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    rodeosweetheart
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    Purge February 2016----5 items a day.....

    Hope it is alright to continue with a new February thread.
    Last night I threw out approximately 20 pieces of Corelle wear. I had actually purchased them because of a thread on the Simple Living board-- someone was saying they were white and plain and went with everything, and very light so it did not aggravate her carpal tunnel.

    All true. I threw mine out last night after one exploded.

    So about 20 pieces gone, a good start to February.

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    Way to create a silver lining! I hate the idea of throwing mine out but I must admit I've been dwelling on it. I have broken a couple with spectacular results - those scimitar shapes all over the place - although I've never had one spontaneously explode. What are you buying instead?

    My purge for the day was 4 magazines at least 4 months old. I'm also donating a basket and a "fruit saver" that actually tends to bruise the fruit rather than protecting it, identified as purge items in January.

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    Cool about the fruit saver. It's good to not fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy!
    I actually have enough china--all vintage stuff, Dansk, some Jadeite, some fiesta, and all I really need to replace are the large bowls, but I was thinking of getting a vintage Dansk wooden salad bowl, and just using my Jadeite mixing bowls for serving.
    It's just hard for me to use the "good stuff"--but I am inspired by my mom, who at 85 decided the time had come to start using her wedding china every day--you know, the stuff you save "for later"?

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    Thanks for keeping it going.

    Tonight I'll add 2 house phones, a DSL modem, an answering machine. Yeah!! Less wires. I hate wires.
    Float On: My "Happy Place" is on my little kayak in the coves of Table Rock Lake.

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    I'm in for this month. I've been doing the "busy" thing and my practice of parting with something every day has slowed to a trickle. I need this daily practice. It keeps me balanced.

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    I am in for the month, not sure if I am up to the 5 items a day until it gets warmer and I
    can get into the garage but will keep trying to find more!
    But, nothing today.

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    Parted with 600 things: two separate stacks of cards calling for volunteers for the homeless census. Nice cards. Sturdy. Like index cards. I use index cards. But I *HAVE* index cards. Pretty shades of blue and green. They'd work up nicely for homemade paper. Ha! I've never made homemade paper. I'm still knitting a friend's hat I promised two years ago. Do I need to keep at least one for next year? Hmm. Of course, I have it on my computer and in emails. Welp... can't justify keeping them can I?

    *put in recycling bin*

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    Meezer Mom, 600 things! WOW!!

    Today I'm getting rid of an old printer I've been saving "just in case". Just in case what, I need incentive to rip my hair out? Lol. Goodbye goodbye goodbye.

    Also, 14 cassette tapes.
    Last edited by kib; 2-2-16 at 6:44pm.

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    I'm almost ready to donate another car full: lamps, bedding, household items, computer parts...And I've consigned a couple of broken items to the garbage. Progress is being made.

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    2 Christmas catalogs
    1 Consumer Reports best buy book
    1 expired jar of cocoa butter (and checked all expiration dates in medicine cabinet)
    1 Personal Touch razor because, 12 years later, I'm finally convinced they will not come back and I refuse to pay $$$ for rare replacement blades on eBay

    So there's my daily 5. Earlier I was looking for a post-it on my desk. I found it but became acutely aware that the drawer hasn't been done in a while. I still have checks from an old account. Oh. My. Off to shred. Add a couple hundred to my daily total.

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