{"id":7985,"date":"2010-11-30T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-23-two-space-heaters-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7985","title":{"rendered":"Day 23 &#8211; Two Space Heaters (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I threw away two space heaters.\u00a0 Our basement is always cold in the winter time.\u00a0 Melissa likes it warm, so we had three little space heaters which we scattered\u00a0around the downstairs rooms\u00a0and then\u00a0stored during the warmer months alongside the Christmas decorations.\u00a0 At the end of last winter, only one of the heaters was still working.\u00a0 None of them oscillate anymore.\u00a0 One just kept shutting itself off.\u00a0 The other one would overheat and smell like burning dust.\u00a0 The Princess (age 3) got a small burn on her leg from that particular heater last winter.\u00a0  So why store the two broken heaters?\u00a0 Because &#8220;some day&#8221; I was going to get around to unscrewing the backs of them, blowing all the dust out of their innards and then hoping they wouldn&#8217;t burn the house down\u00a0when I plugged them back in.\u00a0 I&#8217;m probably better off with them in the garbage can.\u00a0  Maybe my Mom will give Melissa one of her homemade &#8220;snuggies&#8221; for Christmas&#8230; Update:\u00a0 It took two days, but someone hauled away that ugly, filthy plastic water table.\u00a0 Which gets me thinking:\u00a0 I might have to experiment to see where people draw the line on picking up &#8220;free&#8221; stuff from the curb!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I threw away two space heaters.\u00a0 Our basement is always cold in the winter time.\u00a0 Melissa likes it warm, so we had three little space heaters which we scattered\u00a0around the downstairs rooms\u00a0and then\u00a0stored during the warmer months alongside the Christmas decorations.\u00a0 At the end of last winter, only one of the heaters was still working.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7986,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}