\n1. Seasonal and Occasional<\/strong>: These are things that will be used in the near future: (supplies for household repair, laundry, pantry non-perishables, camping, gardening, visiting grandchildren, and sports equipment.
\n2. Obsolete, Unnecessary, or Duplicates <\/strong>(See the duplicate photos in the plastic bag.)
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<\/a>3. Memorabilia and Maybe?: <\/strong>These are items that have happy memories attached to them. Click to enlarge photo.<\/p>\n#1 was easy \u2013 Keep them.
\n#2 was easy \u2013 Give them away, recycle, or discard.
\nBut, #3 took time because of the tapes and records.<\/p>\n
VHS tapes<\/u>: One might say that VHS tapes are obsolete, BUT, we still have a VHS player connected to our TV. After reviewing the titles of 90 tapes, I decided to keep 60 \u2013 many were home movies. Anyone know what to do with 29 semi-interesting tapes?<\/p>\n
Extra dishes<\/u>: We were saving dishes from deceased parents because a few of them were heirloom china and others we hoped would help our children set up their own homes. I\u2019m giving away a box of the ordinary glasses and bowls. (Our kids live far away or already have kitchen supplies. There is plenty more in the basement to prune. It doesn’t all have to be done this round. What’s lingering, unused in your home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basements and Garages are natural storage places so this is the likely place to find a lot of things to give away. It’s also likely to take a lot of time to sort through stuff accumulated – possibly over decades if you haven\u2019t moved recently. There are 3 basic kinds of storage items: 1. Seasonal […]<\/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":[28,27,31],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-drawer-a-day","category-room-by-room","tag-electronics","tag-memorabilia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","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=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6721,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Vinyl Records<\/u>: Vinyl records are also obsolete so I readily donated a hand-me down record console to a nearby used media store. This left me with a small phonograph which I thought worked but didn\u2019t. The problem was that my deceased mother was a singer and had made a record. I wanted to save that priceless piece of history. I also had 33 long playing 33 1\/3 albums from the 1960\u2019s, 70\u2019s, and 80\u2019s. How many Simon & Garfunkel or Peter, Paul, and Mary records does one really need to keep? I decided to trade about half of them to the media store in exchange for fixing my broken phonograph.<\/p>\n
\nBasketballs<\/u>: Our kids played a lot of basketball in our driveway, but they no longer live here. I found 3 balls in the basement. One went to a teen who was helping us with yard work. I\u2019ll save one.<\/a>
\nBirdcage<\/u>: We once had birds but that was decades ago. The bird cage goes.
\nIce-cream maker<\/u>: The ice-cream maker that someone gave us sounded like a nice family activity but we never got around to it. Maybe someone else will.
\nGreenhouse frame<\/u>: I had dreams of getting a head start on my garden by planting seedlings out doors in this small greenhouse, but my vision was bigger than my time. I just passed on the frame to a neighbor through Next Door<\/a> this morning. It freed up a lot of space in our garage.<\/p>\n