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11 rotary dial phones & 1296 gift cards [day 231]
A few years ago, in my “excessable” art show, I had a gift card rug made out of 1296 gifts cards from different stores. The show was in July and I left the rug in the car a little too … Continue reading
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Tagged 11, 1296, art, basement, bell, black, card, cards, carpet, crazy, day 231, design, excessable, foyer, frisco, gallery, gift, gift cards, hang, hanging, help, home, jump, keep, kids, landfill, light blue, melt, moms, old, orange, phone, phones, photos, pile, pink, red, retail, retro, rotary, rotary dial, rug, sculpture, shopping, show, showing, silo, stuff, talk, taped, texas, together, toolbox, video, vintage, white, yellow
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A post Christmas story of be longing [flashback]
This was written 4 days after Christmas last year on my blog iembracechaos.com. What is out of the ordinary? Choosing to help others and live differently in a way that changes life as we know it. My kids really didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged action, addict, after, be, belonging, book, books, christmas, coffee, consumerism, cultural, death, die, excess, excessable, fantasy, flashback, gift, gifts, guitar, hunting, inanimate objects, inspiration, lame, lame gifts, long, longings, love, photogram, photography, possessions, retail, return lines, shop, shopping, sleigh, star, store, stores, stuff, symbol, t-shirt, thrift, treasure, triggers, wars
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shopaholics are cute :) [day 213]
I had to go to the grocery store for a couple of things, and as I was walking through the store, I found something that seemed a little off. Shopaholic wine glasses. Cute, right? Not so much. The definition of … Continue reading
Posted in excessable, save $, the challenge
Tagged addict, addicts, alcohol, alcoholic, anything, bad, bad habit, bankruptcy, compulsive, CSD, cute, day 213, debt, disorder, drug, drugs, gambling, gift, habit, intervention, program, programs, rehab, rehabilitation, relapse, sex, shop, shopaholic, shopper, shopping, store, stuff, temporary high
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white elephant gifts [day 209]
As usual, I had to look up some information on this. The white elephant gift exchange is defined on Wikipedia like this: A white elephant gift exchange is a popular holiday party game found primarily in North America. It has many variations in … Continue reading
Posted in dumpster diving, excessable, ideas, repurposed, salvaged, save $, the challenge
Tagged baa, bah humbug, bells, book, books, christmas, cleaning, cost, crabby, date, dating, day 209, dirty santa, elephant, entertain, exchange, flood, frog, funny, gain, game, get a date, gift, gifts, goal, holiday, ideas, jelly beans, kiss, kit, magic, no money, parcel pass, play, poop, prince, regift, regifting, sadie hawkins, sheep, shopping, strand, tangled, thrift store, tinsel, tips, topiary, tree, used, useless, value, WE, whack-a-mouse, white, wiki, wikipedia, wine, wine bottle, worth, yankee swap
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used book and trinket gifts [day 208]
A couple of years ago, they started the “360 feedback” process at work. I’m a fan of it if people use it correctly, but I don’t want to wait until the end of the year to get zapped for something … Continue reading
Posted in repurposed, the challenge, trashograms
Tagged alphabet, alternative, book, bookmarks, books, clean the garage, credit cards, doll chair, found objects, gift, gifts, ibeam, lost and found, necessary notes, note cards, objects, pencil, pin, pointer, presents, random, repurposed, scan, smiley face, stack, string, trash, trashograms, trinkets, used book, wine cork, wooden doll, word beads, word craft, your name here
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cool art made from junk mail [day 207]
I got an awesome little gift a few days ago, unexpected and very much related to trash society. The gift? An origami box with a photo album inside, all made with junk mail and paper stuff from the recycling bin. Check it out…
Posted in ideas, recycle, salvaged, the challenge
Tagged ads, advertisements, album, art, artistic, bin, box, brain, charts, cool, craftsmanship, creative, day 207, design, details, earth, free, free art supplies, frisco, gift, gifts, handmade gifts, happy, heart, jake ryan, junk, junkmail, landfill, magazine, mail, mailers, meaningful, music, non-holiday, origami, photo, photos, planet, postcards, purpose, random, recycling, repurposed, reused, save, sheet music, sixteen candles, string, style, t-shirt, thought that counts, thoughtful, used
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Christmas gift with shredded money [trashogram]
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Tagged box, christmas tree, gift, money, money confetti, shredded, trashogram
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santa claus [flashback]
December 11, 2009… I was listening to talk radio on my way to work yesterday. It was so incredibly cold I didn’t want to let go of my warm coffee mug to steer the car, much less turn on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 3, 3 gifts, american culture, american way, being, believing, cell phone, christmas, claus, cookies, cris cringle, fat guy, flashback, gift, gifts, historical, holiday, iPod, kinect, mexico, milk, overkill, poor, poverty, presents, prostitutes, red suit, reindeer, saint nick, santa, seriously?, sleigh, st. nick, starving kids, stuff, three, wise men, xbox 360, xmas
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