Your first blogging assignment will be to something that you have multiples of, i.e. what do you or your family “collect”, not a hobby. What thing do you accumulate? Discuss why you might be saving that item. What does it say about you?
Here's is my sample:
Rubber Bands
Useful little items. They come stretched tightly around my newspaper so that the Kmart ad and the sports sections don’t end up flying around in my driveway. Since they seem so useful and I might need them sometime, I drop them in the drawer with the pencils, pens, paperclips, post it pads and other miscellaneous items. Finally, my husband got tired of them getting jumbled up with the other non-essentials. He meticulously wrapped each rubber band around a piece of cardboard. So now we have an oblong object made up of rubber bands. Do I really need 500 rubber bands wrapped together? But, it seems hard to throw out something that can really be useful.
I don’t think of myself as a pack rat. However, when it comes to something like rubber bands (and plastic grocery bags!), I find that I save them. I justify it by thinking that I’m recycling them, making them useful a second time. And I do re-use them. But, again, how many do I need to keep on hand?
But, I would hate to run out of rubber bands!
