Can you be a bag lady at age 7? Peyton has a problem. She constantly fishes stuff out of my office trash and finds ways to play with it or recycle it into a toy. Yes, I agree, some "green thinking" is good...but that's not what this is. I open bills and throw away the envelopes. Days later I'm getting them back stuffed with "love notes" with my name scribbled across the front and the flap taped shut with about sixty pieces of tape. At first I was curious as to why OG&E was addressing my bills to "mommy" in purple crayon.....when I asked her to please not dig in the trash for envelopes, Peyton responded by simply asking me to just not throw them away so she wouldn't have too. Oh, and by-the-way, could I please use the letter opener so it was easier to tape her "letters" shut?
Another obsession she has is digging out every single receipt I throw away and storing it in her room. She calls them her "tickets" and she plays store with them. That's all well and good, except I really don't need her playing "store" with daddy and showing him all the receipts mommy had thrown away from all the stores! Especially when he asks "Where did you get all of these?" and she announces, very proudly, "Oh, I have LOTS!" Thanks Peyton.
Maybe this is why she never throws anything away. She sees treasure in trash. Empty toilet paper holders become decorative instruments. Old magazines become sources for collages and pictures. Old make-up gets used on baby dolls and, oh yes, herself. She and the cat even fight over plastic bottle tops! One day maybe I will appreciate her ability to recycle and make use of things that others see as disposable. In our "throw away" society that likes to "throw away" people it sees as valueless, like the elderly or disabled, maybe she will champion a cause to rescue them.
Or maybe, Peyton's just a little trashy.
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