid 80s. At least I assume I was writing to them as they were writing to me on a regular basis. Mostly people I've now completely lost touch with.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 22, 2019 13:15:51 GMT
I've just seen a headline alleging that charity shops are falling to their knees in thanks to Kondo.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 22, 2019 15:09:23 GMT
In fact the piece on the BBC site quotes one charity shop worker saying a man was so inspired by seeing Kondo's show, "he cleared out his mother's whole house." I've got this image of his mum's house completely gutted, its entire contents piled up in this shop including the mum herself gloomily sitting there and sighing, with a price tag dangling from her ear.
This woman must be stopped!
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Post by lynette on Jan 22, 2019 15:13:23 GMT
I've just seen a headline alleging that charity shops are falling to their knees in thanks to Kondo. I know! So funny. Well, I hope the charities do well. They have my joyless sweaters....and a few handbags...we have four or maybe five charity shops within a couple of hundred yards where I live ( and a brilliant furniture shop run by the local hospice just a further hundred years ) and they are in fact the most Interesting shops on the high street. People travel for miles for a trendy 'brocante' or flea market, don’t they? Just come to mine, I’ll show you round. |
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Post by nick on Jan 25, 2019 7:28:53 GMT
So you don't buy CDs or any modern music? All of which is digitised. It depends how you digitise it. There are "lossless" formats that keep all the quality. No I meant non-physical formats such as streaming. I do buy CDs. What are these lossless formats? Even with that, I still like having a physical product that has an element of design. Sorry to be slow replying. FLAC is probably the most popular. The Guardian have an article today about formats: www.theguardian.com/info/2019/jan/25/balancing-quality-and-performance-audio-advice-for-voice-apps |
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