This is really an ANTI-sentimental topic, but this the the forum where my question most seemed to fit. I just tossed out a 1998 Compton's Encyclopedia on CD-ROM. Yeah, we have this thing called 'Wikipedia' now...
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Yesterday I tossed a very big book. It was about 5 inches think, called the Volume Library from Readers Digest. My parents bought for us when we were kids. Think of a stripped down version of a set of encyclopedias in one book. I kept it because it was good for pressing flowers, which I did once. I passed on it the other night thinking, "I might want to press flowers again", but the next morning I realized I was kidding myself.
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I went through my Christmas stuff and rather ruthlessly got rid of 6 bags. I freecycled them to someone who wants to use them to help decorate a nursing home. Cool. Nothing could be more useless than an ugly Christmas ornament.
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In my recent Goodwill bag (though what they will do with it, I wonder) was a holder? stand? basket? for wine bottles. It was made from some faux stainless steel frame with bamboo slats, shaped like an oval "boat"? It is complex and difficult to describe. HA. I won it as a door prize and of course kept the two bottles of wine which were awkwardly installed. I have a nice large winerack which holds my stock of wine, but even if I didn't, the bottles would look better, take up a lot less room, and be more stable standing on the counter or sideboard without that rack thingy.
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A clutch.. I LOVE the way it looks however my pens always fell out of it which made it worthless to use! You live and you learn..
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Brand new, unopened 'do it yourself' kit for a Will and credit repair. We had an attorney do our Wills and my credit is fine.
Just when I think I'm uncluttered, I find something like this!
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A carabiner...key ring. You can't use it for climbing. what's the point in that?!
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@sesberrry - I have a very small carabiner keyring which I use to attach my regular keyring to the strap of a shopping bag or tote - anything where the keys would fall to the bottom and be a pain to retrieve.
The most useless thing - a copy of Windows 98 for Dummies! I thought I had cleaned out all the old software and manuals, etc but this was lurking under a pile of DH's stuff.
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pkilman: and I put into the Goodwill bucket a copy of Windows 98! Maybe the recipients of both will link up somehow . . .
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About 25 of my deceased grandmother's nursing journals from the 1970's. I do not save hard copies of any journals for myself and I have been storing these relics in the attic for years! I have to admit to keeping her yellow- from-age nurses cap:)
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Gee, can we do this by the week - I've come a long way, but I'm still tossing useless things!
An interesting big round wooden box that looks like it's meant to hold a wheel of cheese. I bought it second hand years ago because it was such an interesting piece. I swore I was going to paint over the silk screened "Zingerman's" label and find something really fun to do with it. It's still not painted and still empty and I still can't think of what I'd like to do with it. I even moved it and still didn't find a use for it in my new place. OUT!
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I tossed a handful of half-melted, totally bent-up, ugly, multicolored birthday candles out of the kitchen junk drawer. They had come out of their tattered carton years ago. I really must keep up on that drawer regularly. It's a catch-all for things that are Lost.In.Space.and.Do.Not.Ever.Get.Put.Away.By.Anyone.
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7, really, 7, single duvet inners without covers that smelled like dog and were so flat they no longer did the job of keeping anyone warm. I re-de-cluttered my linen stash and most things in there left the house since the regular bedding had long since been moved to individual rooms. I'm not sure why I was hanging onto this stuff, maybe because it was hidden
I did save a tri-pillow but now I have 4 empty drawers :D
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I wouldn't say I tossed this it was more of a case of finding some other pour sucker who wanted it in Freecycle. The item was a box of baseball cards. Glad to see the back of them I was. They are the biggest waste of space and money under the sun.
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A genuine Arawak Indian blowpipe from Borneo. Not a lot of use in Wimbledon.
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@susanintexas - if you find the person, send them my way. I serial have a huge heavy old monitor that needs a home. No takers on Freecycle or Craigslist, so I'm waiting for the landfill's next dump-your-old-computer- equipment day to be rid of the thing.
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Sorted my clothes and found some underwear 'age 11'. I'm 17...
As for the carabiner keyring, I use one of those when I'm at work - I put my stuff in a locker, and my trousers don't have pockets, so I put the carabiner on a belt loop and clip the keys onto it. Unfortunately I'm a cashier and the keys are always getting stuck to the magnetic thing we use for getting the security tags off but hey, what can you do...
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Boxing peanuts, heavy brown boxes that were compiled together. Oh yes, a ton of paperwork from my years of being a District Supervisor, just no need for that stuff.
What I did keep was my old handbook from years ago, from TERRAP, a group I attended for months to help with agoraphobia and panic attacks. I don't read it, since if you are depressed, or anxious it would possibly bring on those old feelings, instead, its placed in a drawer of my accomplishments. Done!
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i pulled out a wicker basket that houses the juicer.
i was getting the juicer cleaned and checked and ready for it's new owner.also in the basket (i use these as drawers for my food storage plastic containers and glass jars) was a bit of unidentifiable metal, a sort of bracket thing....plus a never-used attachment for holding a bamix on a wall.
OUT into the recycler.now i've got a whole clean empty wicker basket.
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A knife, a really crappy one.
I got this rambo style knife when I was younger, the blade is bolted into the handle. The thing looks impressive but I knew it was junk even before I knew anything about knives. I sold it. The thing is useless by design, will likely break when you try to do any sort of batoning.
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