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Creating something out of nothing or recycled material
You have donated enough. Create an 'installation' with old stuff and sell it. The higher the price the more the viewing public will want it; even if it is ugly. See my recent entry on Dodgy Answers to UtahJay's Question
posted by
Setaki
on August 13, 2013 at 1:11 PM
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My dear friend When we first got married I decorated our flat with vinil records all over the walls. That and paintings my new husband did was all we could afford to put on the walls loll I was never happier!
Oh Taps... that is just the answer... "pleasure in creating" I would just ad to that the satisfaction of "saving" something no one wants :-) Look, I love to recycle things... Just finished making little vases out of apple juice tinny bottles my grandson drinks by the dozen... They have a really sweet shape. Just little strips of magazine pages ( the glossy ads work best! ) soaked in a mixture of water and elmer s glue and applied on the surface of the bottles , practically one on top of another to cover all the glass... let it dry, apply a shinny coat of glaze...and there you have it... It took me all of 1 hour to do all three dozens with my grandsons and I will use them on my B-day dinner party as individual place markers with maybe a gardenia inside ( Love Gardenias!) For the tables my granddaughters made "charger" plates out of big cardboard circles covered with the same process I described above... White paper plates would not look so plain on those beautiful charger plates and the love it took to make them will make the whole thing even more special for me... I know some will say is tacky... that I am cheap... that I am loosing it loll but hey... Its my B-day pick nick and I have the last word loll. ( I better get up and move around before they start sticking little strips of paper on me too loll) Anyway, my point is that whatever makes you happy is what you should do and who ever tells you to "donate" your precious projects you tell them to go donate themselves :-) Be well darling xoxo
posted by
Sinome
on August 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM
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Re: Re: Kabu
totally agree !!!!!
posted by
Kabu
on August 8, 2013 at 12:44 PM
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Re: Kabu
"Pleasure in creating" -- that is the important part, whether it turns out good or not, whether anyone else likes it or not. One should keep trying no matter what for their own wellbeing and pleasure.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 8, 2013 at 1:19 AM
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IO am beginning to give things I don't need to a friend who makes a few pounds at Boot Sales. It saves the worry of wondering who to give it to or whether they want it or just accept it to be polite. Nice little poem.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM
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I am sorry for I was one that suggested that you donate the suit cases...I see your point and understand your annoyance....
actually I am not selling my rocks. I pop them in the garden to add fun and I have given a few away as gifts. I don't and Wiley doesn't have the oomph to go to a market just to pay for a site and maybe sell, maybe not. I have found pleasure in just creating.
posted by
Kabu
on August 7, 2013 at 7:23 PM
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My wife is pretty good at taking certain old things and "recrafting" them into usable items, but time is usually the factor as to whether or not these projects can get off the ground. And I think people were just trying to help in suggesting certain things can be "donated." It's better than simply throwing them away . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on August 7, 2013 at 12:57 PM
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I think I am bad in this...
posted by
Saif_AlKindi
on August 7, 2013 at 12:37 PM
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Some people (myself included) just aren't very good at projects like that. I see the potential for stuff, but haven't the time or inclination to actually create the thing. I have a large cardboard tube in my basement, which was once the container for some construction material. I kept it because the plan was to make a cat house. 6 years later, I still have a boring old cardboard tube and my cat still sits on the couch...I really should throw that thing out...
posted by
Mia890
on August 7, 2013 at 12:22 PM
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Some people think it must be manufactured, and new or it's not worth
having. I always found more life in renewal, original, adapted stuff. Maybe I'm a pack rat or hoarder, but every once in a while some old thing I've tucked away "just in case" reminds me of good times and good people. Perhaps you were right all along. 
posted by
Pat_B
on August 7, 2013 at 12:03 PM
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Well, you didn't get that response from the creative people in here!You have an exceptional talent for words - if the same is used to create other things there will be no need at all to donate - people will pay for it. As for Kabu's rocks, I intend to sneak one whenever I go back there, but shhhh.
Cute ditty and love that music!
posted by
adnohr
on August 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM
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I have never been told that maybe what I made could be donated. The reason is because I do not recall making anything with my hands as a hobby.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 7, 2013 at 10:29 AM
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