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It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  I continue to work on my big de-cluttering project.  My goal is to do a little each day.  I did not make much progress this week but the week is not over and I  did manage to clean off some shelves in my office and I found this lovely  dusty CD holder filled with old software.   I tossed the software and sent the CD case to the thrift store along with an old laptop case a camera case and some other "stuff"  that I have not used in a decade . . or ten years or something like that. 

Does or did anyone actually use the free copy of MS Works that used to come with computers? 

What do you have at your house that should have been tossed long ago?

Related Posts:

What to keep and what to toss out

Goodbye Makes The Journey Harder . . A Blast From The Past
More De-Cluttering
The Week Of Broken Things
Out With The Old And In With The New

It is Friday and Fridays are or fun.  Life is a journey and along the way we accumulate a lot of stuff.   This year I am taking on a 365 day project  to de-clutter my home and I am making progress but sometimes I have trouble deciding what to keep and what to throw out. 

Andrew 

I found this photo in a drawer.  It is of our son Andrew standing in front of the house the year we moved in.  The picture is a treasure and I am thrilled that I found it.  I never looked for it because I did not know I had it.  The two houses behind his head were torn down in 1996 and I can see the stack from the old Xcel energy plant that was removed in 2008.

shirt 

I want to toss or donate this shirt but a friend of mine is telling me that there are people who will pay for these vintage  shirts.  This is a knit turtle neck woman's size small.  I will mail this shirt to anyone in the continental US who would like to buy it from me.  I can accept credit card payments over the interent and will pay the shipping.  One way or another this shirt will be gone by next Friday.  

hawaii 365

I found this shirt in the back of a closet.  I have not worn it in a decade or so.  I am going to keep it and wear it but not until spring or summer. I had no trouble getting rid of the two bazilandy wire hangers I found in that same closet.  They went to the St. vincent De Paul thrift store on West 7th street along with some clothes and a wire spice rack that I tried to pawn off on my daughter.  She always was the smart one in the family.  

After I got rid of the excess stuff in the closet I had room for my luggage which was sitting outside the closet.  Luggage really should not be in a closet it should be on an airplane but that is the subject for another Friday.

What is hiding in the back of your closet? 

Related Posts:

Goodbye Makes The Journey Harder . .

A Blast From The Past
More De-Cluttering
The Week Of Broken Things
Out With The Old And In With The New

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.   The first post I wrote this year was about getting rid of "stuff".   I have been doing a great job getting rid of stuff and I am finding that I have a lot more than I thought I had.  For the most part I have been able to toss out, recycle or donate the items that I have been storing in various drawers, cupboards and closets for years.   I have been doing a little each day.  If I continue to take more out of the house each week than I bring into it I may eventually reach my goal of living in a clutter free environment.  

We start accumulating stuff at a young age.  Our parents and in-laws give us stuff  and then when our children move out they leave stuff and we buy stuff because that is who we are.  

It was hard to do but this week I actually tossed out my  collection of badges from various conferences that I have attended or spoken at during the past five years.  It was hard to say good bye to them all but it was time to let go.   

Conference Badges

Sniff . . . 

What are you hanging onto?  

It is Friday and I am not having fun.  As a Qwest customer internet outages were very rare.  I recall three or four of them in the last decade.  With CenturyLink there have been three or four this year. The currently outage is already 48 hours old.  It takes about 72 hours to get new internet access from any local provider. 

Having an office without internet access has been an interesting experience.  I get by because there are two coffee shops on the block and I can tether my phone to one of my computers and I have an iPad with internet access.  

As for CenturyLink they do not know when they will have the us up and running again. Last I heard they were waiting for a part.  It blows my mind that a huge company like that does not have the resources either have spare parts or get a new part.  

Each time I call for an update on the outage I am put on hold and I have to listen to advertisement for high speed internet access and all of the wonderful things a person can do with interenet access. 

If there is a way to get new high speed internet access today? 

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  It really wasn't a bad week but it wasn't a good one either.  One of the downsides to being self employed is keeping all of the electronic equipment and computers working.  Right now I am having trouble with two pieces of technology that I can not even look at without wanting to scream or cry.  It has been one of those weeks when I feel like I am the only thing in my office that works.

In between fixing things I managed to get some work done sell some real estate and do more of that de-cluttering that I mentioned on New Years day.  My paper shredder broke but I had 8 pounds of paper shredded by a professional, for a mere $.79 a pound and I managed to get rid of some holiday "stuff" by taking it to the local thrift shop.  They actually like stuff and re-sell it. The store kind of looks like a more organized and cleaner version of my basement.

I have a before and after picture of my top desk drawer and yes the crayons are mine and no I do not use them to write real estate contracts.  We use electronic contracts.

desk drawer

Everything in the drawer works, it is all low tech.  I was thrilled to discover that I have a life time supply of paper clips, staples and glue sticks.  I have no idea what I will use the pile of thumb tacks for but at least I know where to find them and I think they all work. 

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun and as a bonus it is the last Friday of 2011.  The hardest thing about having a blog is figuring out what to write.  I have a kind of lose editorial calendar that keeps me on track but there are days when I feel as though there just isn't anything more I can write. 

I decided to just re-use the words that I have already written.  The big words are words I have used often.   I used Wordle.net to arrange them all.

words click to embiggen

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  I just want to show everyone my puppy.  

My Puppy

Instead of a Klout score I have a puppy because I opted out of Klout and if you go to my profile this is what you will see: 

"It looks like we don't have data for this profile. Generally, profiles are added to our system as their activity level increases. We recommend checking back in a few days.
Thanks for your patience as we work to improve Klout!"

There isn't anything more important than a Klout score at least for those who play Klout because they have it confused with clout.  I am not at all confused which is why I like the puppy.