Answer: Forever unknown. In all likelihood there isn't one, except maybe something unfunny like "they both usually have legs," or "Edgar Allen Poe is associated with both."
Riddle: How is a magpie like a pirate?
Answer: They both love shiny stuff.
As you can see, although my riddle isn't very funny, it does have exactly one definitive answer. Therefore, I am a superior writer in every way. Deal with it, Lewis Carroll.
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Be it jewelry, a bottle cap collection, an unruly mess of cables, or something else entirely, I'm confident you have some. I have lots of unruly collections, but the worst is the jewelry. I don't even wear jewelry most of the time; the only reason I remember to wear a nose ring and one earring is because they're the ones that are permanently affixed to my body even when I'm sleeping. Plus the one earring thing is reasonably pirate-y, come to think of it.
Anyway, I still like jewelry. I have a rather large number of small boxes/chests of tangled chains and mismatched earrings, because dangit, they're so pretty, and sometimes I do have a reason to wear a bracelet or necklace or even a ring, so I'd better keep 15 of each around for those occasions, right?
So periodically, I have to go through and untangle everything and return the conglomerate of stuff into organized boxes or hang them up on a board. You know, necklaces with necklaces, bracelets with bracelets, earrings with earrings. It's kind of a pain, but otherwise when I actually want to wear a necklace, it takes an hour to untangle the one I want from all the other ones that I don't want at that moment.
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| Dramatic Re-enactment |
The other thing I have is sewing supplies. But that's just too much to organize right now. What I chose to focus on instead was staying in the whole "untangling" vein. Which meant: thread! I had a whole box of miscellaneous thread. And also 3 boxes of straight pins. The thread and pins came from my mom, who cleaned out her closet by passing along all manner of useful clutter to me. I am definitely grateful for the stuff, since my budget is zero, but had to spend some time organizing, as I talked about the other day.
Finally, cables. Take a few minutes and untangle them. For cables that I don't move frequently, I like to zip-tie or twist-tie related ones at intervals. For example, the computer cable and the speaker cable; zip tie them together and keep them straight and separated from other cables!
Bonus: label them like this if you still have any plastic tabs laying around from Tuesday. That way you know what to unplug. Genius, I tell you.
It's amazing how a small amount of organizing makes me feel so productive!
Achievement: approach the tangled cables and/or chains carefully, for they may have developed a taste for human flesh during their long imprisonment.
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| Dramatic Re-enactment, Part the Second. |
And no one wants to admit to having been defeated by their booty. Someone else's maybe, but not your own. (Hey. I warned you about the bad jokes already. It's your own fault.)
Battle them Swag Monsters bravely!
