Jun 22 2008
Really Awful Getting Old
You know you’re officially an old lady when you start collecting empty glass jars, because they might come in handy. Worse, when someone questions why you have said empty glass jars, you feel inclined to justify their purpose… because chucking them in the recycling bin would be too painful by far.
Just shoot me now.
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
34 Responses so far
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You think you’re old!
Wait ’till you get to my age, then you will have a whole list of things like that, ha ha!
Have you started to write lists yet? -
@Peter: I don’t function without lists… see, there’s no escaping impending senility and grey hair!
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RIP, Jem. <3
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Nah, it’s just called being a packrat. :P I have 15 Tic Tac containers that I’ll never throw out. Oh, and I definitely make lists!
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Jars ARE handy! Don’t throw them away!!!
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I do believe the only things I ever drank out of at my great-grandmother’s house were jelly jars and cleaned out glass candle holders… you know, the ones you buy in the store with the wax poured in, about the size of a small juice glass?
GREAT-grandmother, Jem. As in, three generations ago.
:P
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That’s not SO bad… I mean, at least there really *IS* a higher possibility of putting glass jars to use, as opposed to something like cardboard boxes, heh.
I cleaned out my room the other day and threw out a whole bunch of cardboard boxes, which I had been saving “just in case” I wanted to do crafts with them, or something… WTF? Who am I trying to kid?? Arts and crafts my ass — I can’t even update my website because of my laziness!
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I collect jars, boxes and paper- and I’m only 15! Because really they could come in handy. It’s not just about recycling, it’s re-using to! :D
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I have a huge collection of things that will be handy one day – jars, takeaway containers, shoe boxes.
Seriously, if I emptied my room of all these ‘just in case’ things I’d double my living space.
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Haha! I know what you mean. Everyday I find new things that make me feel old.
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I do that. Or I would if there were any jars to collect. :/
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Well.. I have a lot of empty glass jars lying around too… Although that my be my mom’s doing!
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In that case, I’ve been an old lady probably since about 17 or 18 years of age LOL.
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I was collecting glass jars for my mother, then I realised I will never take them to her and I threw them away.
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Oh they might very well come in handy. You know I do that with juice bottles, until my dad forces me to throw them out. And the next day my mom invariably needs one.
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I totally know what you mean. I have become a pack-rat in my old age. I truly believe if I throw something way, next week, maybe next day, I will need it and won’t have it. Is that just me?
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If that’s the definition of being an old lady, then I hit that little milestone about 5 years ago.
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Wait, you mean that’s not NORMAL behaviour? :O
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That’s not old, just resourceful. ;)
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See now if those were screw topped jars, and Karl had a shed, he could fasten the said jar lids to the underneaths of shelves in said shed, then use the jars for storage purposes. :)
It’s official Jem, you are beginning to resemble your poor old grey haired old lady mummy lol. -
You’re an old jar-saving cat lady, Jem. :P
But there’s uses for empty jars. Potpourri, canning fruit and veg, flowers, colored water (with the lid on top) for decoration, pre-portions of cat food, etc.
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I collect glass and plastic jars. I feel a wrinkle forming.
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I collect jars, papers, old notes, and pencils.
I am OLD. O_O
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I keep old jars. :/
And sweet wrappers.
And cardboard.
And scraps of fabric.
Really, they might come in handy one day. In fact, they do quite often!
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I spent an hour or so sorting mine out the other day. I had so many that I only kept the nicer squarer ones for this years chilli chutney and the bigger ones for paintbrushes etc.
But……. I am sure that I am older than you. -
You sound like my mother. :P We’ve finally convinced her to throw the jars away, though she was rather tearful when we got rid of the $5 gigantic CRT monitors from years ago and a broken fan. She insisted that someone might have been able to use them and would rather have put them on the curb. xD
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Haha, awww Jem :3
(hope that didn’t sound patronising lol)You’re not old ^__^
Heck I’m 16 and standing on my computer stand, right next to me is are two empty jam jars, one is for charity (collected around £6 woo) and the toher…well haven’t decided what that one is ging to become :P -
I disagree. Keeping old jars around IS handy and not limited to old people. Jars are excellent for catching fireflies in. And for storing seeds, nails, and other important things.
I think people get old when they name jars. Or crazy.
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Hey, welcome to the club. I’ve been doing that for a couple years now. :P
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Hehe, I was thinking about age earlier. I was thinking “Wow, why are people afraid of being old?”
Of course, I’m young compared to you. Sorry. If I were older than you are, I’d just stand next to you so you can appear younger and feel better. xD
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Old man says to his wife, ‘Shall we go upstairs and make love dear’?
Wife says, ‘Make your mind up, we can’t do both’!
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I keep all sorts of stuff. It’s because I am a packrat and a teacher though, not because I am old. :D
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Late comment but… Hey, being that I am older then you, and I collect glass jars, plastic bottles that I can fit a spray top to, small butter dishes if the lids still fit tight, and other collect-ee type things… if you’re now old, what’s that make me?
In case you wonder, we use the bottles with spritzer tops for spray bottles of water for laundry, or bad cats, and home made fly spray for the horses. Have you seen the chemicals they use in fly spray? That stuff can make a horse go bald!!
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No I think you are getting old when you start saving the ferrero roche boxes – in fact just eating ferrero roche makes you old!! I always think the boxes they come in will be useful one day – turns out they rarely do – a word of wisdom from the wise (old!)
