Obsolescence Project

Day 283 – Book > Food Facts & Fallacies

Book

Food Facts & Fallacies, by Carlton Freckericks, Ph.D. and Herbert Bailey.

Coffee is good for you. Coffee is bad for you. Coffee helps your liver. Coffee hurts your heart.

I gave up coffee for over a year, and enjoyed the freedom from spending nearly $4 on lattes. I’ve recently taken up the habit again, but only for a maximum of 4 days a week. So that  the grip of addiction doesn’t claim me, whether or not the bean is good for me.

Book

I like this yellow and blue. I wonder if there’s a marketing correlation of these colours with health, or is it just a by product of the era?

Book
Status: Read entries on Sports and Nutrition.

Kill-ratio: 16: 3/ ~5:1

Alt-title: Untitled Tome No. 283 For Warding Off Junk Food.

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Day 282 – Bullet

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Bullet.

Garage sale.

A funny kind of object to find at a garage sale, but Mr. OP did.

I didn’t plan to post these images on Remembrance day, having photographed the first batch a couple of weeks ago. But yesterday I re-shot some photographs, and then today it felt oddly apropos.

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Status: A strange object. Consider what does it mean to keep it?

Kill-ratio: 48: 3 / 16:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 282 For The Forgotten.

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Day 281 – Sandals

Sandals

Sandals. Circa 2008.

Worn a few times.

I’m no fashionista, so can’t truly say whether or not these have gone  out of style (or ever were in). But I know that they sat in the closet all summer and pretty much all last summer too, therefore far exceeding that decluttering rule about getting rid of things you haven’t worn in a few months.

Seasonal stuff is slightly different, but when I saw the dust (mainly removed) that had accumulated I knew they had to go.

Sayanora wedge heels.

Sandals

Status: Donated to Sally Ann last week.

Kill-ratio: 9:2 / 4:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No 281  For Dusting Off The Old And Dancing to A Different Drum.

A special shout out to my blogging / tweeting buddy Ben on his completion of YOLS! (One year of living sober). Congratulations Mate!

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Day 280 – Whiteboard

Writeboard

Whiteboard. I think the exact term would be a Dry-Erase Board.

What happens with these is that after you lose your enthusiasm for writing down inspiring ideas on a daily basis, and your to-do list stays up a little too long, is that they no longer erase. Especially with the ridiculously small eraser that comes with the board.

At first I tried to wipe this down with water, and then an environmentally friendly cleaning product, but nothing would remove the streaks.

Writeboard

Status: Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to the Sally Ann we go.

Kill-ratio: 36: 2

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 280 For The Best Laid Plans.

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Day 279 – Cube Clip

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Cube Memo Clip.

Larking Building

The Taylorist Open Plan                                                                                      > http://www.carusostjohn.com/media/artscouncil/history/taylorist/index.html

The interior of the Larkin Administration Building, designed in 1904 by Frank Llyod Wright, Buffalo, NY. Demolished in 1950.

Status: A close copy of this already belongs to the sea monster. Still, she can use a spare part.

Kill-ratio: 8:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 279 For Holding Memos in Stasis.
Memo To Self:

Added “Office” as a new category today. Repetitive task looming ahead> go back and properly categorize old posts. To be done with the Technology category as well.

Oh yes, so delighted Obama won. I love many photographs from the 1950s, not the status of women (nor many other things).

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