"it is not season to talk of reason / never call it loyal when the sword says treason"

[larryhammer]

Guideline used for culling our refrigerator magnets during cleaning for Passover:

If it isn't useful, informative, or funny, out it goes.

It occurs to me this guideline could be used for many other things. Especially if you change the definition of "useful" from "strong enough to hold stuff to the fridge" to something appropriate to the context.

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I never knew Passover was the season for culling fridge magnets!

Hmm, how about magnets with images from the unicorn tapestries--can they stay?

How about those word magnets that you use for fridge poetry?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I guess the former get a pass based on their "still capable of holding stuff to the fridge" qualities.

As for the latter... provided the compositions are funny?

[larryhammer]

For the first, exactly. For the latter, the ability of magnets to make poetry is useful.

It actually isn't specifically fridge-magnet-culling time. I almost included (but dropped because it digressed from the main point) a comment about how I actually don't mind Passover cleaning because it forces one to look at all the Stuff as one cleans it, and evaluate it.

---L.

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

My parents are "accumulators" ... a more rational form of packrat. Thus, I am *AntiPackrat*. (No cape necessary.) My 2 rules of thumb is 1) Is it useful? 2) Does it make me smile?

(There's a sub-test for the occasionally useful, which is "Is it easy and affordable to acquire on those three times a decade when I need it?")

We have one fridge magnet (a Totoro soot sprite) for emergency messages.

Anti-Packrat says: What an lovely religious observance, to have an official clean/cull event!

[larryhammer]

One that is followed by a home service where it is required that you drink four glasses of wine -- the first two on an empty stomach.

---L.

[behindpyramids.livejournal.com]

ah!! that's actually my rule for hanging out with people/when to cut a conversation short.

[larryhammer]

Heh.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Maybe "or funny or beautiful"?

Not that beauty tends to apply often to fridge magnets.

[larryhammer]

As in "useful, informative, funny, or beautiful"?

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking so.

[larryhammer]

You have a point ...

Yanno, icons can also be triaged with that list.

---L.