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Day 5 – the Crib (Sell)
I put our crib set on craigslist tonight. Our “baby” turns FOUR in January! This is another one of those deals where something has been sitting around the house for months and I just haven’t acted on it. The Princess moved into a big bed probably a year ago. The crib was dismantled and stored in the shed along with the rocker. The dressing table sat in the corner of the Princess’ room for months. Then, a few weeks back, we hauled the whole set to a community garage sale, set the crib up one last time, and … took it all…
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Day 4 – TV (Give)
Kate and Storly came over tonight for dinner along with their two sweet little girls. Melissa made a pork roast with pineapple salsa, beer bread and corn casserole. Kate brought the ice cream and cherry pie filling as a topping. (Must be a Welsh thing.) In conversation tonight we figured out that we first met Kate and Storly exactly two years ago. It was through them that God first began to call us to Haiti. We got to know them when they started to attend our small group on Friday nights. More recently, Kate led the mission trip when Melissa…
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Day 3 – Simpsons Trivia Game (Give)
(Tuesday, November 9, 2010) I made it easy on myself today. I gave away a game I have never once played. It’s a Simpsons trivia game in a tin container that Melissa gave me one year as one of those goofy little “extra” gifts that you throw in with the “real” gift at Christmas time. I like the Simpsons. I just don’t like games. And so it had been relegated to the garage where it rested on a counter top for … literally … years. So this morning I was in the garage to get an extension cord because…
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Day 2 – The Year of Living Biblically (Give)
Day 2 (November 8, 2010): Today I gave away a book. “The Year of Living Biblically” by A.J. Jacobs. It’s a truly funny and fascinating book. Jacobs writes for Esquire magazine and he likes to experiment on his own life and then write about the results. (Perhaps my decision to throw, give and sell stuff each day and to document the process was subconsciously inspired by Jacobs!) Jacobs, who started his experiment thoroughly secular (“I’m officially Jewish but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant”), does his best to live a year of his life taking…
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Throw Away, Give Away or Sell
It’s been just over two weeks since I got back from a mission trip to Haiti and just over five hours since my family and I returned from a weekend retreat with OMS (One Mission Society) in Greenwood, Indiana. With mounds of school work to do (I STILL have not completely caught up on grading after missing a full week for my Haiti trip) and the bed calling, what am I doing? Setting up a blog. I am in the habit of reading various blogs on a regular basis, but I have never written one myself. This is all one big experiment.…
