using it upAn inventory, not a haul
read 14 SEP 2026The letter
94 entries73 published21 in the queue292 spoken lines21 with no lines72 photographs9 objects18 the longest run5 columns8.5 a weekread 14 SEP 2026

using it up/All entries/Still works/041

my scissors were my mom's and they still cut clean through everything

22 JUL 2026Still works4 spoken lines, 55 wordsthe list, 9 of 14a decade

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Still works. Kept, mended, and quietly older than anything that replaced it would have been.

Every object here is a still from that entry's own footage.
The caption it went out with

nothing about them is new and nothing about them needs to be

The object
the list, entry 9 of 14
Filed under
Still works
Went out
22 JUL 2026
The lines
4 lines, 55 words
It counts
two
Also the list
9 didn't buy it, 2 still works, 2 noticed, 1 finished it
02

They're older than I am by about a decade. Nobody thought of them as an heirloom.

03

The handles are worn smooth from two people's hands. That's not damage, that's just use.

04

Nothing about them is new and nothing about them needs to be.

The rest of the shelf

14 entries are the list. This is 9. Every object here is a still from that entry's own footage.

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