I rather like Charmaine's idea here.
The same concept could easily be adapted for other personal issues.
How about mixing a batch of papercrete using:
Old tax documents that don't need to be kept any longer.
"Personal" correspondance from an "ex".
Divorce Papers
etc
Where you use this papercrete is as important as your choices about
what to put in it.
An outhouse?
The floor under your toilet?
A custom compost bin?
A fire hydrant sculpture for your dog to enjoy saluting with a raised
leg?
C'mon. You know you have similar ideas and want to symbolically rid
yourself of something in your history.
Don't you feel better already just thinking about it?
muhahaha
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "C. Taylor-Dirtcheapbuilder"
<tms@...> wrote:
>
> About using 'unwanted" books in papercrete [which gives most of us
serious
> pause] eswpecially me, as a bookseller.
>
> I'd rather know I had old math books in my living rooms walls,
and maybe
> a few bodice rippers in the kitchen walls , than to see the books
mold to
> death with rat poo all around them in the city dump.
>
> BUT there is a flip side too... I came up with the idea of using
people's
> writings, children's artwork, school report cards, personal letters,
> christmas cards from gramma.. just grind them up and make
papercrete wall
> infill, or plaster, then use in the walls.
>
> I came to this when a friend died, he retired from a lifetime of
work at 61
> to be a writer in his 'golden years"..and he had stacks of his
material
> piled up...but got ill ( cancer), and died. another mutual
friend was
> the executor of the estate, and the writer wanted all his
> writings...ALL....to be shredded so no one could read them. I took
the
> shredded paper ( two huge 33 gal. garbage sacks full) and made
them into
> paper+lime plaster. and used it on the walls in my home.
>
> It is a nice thought to know he lives in my memory, with his words
in the
> walls. even though I can't read the words, they still exist..if
your believe
> we are all vibrating molecules.
>
> I also think papercreters need a "truth window" like straw bale
homes have.
> A wee window that you open up and inside is a box stuffed with
shredded
> papers... hahahah ... well you get the idea. ( inside the straw
window is
> the actual straw bale, unplastered)
>
> Maybe the wee papercrete truth 'door' is actually a pizza box
cover, or a
> phone book cover.. or even use a hard back book cover itself. Get
a huge
> oversize book, like acolorful geographic history of the world, or
a chic
> art book, use the book in the home, and save the cover, add a
latch and
> make it the "truth" window. Or hey, even laminate the cover of
Solberg's
> papercrete book, and make it the little door?
>
> Some straw bale homes have some attractive ideas for the door.
One was a
> glass porthold cover, with copper fittins, and etched on the glass,
in
> Chinese symbol,it was the word "truth"... very clever.
>
> Maybe take a picture of all the discarded books before shredding
them, and
> then a photo of the wall they were used in?
>
> just a thought
>
> Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
> http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
http://www.papercrete.com
> PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
>
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