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Post by mickey on Oct 22, 2009 11:30:05 GMT -5
i'm so proud of myself i just wanted to write down here what i've tossed out. i can't believe it's only been two days and already i'm feelin the AMNESTY! here's the stuff i've thrown away that i wouldn't have before: warped and filthy cutting board empty milk jug plastic container once held deli food, now with mysterious greenish-brown gunk in it. packaging from my new optical mouse 3 old newspapers i didn't even read or clip anything out of. mummified celery i'm gonna keep adding to this list. i know about the fall fling thread, but this is for my own personal toss out list ad infinity. feel free to list stuff you've outright thrown away but would have held onto if you hadn't discovered SOS.
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Post by lostagain on Oct 22, 2009 11:37:55 GMT -5
I had this box that came with some stationary. It was just a little cardboard box with a pretty lid on it. I kept it for like, 2 years after using up the stationary. I threw it away the other day!
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Post by 60isolderthanithot on Oct 22, 2009 11:40:18 GMT -5
Mickey, GOOD FOR YOU! Keep at it! It does get easier.
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Post by StuffNoMore on Oct 22, 2009 11:45:10 GMT -5
Great job mickey! You just motivated me to toss out the empty box from my old Black Berry cell that I no longer use (the cell that is) Why on earth did I feel I had to keep the box with the instruction booklet! Thanks for the incentive mickey! Hugs SNM
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Post by mouseanne on Oct 22, 2009 12:04:46 GMT -5
The pressure relief valve on my hot water heater was leaking, apparently all summer... I RARELY go into my BASEMENT. I wanted to replace the furnace filter before I turned on the furnace. Just one of my lil OCD things... and there it was... the answer to the high water bill... the condensation on the back porch windows... Found it at 9:00 pm Tues or Wed last week. Called one neighbor... he was 100 miles away... called another neighbor, he came over, took off the valve, cleaned out the calcium. Then, he helped me haul upstairs all the water logged STUFF from that corner. - two HUGE (think: bigger than papertowel or toilet paper boxes) boxes of baskets from my daydream days of lining baskets & selling them for extra money. DID NOT even look through them to see if some HAD mold and some DID NOT. YAY ME!!! Tossed!
- huge portfolio, over 4 feet
- mirror with wooden frame
- one of my artist g-ma's early pictures, framed
- large piece of photo mounting cardboard (no acid-expensive) did NOT try to salvage undamaged portion *hear the cheers?*
- Bottom box of a stack of papers. Moved the other three boxes, the bottom one had disintegrated AROUND the contents. *heart sinking...that's a photo album...OH NO! my daughter's babybook* set that aside, peeled opened one of the file folders, contents, a bill from before 1985 TOSSED it ALL WOO HOO!!!
- seemed like more than this, but, oh! well! you get the picture
Good news, I was married 1985 - 1991... it was the wedding album, and the pictures were ok, in plastic pages. Baby book is safe...for now...wherever the heck it is. My Son in law replaced the valve the next day.
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Post by mouseanne on Oct 22, 2009 12:06:25 GMT -5
oopps!! Good job, mickey!!!
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Post by mickey on Oct 22, 2009 12:38:14 GMT -5
wow mouseanne, that took guts. good for you! one day i'll add to the list the baskets I threw away. (gotta find em 1st) woot!
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Post by mickey on Oct 22, 2009 13:02:15 GMT -5
a pen.
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Post by Chris on Oct 22, 2009 17:18:37 GMT -5
Amnesty is the greatest isn't it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm an avid recycler but when I get into a mess and forget to properly rinse the cat cans I do throw them out. Most of the time I remember to rinse and therefore can recycle. I actually threw out a set of old floormats for my old car -- I had thought I could freecycle them but it seemed like they were kind of not as impressive as I had remembered and so it would have involved cleaning them for the new owners so I threw them in the trash. Saved time and just let go of those nasty old suckers.
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Post by mickey on Oct 22, 2009 17:25:21 GMT -5
empty guinea pig treat canister several empty guinea pig food bags, at least one of which had cat pee on it a broken clothes pin. these things were stored under my kitchen sink for at least a year and a half. WHY!?!
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Post by greenfuzz on Oct 22, 2009 17:35:04 GMT -5
Mummified celery LOLZ!
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Post by zen on Oct 22, 2009 18:39:17 GMT -5
Ya know what the worst is? The packaging of any product from Apple. The box that my G4 laptop came in is as beautiful as the machine itself - I finally threw it out.
My Sd recently got a cute little teeny-tiny purple Ipod nano from her dad for her birthday - the box it came in is so cool, this ultra modern molded plastic box - she didn't want to keep it, so I refrained from holding on to it too - oh how far i have come in the last few years - it would have been murder 5 years ago to get rid of that.
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Post by Chris on Oct 23, 2009 9:46:03 GMT -5
A small stool with an iffy metal leg -- I was afraid we'd sit on it and get hurt if it gives out -- it was already bent, missing one screw and not something that looks easy to repair.
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Post by breakingfree on Oct 23, 2009 12:23:02 GMT -5
Great job mickey! #yelclap-1# You just motivated me to toss out the empty box from my old Black Berry cell that I no longer use (the cell that is) Why on earth did I feel I had to keep the box with the instruction booklet! Thanks for the incentive mickey! Hugs SNM I tend to keep boxes too! Just got rid of two cell-phone boxes with instruction booklets this past weekend. Why in the world do I keep them when I know I can always go online and get the manual or look something up if I need to? ?
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Post by ponygirl on Oct 23, 2009 15:30:02 GMT -5
I tend to keep boxes too! Me, too. Added bracket to fix broken formatting.
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