TRASHPO: DO NOT THROW IN THE TRASH-HELP!?!

[Hilary Konrad]

hello all:

a while back I embarassingly but necessarily put it out there that I am totally a newbie and unaware of what all the cool kids are/have been for some time now up to, creating with, etc-and that is TRASHPO. But so now that I'm finally starting to dream about it, collecting constantly, clipping, gluing, etc etc etc-MY MOTHER KEEPS THROWING MY ART, CLIPPINGS AND PRECIOUS BITS AND PARTS IN THE TRASH! Anyone else have this problem? She's the type of mother who fills your cup before your last gulp and is ready with the scoop before the cat even arrives at the litter box-AKA: I feel like I'm going insane. I'll spend hours on something and then see it in the garbage covered in soup-I live sadly in a town that cut the funding for regular paper recycling a couple of years ago so in Kennebunkport, once your recycling is gone it's like landfill gone. ANY IDEAS?

[William M]

maybe you can put your clippings in envelopes or binders and stashed away so she won't be tempted to toss them? maybe not keep the works in progress out where she can see them? i mean put them away in a shelf behind books or under your bed or something like that after you've finished working on them for the day?

[Amy Kiessling]

oh goodness...I think you might need to keep your art bits under your mattress! : )