Dog food.
A plan.
Seventeen long, white, infinitesimally-tapering candles. Unlit, never-lit - with the wick still white and waxy.
A pen. Not now this moment.
Drum sticks. About seven of them. Some painted black, some wood colored.
Cigarettes. I don't really smoke them. A pack a year, maybe two. And in any case: Marlboro Lights? Please.
Empty glass bottles and pickle jars. Many of them.
Two copies of Pearl Jam's Vs.
A frozen chicken carcass.
A bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
One copy of Pearl Jam's Vs.
Six different harmonicas, all in different keys.
A gold plastic "Mardis Gras" mask, with elastic cord.
A half-finished hand puppet.
A movie stub from last year.
These stacks of photos.
Approximately fifty neckties.
A ridiculously oversized denim jacket.
A tin of "fancy" sardines.
A large box of colored "bendy" straws. Not crazy straws! Bendy straws. Like, 250 of them.
A used-up plane ticket to the same damn place I always fly.
A small, embroidered-silk-covered box containing two tiny, chiming Chinese meditation balls.
Three pepper shakers?
That's a long list of things I don't need.
You know in a lot of ways, a list like this, you learn a lot more from that than from other kinds of lists, maybe.
How about you readers out there? Let's have a list of what you don't need.
A plan.
Seventeen long, white, infinitesimally-tapering candles. Unlit, never-lit - with the wick still white and waxy.
A pen. Not now this moment.
Drum sticks. About seven of them. Some painted black, some wood colored.
Cigarettes. I don't really smoke them. A pack a year, maybe two. And in any case: Marlboro Lights? Please.
Empty glass bottles and pickle jars. Many of them.
Two copies of Pearl Jam's Vs.
A frozen chicken carcass.
A bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
One copy of Pearl Jam's Vs.
Six different harmonicas, all in different keys.
A gold plastic "Mardis Gras" mask, with elastic cord.
A half-finished hand puppet.
A movie stub from last year.
These stacks of photos.
Approximately fifty neckties.
A ridiculously oversized denim jacket.
A tin of "fancy" sardines.
A large box of colored "bendy" straws. Not crazy straws! Bendy straws. Like, 250 of them.
A used-up plane ticket to the same damn place I always fly.
A small, embroidered-silk-covered box containing two tiny, chiming Chinese meditation balls.
Three pepper shakers?
That's a long list of things I don't need.
You know in a lot of ways, a list like this, you learn a lot more from that than from other kinds of lists, maybe.
How about you readers out there? Let's have a list of what you don't need.
Comments
It doesn’t.
2) One pale pink bridesmaid dress. Worn once. There might be a few Pimms, West Coast Cooler and grass stains on it despite being dry-cleaned. Would suit someone 5 ft tall who is comfortable wearing pastel colours.
3) Three notepads with “A little note from Melissa” printed at the top. I don’t write notes so have no need for them. Would suit someone called “Melissa”.
I'll figure out where to put it later.
@Mel - he's got two songs with that "puh-leeeeeeease" chorus! They were both on his greatest hits cd. When I heard the second one, I was like, Wha--?? Puh-leeeeeeease.
@limom - well heck, it's not a list of stuff I don't want! It's things I don't need. Actually, I don't have some of these things on the list, but it works out because I don't need them.
Gym membership
Gills
Top hat
Instant coffee
Mascara
Ego
Rumplemintz
@JMH - now that's a list! Concise, yet comprehensive in scope.
@Jo. - I don't! That thing was just sitting in there! I finally got rid of it.