I know you've all heard of sticker shock ... Well, my friends, I am going to redefine the term for you! As those of you closest to me know, I have some extra time on my hands right now. Because of this, I have been trying to reorganize my house. Out with the old ....and no more new! I need to do these things...really, I haven't seen the bottom of some of this crap since before I moved into this condo and sadly, I have been here for 8 and a half years! So, yesterday I decided to go through these containers that have been stacked on my craft table since I moved in. Within the stacks I found spools of brand new ribbon, brand new glue sticks that had shriveled and died before I ever even opened the package and dust bunnies! I was mortified by the dust bunnies!! They were dust bunnies on steroids at best! It was frightening, to say the least. However, the most humiliating part of my mission yesterday was the discovery of boxes filled with aged stickers! I have not minced words in the past of my serious addiction to stickers! I love stickers! I buy them when I don't need them ... I mean, who actually "needs" a sticker? I do use them, but unfortunately, I do not use them as quickly as I should .... kind of like food storage that never gets rotated! Anyway, as I was rifling through this sticker container I found a Hallmark sack full of stickers purchased when??? I found the receipt! They were purchased in Trumbull Connecticut February 1988! YES PEOPLE!!! I SAID 1988!!!! You do the math! That is a 23 year old bag of stickers!!! Not only did I waste $10.41 cents in 1988 ... They are stickers that have lost their stick ability! They can no longer fill the measure of their creation! So, in reality, I murdered the stickers!! They lost their lives because of my greed for " more " and my lack of organizational skill and discipline! Please forgive me!
I have now confessed ... however,I must leave you now, there is a sticker sale at Hobby Lobby and I can't miss it!
5 comments:
That is so funny! You have such creative writing. You "murdered the stickers...." Hilarious!
I know we must be related. I have tons of stickers too. We even bought a sticker recently that had fallen off the sticker paper because it had lost its stick. It was very cheap but we still paid for a dead sticker. I wonder if there is a Sticker Anonymous that we could attend.
"BACK AWAY FROM THE STICKERS, JANA. Back away slowly, and no more stickers will be murdered."
"In other news, The Original Scrapbook USA Expo rolls in to Sandy, Utah March 25 & 26. Word on the street is 'stickers will be selling at all-time lowwww prices. Check back later for more details. This is Scrappy Stickbooker reporting live on the street."
i love your post....My mom must have been your mother in another life...she loved stickers too. She even bought a machine that she could make other things into stickers... Your stickers that you murdered could become stickers again with this machine...Good luck...I love dust bunnies maybe mine could become friends with yours....
You have to buy glue again...you can reuse the stickers with just a little dab of glue : ) Problem solved, stickers saved!!!
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