Decluttering: Repurpose Your Junk as Art

[akirlu]

Hey, this is a kinda cool thing. If you have a shoebox-size load of stuff that you can't bring yourself to toss out, but don't really have a use for, you can send it off to St. Paul artists' collective de-JUNKed. They will take your junk, assemble a 3-D artwork out of it, and e-mail you a picture of the finished product. If you like it, you send them $50 and they send you the art. If you don't like it, they offer it up for general sale. Either way, the stuff is no longer cluttering up your junk drawer.

Link thanks to the ever-fabu apartmenttherapy.com.

Comments

[chiefwirehead.livejournal.com]

This is a pretty cool idea (especially, having 2 brothers, as I do, with OCD clutter issues worse than my own). My personal solution was to buy lots of stuff and display it as art in my living room, so I didn't have to pay the postage, I guess.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I confess to being inclined to skip the "Send it to DeJunked" step and just making my own 3D art projects, but I see there as being two very significant advantages to sending it away: (1) It gets it out of my house, at least temporarily and (2) It short circuits the "I must save that; it's a PROJECT!" impulse. Often, for me, the thing that's hard to let go of isn't the object itself, it's my vision of what it could become, given the right application of time and labor.