{"id":5686,"date":"2018-08-08T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2019-05-30T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:44:33","slug":"365175-purging-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365175-purging-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#175: Purging For a Cause #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you\u2019re in a hurry. Sometimes you\u2019re behind. Sometimes you just don\u2019t want to take the time to figure out where to take your extra stuff. That was me last week. I was being good. I was going to a prayer service. BUT they asked folks to bring some school supplies as a goodwill offering for low income families. A nice idea, but I didn\u2019t want to take the time to go out and buy anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Days-365175-markers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5687 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Days-365175-markers.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>But wait! Why don\u2019t I just check our art supply drawers and office supply stockpile? Having raised four children and still having grandchildren who visit, we never purged our crayons, markers, and glue. Having gone to too many conferences (and organized some of them) we have way more folders than one family needs.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long to find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 boxes of markers. (We still have 2 full boxes and about 20 loose ones.)<\/li>\n<li>32 unused pencils (We still have plenty. It\u2019s the erasers that go bad.)<\/li>\n<li>2 bottles of school glue<\/li>\n<li>1 child\u2019s safety scissors<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Days-365175-school-supplies.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Days-365175-school-supplies-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 mega eraser for \u201cBig Mistakes\u201d<\/li>\n<li>150 sheets of packaged ruled paper<\/li>\n<li>66 clean colored folders (that have been used but don\u2019t look like it). This was only 1\/3 of our stash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think these will get us in the door to the prayer service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the point?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere\u2019s probably plenty of other extra paraphernalia lurking around our home that I just haven\u2019t gotten around to clearing out the \u201cmore than necessary for the grandkids\u201d stuff. So, prayer and the Sisters of Charity did me a favor by prompting my 15 minute search and giving me a good cause to give it to. I didn\u2019t even have to make a trip to Goodwill or one of my other go to donation places.<\/p>\n<p>What if you took 15 minutes today to scan your home for extra school supplies and take them to a school in need? What about extra tools, dishes, towels\u2026Pick a category. You don\u2019t have to do a whole house purge, just perhaps a weekly or monthly review of stuff you\u2019ve outgrown, or just have extra.<\/p>\n<p>See <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365183-purging-for-a-cause-2\/\">Purging for a Cause #2<\/a><\/span> for another example of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you\u2019re in a hurry. Sometimes you\u2019re behind. Sometimes you just don\u2019t want to take the time to figure out where to take your extra stuff. That was me last week. I was being good. I was going to a prayer service. 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