{"id":3080,"date":"2010-11-08T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"throw-away-give-away-or-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"Throw Away, Give Away or Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Setting up a blog.\u00a0 I\u00a0am in the habit of reading various\u00a0blogs on a regular basis, but I have never written one myself.\u00a0 This is all one big experiment. So why a blog for the Gross family and why now?\u00a0 Because life has been turned upside down and I need to write to make sense of it.\u00a0 And it would help me to be disciplined in writing if I had an audience.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if I have a real audience or not … with an honest-to-goodness blog of my own, I can pretend I have an audience and that will be enough for me to write.\u00a0(Maybe!) The title of my first entry here is my goal over the next several months:\u00a0to find something each day around the house to throw away (good idea!), to give away (even better!) or to sell (ideal!).\u00a0 We need to lighten our load.\u00a0\u00a0The wife and I are\u00a0having serious talks about selling the house in the next few months, paying down our debts and heading to Haiti as teachers by August 2012 (although we are open to God’s timetable being longer or shorter, of course!).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Day 1 (Sunday, November 7, 2010):\u00a0 After we returned from Greenwood, I went out to the garage and tackled several 8 foot tall cardboard pillars that I had used in my classroom over a year ago when we studied Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”.\u00a0 They’ve slowly rotted\u00a0in the center of our garage ever since, serving as nesting grounds for crickets and makeshift sponges for rain water.\u00a0 I loaded them into the back of the van and drove around town looking for a place to recycle them.\u00a0 Every\u00a0recycle dumpster I found emphasized “No Cardboard!”\u00a0 Well, I tried to keep Al Gore happy….\u00a0 I had to bring them home.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed stomping them flat and forcing them into a garbage can.\u00a0 They are gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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