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A Back to the Future Moment

March 29, 2011 By Dana White | 12 Comments

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I have a question.

What do YOU do with all of your wigs?

You know, the ones you wouldn’t wear on a normal day?

Oh.  You don’t have any wigs?

Hmmm.  Okaaaay.

Well, it’s a real issue for me.  I can justify keeping the wigs that are modern and fun in the master bedroom.  But if I also kept my classic pin-curled ones in there, it might seem a little weird.  I mean, FIVE wigs?

Who does THAT?

But, I also can’t get rid of them.  The three that were on the top of the hutch in the office are stage-only wigs, but they are seriously cool.  Someone took a LOT of care to pin-curl them and keep them nice.  As a theatre gal, I can’t part with them.  But, when I removed the hutch, they no longer had a spot.  So, I decided to put them in a storage container and stack them with the other Props and Costumes boxes in the garage.

But only two fit.

And I couldn’t justify stacking another container.

So, I left myself a note.

A note to Me of the Future.  

The Me who I know will be so happy that she actually knows where to look, because she thought to label the container “Wigs.” But that same me will be bumfuzzled, knowing that she once had THREE perfectly pin-curled wigs, but the container will only have the two.

I think she’s really going to like this idea.   

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  1. Becky says

    March 29, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    You're so cute. This is great. I love it!!

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  2. Anonymous says

    March 29, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Hehehe. That's awesome. I put notes on my calendar. For example, for the second week of March I put "check that baseball pants still fit. they are in the box with the bathing suits". And I put that in the year before, when I packed them away. You gotta find what works!

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  3. BusyMommy says

    March 29, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    She totally will like that idea!!! 🙂

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  4. Tubbah says

    March 30, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Hi Nony,
    I'd like to present you with One Lovely Blog award.

    The requirements of accepting this award are as follows:

    1. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award.
    2. You have to tell seven facts about yourself that others might not know.
    3. Pass the awards along to as many as fifteen blogs you have found recently.
    4. Notify the bloggers of their awards.

    You can find the award on my blog.

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  5. Sue B says

    March 30, 2011 at 11:16 am

    Nony, you are one smart cookie!!

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  6. Kitty says

    April 3, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    Regarding the note on the wig container, it is amazing how often writing and leaving a note on something means you dont need the note. I remember doing that note thing for christmas decorations. We have 1 box of decorations plus 1 decoration I kept seperate because it didnt fit in the box and it has immense sentimental value so I wanted to keep it extra safe. For 3 years running I spent HOURS looking for that one decoration because of course the extra safe place is always TO extra safe. Then I put a note on the box, next year came around and the post it note had fallen off the box and had vanished but I did remember writing the note AND what the note said.

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  7. Amanda says

    March 22, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    I love it!!

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  8. Heather Siani says

    March 23, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    I wish I would’ve read this last year when I moved my regular clothes to make room for my maternity clothes. I spent weeks after the baby wearing maternity pants because I couldn’t remember where I packed the regular ones. I will keep this in mind!

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  9. Laura says

    March 23, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    I love this! David Allen, author of the book Getting Things Done, calls this “Be kind to your future self.” 🙂

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  10. Carrie says

    June 18, 2014 at 9:43 am

    Great idea! I put notes on things too. Primarily in with the Christmas decorations. I mark which lights go where, tree or outside for example. It just hard to remember for 11 months!

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  11. Kixxy says

    May 19, 2021 at 3:51 pm

    I totally understand about wigs. I had 10 but none were for theatre, perhaps I am just theatrical! I no longer wore them but didn’t want to just relegate them to a Halloween costume box so packed them up, styrofoam heads and all. I took them to a hospital specializing in cancer, hoping that someone could make use of them. Of course I could have taken them to the local theatre company too now that I think of it. It was good to purge but hard to let go until I thought that they might be helping someone.

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  12. Geena says

    March 11, 2023 at 1:42 am

    Several years ago, I gained weight over a long period of time. As I outgrew clothes, I would pack them away with a note that said, “Too small at XXX pounds.” In recent years, I have been losing weight. It has been so handy to have a record of the weight I needed to be under to fit into the clothes in each box.
    Wearing these older clothes helps me avoid spending money on new ones.

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