discardable beauty

The chocolate bar wrappers of shiny gold and silver. If I didn't so take them for granted, I'd keep each and every one.

Rather than crumpling them up and throwing them away once the chocolate is gone.

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I've kept quite a few actually, especially the small ones of various colors from the Sjaak's vegan chocolates (they closed up shop a year ago but still haven't taken down their no-longer-functional website; odd. It no longer even shows the popup message about having closed up shop. Very odd). Compressed into various shapes, still some on this table, and in the container on that table, and in the box I brought back from work when the office was shut down.

til the turtle escapes and the cows come home

Wiktionary: till

Etymology: From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a shortening of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto.

Merriam Webster: Until, till, 'til, or 'till?

...till is not a shortening of until. It actually predates the longer word.

Till has been in use in English since the 9th century; the earliest sense of the word was the same as the preposition to. It has been used as a conjunction meaning "until" since the 12th century. Until has been in use as both a preposition and a conjunction for almost as long.

I prefer to write "til" with a single L and no apostrophe because it is easier, and because "till" looks like something a farmer does, or something dealing with money. There's no other word "til" so why shouldn't it be acceptable that way?