It isn't the best photo, but I needed to memorialize the contents of a file drawer of my mother's. There's a file in there labeled "Nuts and Cranks" and another labeled "Madness". I don't even know what's in them, but it doesn't much matter, does it? Sometimes you can judge the book by its cover.
I love it! Actually, I'm very curious to know what's in them. I would have to open them immediately upon discovery.
ReplyDeleteI think I love your mother.
ReplyDeleteShade and Sweetwater,
K
Oh I love this. She makes file folders like I do. Sticking labels on over previous labels, reusing folders, handwriting things on. It turns into a real mess after awhile, but ... what character!
ReplyDeleteYour mother was a treasure. No doubt about it. Just looking through that photoessay you gave me the link to last summer was a journey in itself.
T.
i'm working on cleaning our office/computer room today and have been filing things. I think I may need to create some more file folders, because I don't think any of mine have nearly as interesting titles
ReplyDeleteI would pay you for the privilege of sorting out her belongings, but I'd never get anything much accomplished.
ReplyDeleteYour mother could have been one of my best friends. I love these.
ReplyDeletewonderful, indeed! how can you have not looked through them yet?
ReplyDeletei'm also curious about "stuff," but that was obviously less interesting stuff.
ReplyDeletemadness, local history, nuts & cranks...wow. your mom=cool.
ReplyDeleteAre you KIDDING? You didn't look?!
ReplyDeleteBack in the magazine (and snail mail) days, we had both a "crazy" file and a "prisons" file for the wackadoo letters we received.
Oh man! I would totally need to look. AND, I am thinking of starting a "nut and crank" file of my own...for my children. Love it :)
ReplyDeleteWell *I* am curious about Nuts and Cranks. I mean, really. What would she have filed in there? Clippings of News of the Weird?
ReplyDeleteIs that my file cabinet? That lady is da bomb.
ReplyDeleteToo amazing and fabulous. I love the file called 'stuff.'
ReplyDeleteI need to imitate this immediately.
the labels itself are too tempting...
ReplyDeleteYou really should look. Those are too tempting to leave unread!
ReplyDeleteI really, really am curious here.
ReplyDeletewould have enjoyed knowing your mother!
ReplyDeletelike I needed another reason to go rifling through your mother's house?
ReplyDeleteThe 'A' folder in my filing cabinet is 'Aborted attempts at something literary'. Kindred spirits.
ReplyDeleteyes, i am in love.
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