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Post by puzzleqt on Mar 1, 2017 12:21:28 GMT -5
4 catagories
Paper - 4 trash/recycle/file/calendar/note
Dishes - wash 4 from counter
my bedroom - 40 items dealt with
books - 1
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Post by H2H on Mar 1, 2017 13:01:35 GMT -5
mynicehome I love the idea of 40 books being rehomed!! I can do this....
I am terrible at ever joining or keeping to challenges ( these are famous on a diet site MFP..people get jazzed to eat only 1 thing for a week or walk 30 miles, they all heave to, but it never interests me )
BUT I do have so many books left from the online bookstore..so I just decided to donate at least 40 new or unusual books to my library resale hope!! ...will get more cardboard boxes and start clearing the stacks. Maybe I can get rid of 100 over the period.
Our library OVERBUILT the most gorgeous main building in late 90s..then and NO money to be open or pay staff for more than 3 days a week, it took 8-10 years before they were open 5 days week..and they began an inbuilding store and an online presence. We are too small a community to support that grand building. But we do have many tiny satellite libraries at least.
* small progress on consumption: I have a little basket of cool 1980s SciFi magazines,(these are 5x7 size) with very colorful covers -orange planets whirling in space, green slimy monsters grasping tiny humans in silver spacesuits...etc! I am NOT getting more library books to read this week, but reading each one of these until all are enjoyed, then donating..the BEST thing about Scifi is the stories are amazing no matter what decade they were written,every author comes up with completely different ideas, and often the oldest ones inspired many great stories by other writers for decades after.
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Post by ohblondie on Mar 1, 2017 14:17:03 GMT -5
EDDS.....Every Day Do Something......
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Post by notanotherdecade on Mar 1, 2017 16:19:31 GMT -5
Have fun with the sifi comics 🤖 , decluttering can be fun ...
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Post by H2H on Mar 1, 2017 17:27:35 GMT -5
..not comics.. stories! just wild cover art as was common
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Post by hannah on Mar 1, 2017 19:17:59 GMT -5
I am going to put 40 old magazines in the recycle bin.
These are SO old that I would be embarrassed to take them to the library and donate them!
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Post by magda on Mar 1, 2017 19:19:21 GMT -5
Dropped off my first Lenten donation today ! I decided I better drop off sooner than later rather than amassing 40 items to drop off at Easter
It was a nice sweater. Like new. Never really fit me right so I never wore it. Hope it blesses someone else.
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Post by haywirehousekeeper on Mar 2, 2017 0:05:18 GMT -5
I've pulled out a box of toys from the spare room. They were second hand toys given to me by a friend a couple of years ago. She was clearing out her kids toys and passed them on to me. I knew we didn't need them but I didn't say no. I just put them in the toy/junk room and left them there. I am only counting the box as 1 item though.
I've also found 8 items of clothing too small for either of my boys and another random soft toy. So that makes it 10 for today. I'm about to put them in the car and get them out of here.
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Post by ohblondie on Mar 2, 2017 7:38:11 GMT -5
Overslept and did not have time to do anything major before work. I made my lunch and tossed a container from the fridge. Over lunch I will try to toss 40 papers or something.
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Post by megsb on Mar 2, 2017 9:03:24 GMT -5
Hi friends,
Need to resign from this challenge and posting in this thread.
But my prayer-time is definitely increasing.
What better time than Lent, for this to happen?
Blessings to all.
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Post by ohblondie on Mar 2, 2017 13:32:47 GMT -5
megsb..thinking of you!!!!
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Post by ohblondie on Mar 2, 2017 13:33:41 GMT -5
just spent a few minutes getting my bills lined up and ready to pay. Lost the password to one account. And I have paperless billing. Ick....
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Post by magda on Mar 2, 2017 13:38:36 GMT -5
Lent day 2!
I donated a pair of dress pants.
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Post by H2H on Mar 2, 2017 14:13:32 GMT -5
hannah never worry over magazines donation! ...there is a joke that ALL the boxes and boxes of stored National Geographic magazine will slowly put a DENT in the crust of the earth...as no one throws them out. hahaha
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Post by PerrinJade on Mar 2, 2017 14:32:50 GMT -5
For Lent, I'll do at least 30 minutes of work on the apartment each day. Most days it'll probably be more like an hour. But when I get the apartment back to rights, sometimes my dailies will only take 20 minutes. Maybe I'll get back into the swing of things this way.
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