Bookkeeping

Maybe I have too much time on my hands... OK, I do have too much time on my hands. But that's a good reason to keep things organized. For too long I had kept all my ticket stubs in an old makeup bag kept inside a shoebox. But I'm one of those people who actually likes to look at all my old trinkets, so keeping them hidden away wasn't really working for me.

Who knew that you could buy albums to keep your ticket stubs in? Like this Ticket Stub Diary. Well, obviously not me. I bought this book for business cards and turned it into my own ticket stub keeper. At the time, I thought it was a pretty ingenious. For some reason it only occurred to me afterward to see if such a thing actually exists.

I filed away all my little ticket stubs by year: concert, plays, comedians, and authors in one, and movies in another. As you can see, I went to see the band Incubus a lot in 2002. I was a little obsessed.

Turns out, I really love books... and magazines. But a couple of years ago, I realized I didn't like combing through dozens and dozens of magazines to find that one article, picture, or recipe I liked. So I turned my magazines into a book. Well, two books now. I call them my "magazine books." I know, imaginative, huh? A lot of the content is from my favorite magazine, Bust, and the now defunct Jane (so sad.) It seems like all the magazines I like eventually shut down: Jane, Blueprint, Domino.

I love having all of my favorite magazine clippings in one place. And because it's all stuff I love, I never get tired of looking at it, and I reference it frequently. Here are a few pages.