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Day 42 – Assorted Items (Throw)
I found a wooden Coca-Cola box in the garage full of mostly paper stuff. I sorted through it and threw away 90% of it, including:
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Day 42 – Assorted Items (Throw)
I found a wooden Coca-Cola box in the garage full of mostly paper stuff. I sorted through it and threw away 90% of it, including:
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Day 52 – New Light Fixture (Give)
I got over to Rose Ellen’s house this evening to take a light fixture. It was still in the box. I bought it originally from Lowe’s as part of a two-pack of which I only needed one. (I couldn’t find the style I wanted in a single pack.) It’s been sitting in the shed for over a year – not sure what I was planning to do with it since we’ve already replaced nearly every fixture in our house. But it was one of those things where you think, “I don’t need this but I can’t throw this away; it’s brand new. …
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Day 51 – “Radical” (Give) and Gift Boxes (Give)
We got a visit today from our long-time friends, Bob and Jill. They live near D.C. but have family in Indianapolis, so they were in the area for Christmas. We had to pack over a year of catching up into a few hours. They are about as far from ordinary as you can get – and their past year has been unusual even by their standards. At the start of summer, Bob’s church position was cut due to budget problems and Jill quit her job. They sold most of their possessions and travelled Europe for a month. Now they are…
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Day 50 – Devotional Books (Give)
“Laughter for a Woman’s Soul” and “Through the Night with God”. I wrapped these with a little bow and took them to Rose Ellen’s house while I ran a couple of other late evening errands (including finally getting some Christmas letters into the mail!). I also took one of the Christmas letters, so she was the first to actually get one in hand. I spent all day on those letters, so it was good to see them go. I didn’t know Rose Ellen before the mission trip to Haiti in October (and I had never been to her house before). …
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Day 50 – Devotional Books (Give)
“Laughter for a Woman’s Soul” and “Through the Night with God”. I wrapped these with a little bow and took them to Rose Ellen’s house while I ran a couple of other late evening errands (including finally getting some Christmas letters into the mail!). I also took one of the Christmas letters, so she was the first to actually get one in hand. I spent all day on those letters, so it was good to see them go. I didn’t know Rose Ellen before the mission trip to Haiti in October (and I had never been to her house before). …
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Day 49 – “Finding God in The Lord of the Rings” (Give)
OK, another book – I’ve got hundreds of them. I saw this title and immediately thought I should tag this one for one of my Honor students … I will call him Nerd Supreme here, since I don’t want to publish his real name here on the internet for privacy reasons. I don’t think he’d take offense to the title of Nerd Supreme either, so don’t worry – he’s not going to get mad at me (I hope). For one thing, he knows that I myself am a proud fellow nerd. Besides, he is one of those rarest of creatures in America’s high…
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Day 48 – 1,444 Fun Things to Do with Kids (Give)
I got this book last spring and flipped through quite a few pages now and then. There are tons of good, creative ideas in it which would apply to kids of varying ages. But the book doesn’t inspire me to do fun, creative things with my kids … it just makes me feel guilty. I mean, we don’t even seem to have the time and energy to do even mundane, ordinary things with our kids. We have a garage full of bicycles and how many times did we go for a bike ride together this past summer or fall? Exactly zero! …
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Day 47 – (Christmas Eve 2010) “Vintage” Garfield Painting (Give)
My little brother, Russ, made this Give easy for me. He still lives in the house we grew up in and, in fact, is currently fixing it up to put it on the market in anticipation of getting married this summer. I can only assume that somewhere in the midst of renovations and cleaning and tossing (much like we’ve been doing here), he found this portrait of Garfield which I painted as a kid. (Garfield looks fat and sloppy in the painting because that’s how Jim Davis first drew him, not because I was a bad artist…. just wanted to make…
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Day 46 – Assorted Books (Throw)
I may have said this before, but it is very difficult for me to throw away a book. I’ve been sorting through boxes of books from the shed. Most are going into one of three piles: 1) Books to keep. These are mostly books from seminary that may come in handy some day, but also some favorite books that are just hard to find – like my Adrian Plass books. (I can’t believe you’ve never heard of Adrian Plass!) 2) Books to give away. This is the type of book that was a good read, but once you’ve read it,…