“James Ward keeps his collection of office supplies at his mother’s house outside London because his flat in Brixton, which he shares with a roommate, is too small. He says his mother, a former librarian, has ‘come to terms’ with the arrangement”: “A Collector Sees the Potential in a Humble Paper Clip” (The New York Times).
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September 7: I just hit page 114 in Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up : “Your parents’ home is not a haven for mementos.” And one page later: “Even if the house is large with rooms to spare, it is not some infinitely expanding fourth dimension.” Mr. Ward, heed Ms. Kondo’s words. Send your supplies to me.
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[James Ward is the author of The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession (2015).]
Saturday, September 5, 2015
James Ward’s supplies
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I used Marie's method recently to get rid of about half of my clothes; I didn't think I even HAD that many clothes.
Books are next but it would take me a weekend to go through them all. I have 3 big bookcases, so maybe I'll do one bookcase at a time. Trouble is, books give me such joy anyway that I may have to change the question to thin out the herd.
In the course of emptying my office, I gave away hundreds of books. I haven’t missed them. But I also brought home hundreds and hundreds more. I recall Ms. Kondo saying that she keeps thirty books at home. Thirty! I couldn’t live like that either.
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