May 3, 2007--table

we built a new kitchen island, so this table (which we inherited from our home's previous owner) went to a church friend. you can sort of see the two trashcans she took too, hiding under the table.

May 2, 2007--trashcans

our trashcans don't fit in the new island. i don't have pictures of them, but i gave them to a church friend.

May 1, 2007--blender attachment

this was an attachment that i picked up at the dig-n-save. it doesn't fit my new blender.

April 30, 2007--blender jar

this was part of a blender/food processor combo that i got for christmas a few years back. the blender doesn't work any more--the blades don't turn. so i got a new blender. i'll keep the food processor part for now.

April 28 & 29, 2007--two shirts

i don't wear these.

April 27, 2007--Everyday Food magazines

Same story, second verse--here is a collection of about 31 issues of Everyday Food. I am totally attracted to the design and styling of these, plus the food is good. but they take up a lot of room and it takes a lot of time to sort through the issues when i'm looking for a specific recipe (so i go online instead) and i don't often take the time to browse them for dinner ideas. instead, i think i'll buy the new cookbook based on these magazines (including a full-page photo of each recipe, and nicely divided up by season) and get rid of the bulk of the magazines themselves.

April 26, 2007--Cooking Light magazines

I'm getting rid of my collection of old Cooking Light magazines. I think there were about 24 issues or so. i never look at them and i have a large collection of recipes i've never made yet, so... these can go and inspire someone else.

April 25, 2007--seeds in a can

this is my second attempt to grow one of these "seeds in a can" kits and i'm giving up. i'm throwing away not only this can of not-growing seeds in funky dirt-like substance, but also the idea of growing something in a can. does that count as two things? this one was party of my birthday present from my lovely husband.

April 24, 2007--wrist rest experiment

this was an experiment that didn't really work. it was supposed to be a padded wrist rest that you could wear on your wrist! but... it's too tight. and too hard to mass-produce.

April 23, 2007--my first danskos

i loved these shoes. you can probably tell. but i haven't worn them in over a year and the few times when i wished i had brown shoes, i couldn't bring myself to wear these because they're so tattered. it's time to let them go.

April 22, 2007--citronella candle

i'm so embarrassed that i even still have this. it's broken, the candle is mostly burnt and it's so old that the citronella is probably non-existent anyway!

April 21, 2007--wind chimes

one of my favorite college professors gave me this wind chime as a wedding gift. it's broken now. i may decide to re-use the chimes themselves to make myself a new windchime, but this one is kaput. if i re-use the chimes, is it cheating to list the item on this blog?

April 20, 2007--mail organizer thingy

my wonderful husband bought this for me one year and it does look like something i'd like a lot, but the slots are too small for most of the mail we get (catalogs and junk) and so it's never really gotten used. i think he's a little sad about it, but that's not a good reason to not get rid of it. in fact, sadness around an object may be a good reason TO get rid of it!

April 19, 2007--cheap-o pedometer

back when counting the number of steps you took every day was the hot way to lose weight, i bought this pedometer. i didn't have a lot of money to spend on it, so i got this cheap one. i quickly learned that it was... inaccurate--to say the least. it had a tendency to count bounces and bumps that weren't steps at all and to not count all of the actual steps i took either. i didn't use it very long. why have i kept it?

April 18, 2007--tiny cross-stitched box

i think this was a graduation gift from my aunt. back when i was going into music education. i'm not planning on going back to music education and i'm not really into cross-stitch and i was never quite sure what to keep in such a tiny wooden box. although i dearly love the aunt who made this for me, i no longer feel the need to keep it.

April 14-17, 2007---blank books

when i was in high school and college, i had an insatiable fetish for blank notebooks. thing was, i actually wrote in lots of them. i wrote poetry, lists, stories, journalling.... but i don't do as much of that anymore. and these four notebooks aren't really my style any more, so, i'm passing them along to the next mad scribbler.

April 13, 2007--pencil pack

i bought this set of pencils in a matching box when i went to england for a summer in high school. they're made in china, so there's nothing intrinsically british about them. they don't have erasers. i haven't used any yet, so... what are the odds that i will eventually? meh.

April 12, 2007--free stencil

martha stewart likes to send these "free stencils!" along with the pleas to buy her magazine and i tend to keep them, but WHY? i'm pretty much never going to use them. and they're always the same design.

April 11, 2007--duvet

i bought this duvet at a thrift store in tulsa on a shopping trip with my favorite thrifting cousin. she was jealous that i'd found it first. now, it's not really my style and i don't need to keep it.

April 10, 2007--egg slicer

stupid, stupid design. who makes an egg slicer where the wires don't even go past the bottom of the egg? i finally wised up and bought a new one (that's really cute AND works AND was cheap!).

April 7, 8, 9, 2007--mops

i hate mopping. i really do. and i have a very large kitchen/dining area to mop. a few weeks ago, i purchased the "o mop" system from method at target. it includes a washable, absorbent cloth that velcro's to the mop's head and you squirt floor cleaner onto the floor, then mop it up. when you're done, you throw the cloth into the laundry. i can live with that. a lot less wasteful than the swiffer mops or any of that family of knock-off's. so, here are the past three mop contenders i've had at my house. i'm getting rid of all of them. i'm not sure yet if the o-mop is the perfect mop for me, but i like it better than any of these three!

April 6, 2007--rag rug

I think this cost me... maybe $1? maybe less? i bought it because it was cheap and kind of cute. but now that it's been washed a few times, it's gotten stringy. and much less cute. and the other day i looked at it and realized that it wasn't adding any beauty to my house and that it must go.

April 5, 2007--pretty lunchbox

i really like this lunchbox, but the lining is tearing. since i bring my lunch to work pretty much every day, i don't feel too guilty about spending $7 to buy a new lunchbox every 2 years or so.

April 3 & 4, 2007--denim things

here is a denim shirt that was my very favorite for a long time, but now i have a new one that's more fitted and i probably won't even miss this one. the skirt is one that i got at the dig-n-save and was so excited when i realized that the broken zipper was easily fixable, but then i tried it on once to show my sister and she said it was a "hoe-down" skirt and now that she's said that, i can't look at the skirt without thinking that i look like a cowgirl. and i'm not a cowgirl. and then i found a cuter, much more simple denim skirt.

April 2, 2007--something gray from victoria's secret

i won't make you look at a photo of this one. it's a normal piece of under-clothing (not particularly sexy--it's grey, like a t-shirt) that is relatively comfortable except that the straps are always falling down--no matter how tight i have them. so, this one is out the door.

April 1, 2007--Power Yoga video

A very good friend gave this video to me a few years ago with the stipulation that if i didn't really want it, i should give it back to her (only a TRUE friend can say things like that and get away with it!). after not even opening the wrapping for the last 5 years, i decided i should probably follow her advice and give it back (for me, the words "power" and "yoga" are an oxymoron--i do yoga to relaaaaax.). so, when she visited recently, i returned the video to her. she didn't remember it.