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<\/a>Dining Room:<\/strong> We have a beautiful built in china cabinet which makes it easy to store misc. dining and decorative items. It also makes it too easy to collect misc. things like candles, wrapping paper, and mementos.\nGive Aways<\/u>: My biggest purges were 10 empty 3 ring binders<\/strong> and a 48 piece flatware<\/strong> set, (We already had 2 sets of inherited silverware that we haven\u2019t had a party formal enough to use in a decade.) Add to this a few outdated books and mementos.
\nDiscard<\/u>: 34 of 68 catalogs<\/strong> some dating back to 1999. (I invoked my \u201cdiscard half\u201d rule. The reasons I kept any<\/em> are too complex to go into now.)
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<\/a><\/u><\/p>\nReorganize\/Relocate<\/u> – music for prayer services. (This was prompted by the disintegration of the expandable file I kept copies in. I found a new file folder but the process of sorting took 2 hours. I also relocated 4 wrapped candles to the emergency gift drawer.<\/p>\n
Bathroom Closet:<\/strong> This was already pretty trim, but I did find some old hair dye and frosting supplies that I will never use again plus an unlabeled bottle that seemed to contain shampoo. Pitched<\/u> all of these things. Semi-Conclusion:<\/strong> So I have spent time reviewing what to keep and what to get rid of on the main floor and upstairs of our house. I humbly conclude that this work is by no means finished, but I\u2019ve been learning a lot about my attitudes toward possessions\u00a0 and letting go of stuff in the process. I still have the basement and garage to go and those are gigantic spaces with many decisions looming, but not for today.<\/p>\n I will write a separate post soon about the lessons I\u2019ve learned from this Lenten project. Then I will continue into the underworld (our basement) and the outside world (our garage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 6 weeks of Lent are over but I\u2019m not done. Despite my carefully crafted schedule and efforts to catch up at the end \u2013 life interfered. Here\u2019s the skinny on the: Dining Room: We have a beautiful built in china cabinet which makes it easy to store misc. dining and decorative items. It also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,51],"tags":[22,33],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-drawer-a-day","category-room-by-room","tag-household","tag-organizing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nCatch-all Closet:<\/strong> This closet contained some kid toys and garden supplies.
\nUseless<\/u>: Hardened clay<\/strong>. It makes a pretty photo but the clay was hard as a rock.
\nGive Away<\/u>: However, the molds<\/strong> that our kids used for the clay are still good. Now I have to find some good kids to bequeath the molds to.
\n<\/a>Discard Safely<\/u>: I was chastised to find too many insecticides<\/strong> that I haven\u2019t used in years and that I now try to avoid using. Finding a place that takes hazardous household waste took most of my time. Most communities have a once or twice a year round up time for citizens to dispose of hazardous waste but that\u2019s 7 months away. After much internet searching I found that Hamilton County (Cincinnati)<\/a><\/span> takes hazardous waste once a week. Now I have to impose on a friend in Cincinnati to take these items for me.<\/p>\n