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neadodsI've been winding this down with only the basement yet to go through and no energy to deal with it, and yet I found plenty of things to toss this week, and I mostly do mean toss:
1) My grandfather's extension cords. They were given to me when I set up house, but I looked at them when M pulled out the tree and thought "I'd never plug those in; they went out of code 50 years ago." Into the trash with them.
2) Lots of old makeup. I know you're not supposed to keep it, but I was out of sheer stubbornness for the price paid for it. However, it looks like it's all going to be replaced with mineral makeup anyway.
3) Tangled snarls of yarn. I was keeping them to disentangle someday... why?
On the Freecycle side, there were:
4-5) Two of those recipe books where you put index cards in slots. I've been using a regular 3-ring binder so I can rip articles right out of Fine Cooking and put them in.
6) A china serving dish - a long rectangle with four compartments that I haven't found a single use for since I picked it up at a yard sale two years ago.
That's one short, but not bad for a week where I haven't even been trying.
1) My grandfather's extension cords. They were given to me when I set up house, but I looked at them when M pulled out the tree and thought "I'd never plug those in; they went out of code 50 years ago." Into the trash with them.
2) Lots of old makeup. I know you're not supposed to keep it, but I was out of sheer stubbornness for the price paid for it. However, it looks like it's all going to be replaced with mineral makeup anyway.
3) Tangled snarls of yarn. I was keeping them to disentangle someday... why?
On the Freecycle side, there were:
4-5) Two of those recipe books where you put index cards in slots. I've been using a regular 3-ring binder so I can rip articles right out of Fine Cooking and put them in.
6) A china serving dish - a long rectangle with four compartments that I haven't found a single use for since I picked it up at a yard sale two years ago.
That's one short, but not bad for a week where I haven't even been trying.
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Date: 2007-12-16 03:09 pm (UTC)Mostly they were gifts given by people who didn't have a clue what I liked... but some of them were things I picked up and thought "I could use this" and then never really did.
(fortunately, I had friends over who tended to go "OMG, you're getting rid of that?" every so often, and so I was able to regift rather than toss, which eased the guilt a little)
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Date: 2007-12-16 03:27 pm (UTC)The HUGEST challenge in the whole thing for me hasn't been picking what stays or goes. It's been forgiving myself for having it in the first place, or for having outgrown/grown disinterested in it. And that has been a hard, hard thing to do.