A shoebox full of immies
This is one of my favourite lines from one of my favourite books, " Diary of a Mad Housewife". The movie is also excellent. Bettina's lover George says it to her in a moment of frustration: "Don't you ever use the shoebox full of immies you have for a brain?" Boy, I can relate. I'm back in Montreal helping my dear mother downsize. Don't you just want to ask someone directly WHY they have done this or that ? For example ...why do you have 10 chairs when you live alone? Why do you have a rubberband collection? And why, oh why is everything imaginable hanging from a string/clothespin/hook/ contraption? An immy by the way is a marble. Maybe she can get her inventions into Popular Mechanics.