Keeping The Memories

June 25, 2008

My brother was overjoyed when I called him earlier this week and asked, “Do you want these old 45s that belonged to Mom?” His voice was filled with wonder and awe, “You still have them? Yes, I want them.” We talked about some of the records that came from the store my mother had back [...]

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Garage Sale Time

June 20, 2008

We are going to have a garage sale in August. I know full well that we won’t make enough money to justify the time, but we will get to turn a little bit of our trash into cash. Anything that is really worth money we will try to sell on E-Bay first. However, as we [...]

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Give Someone Else A Chance To Love Those Heirlooms

June 18, 2008

Organizing gurus say that we only use 20% of the items we own. The other 80% is stuff that we keep “just in case” we might need it someday. I freely admit that I have a lot of that “just in case” stuff. The only problem, is that it is buried beneath the other debris [...]

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Freecycle

June 14, 2008

With all the junk we need to toss, our quickest solution would be to rent a dumpster and just fill it up and have it dragged away. In one Saturday, we could vastly reduce the amount of stuff we have. But, that’s not the best solution! What we consider trash might be someone else’s treasure. [...]

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